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Supporting Sustainable Living: Part One
PA native bloody butcher (attractive common name!), Trillium recurvatum, is just forming its buds now and will produce its beautiful flower shortly (photo on right Arrowhead Alpines). All photos in...
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Your Native Woodland: If You Build It They Will Come
Virginia bluebells and Celandine poppy in my woodland Well you might have to plant a few first. What am I talking about? How to create your very own woodland filled with native plants. I have...
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Native Plants 2013
This photo is one of my favorite shots of my native woodland which has huge swathes of some of the native plants that are particularly good spreaders, including Virginia bluebells, Mertensia virginica,...
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Early Spring Ephemerals Light Up the Garden
Corydalis solida comes in many colors: in the right corner is ‘Purple Bird’, in the middle is pink ‘Beth Evans’, and in the left corner is brick red ‘George P. Baker’. As the hellebores bloom in my...
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Pleasurable Pairings for Spring Part 2
Native Virginia bluebells, Mertensia virginica, and native Celandine poppies, Stylophorum diphyllum, are two of my favorite plants for spring and are wonderful combined with almost anything. Very easy...
View ArticleOur Woodland is Glorious
A native white redbud underplanted with natives Virginia bluebells, May apples, and golden groundsel. This is one of my favorites times of the year: our woodland is at its peak and epimediums and...
View ArticleWhat’s Up at Carolyn’s Shade Gardens?
Just a few days ago our woodland was empty, but now it is filled with flowers. We think that the winter garden at our nursery is gorgeous. But it is still sparse with lots of empty patches of brown...
View ArticleA Beautiful Tapestry
the view from our deck right now The ground never froze during our incredibly warm winter here at Carolyn’s Shade Gardens. All our plants are blooming early and, due to the cool weather we are...
View ArticleNative Plants in Bloom Part 1
Our woodland is spectacular right now. Here, ‘Royal White’ redbud, Cercis canadensis, underplanted with golden groundsel, Senecio (Packera) aureus. More and more of our customers are becoming...
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