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With 8+ acres of public display gardens, JLBG features over 27K taxa of zone 7b cold hardy plants.
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We are open to the public 8 weekends of the year, rain or shine. Established in 1988, Juniper Level Botanic Garden is a research and educational display garden.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juniper_Level_Botanic_Gardens

The mission of the garden is promoting and preserving botanical diversity by bridging the gap between botany and horticulture and exploring the science and philosophy of consciousness, awareness, perception, and nonduality.

10/09/2026

Hemlock-leaf Bristle Fern

On a 2015 visit to Judith Jones', Washington-based Fancy Fronds Nursery, we left with many ferns, including a very lacy plant with a tag of…...

https://www.juniperlevelbotanicgarden.org/hemlock-leaf-bristle-fern/

10/08/2026

Summer Sunshine Swamp Tickseed

Flowering now is the amazing Coreopsis palustris 'Summer Sunshine', an award-winning 2000 Plant Delights/JLBG introduction. Although it's native to swampy forests, from NC south to Florida....

https://www.juniperlevelbotanicgarden.org/summer-sunshine-swamp-tickseed/

10/07/2026

Graceful Hemiboea

Early fall is Hemiboea time in the garden, and the the first to flower this year, is the little-known…...

https://www.juniperlevelbotanicgarden.org/graceful-hemiboea/

10/06/2026

Not Your Grandmothers Zinnia

Most folks think of Zinnias, as an annual bedding plant, but the genus actually includes so much more, including some little-known, North American native perennials....

https://www.juniperlevelbotanicgarden.org/not-your-grandmothers-zinnia/

10/05/2026

Cast Iron Hedge

I can't say that I'd ever thought about using cast iron plants as hedging, but we might need to rethink that with one of new hybrids....

https://www.juniperlevelbotanicgarden.org/cast-iron-hedge/

10/04/2026

Where Nerines Fear to Tread

While we can grow an incredible assortment of lycoris species and cultivars in our climate, the same is not true for their amaryllid cousins in the genus, …...

https://www.juniperlevelbotanicgarden.org/where-nerines-fear-to-tread/

10/03/2026

Weeping Fall Shrub Mint

One of the truly great WHATZAT plants of the fall garden, that results in more questions than anything else is the weeping fall shrub mint, …...

https://www.juniperlevelbotanicgarden.org/weeping-fall-shrub-mint/

10/02/2026

Peek-y Nishiki

For the first time in six year, we will once again have enough Fatsia japonica 'Murakumo Nishiki'...

https://www.juniperlevelbotanicgarden.org/peek-y-nishiki/

10/01/2026

Manettia – a Hummer’s Dream

One of our favorite vines is unquestionably the South American, Brazilian firecracker vine, Manettia cordifolia. This amazing, well-behaved plant doesn't emerge for us until mid-to-late June, but once the temperatures rise, it explodes into a hummingbirds dream....

https://www.juniperlevelbotanicgarden.org/manettia-a-hummers-dream/

09/30/2026

Revision: So, You Think you want to Buy a Nursery

Here is a revised version of this blog with the correct link to Almost Eden's website....

https://www.juniperlevelbotanicgarden.org/revision-so-you-think-you-want-to-buy-a-nursery/

Address

9241 Sauls Road
Raleigh, NC
27603

Telephone

+19197724794

Website

http://www.jlbg.org/, https://www.plantdelights.com/

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