Twice a year, Winghaven Gardens in Charlotte has a plant sale. The selections are great; they have a lot of native plants that are hard to find elsewhere, or at least I haven’t been able to find them anywhere around here. Plus the volunteers that work the sale are extremely knowledgeable about southern gardening which is a great help. I still have my midwestern plant favs and must adjust to this climate.
For instance,
me: Where are the fuchsias? Why don’t you people have fuchsias? They are my favorite annual!
plant lady: Fuchsias would fry in about 5 minutes in this place – WAY too hot!
I also usually get carried away and buy a whole carload of stuff, then I get home and the realization sinks in that I am the one who has to get it in the ground, soI tried some restraint this trip – plus I didn’t have much time yesterday so that helped.
So, my haul looks like this:
I have an ostrich fern Matteuccia strupthiopteris – only one, just to replace one that I planted earlier in the year that fried in the heat of August.
I found two bottlebrush buckeyes Aesculus parviflora – these are natives and are just about my favorites and a carryover from the midwest. In St. Louis these grew like crazy making for some gorgeous layers in woodland gardens.
For the shady areas in the front of my house I found two hostas, three hellebores and another native – a gorgeous Solomon’s seal, Polygonatum.
My newest plant love is the Edgeworthia chrysantha; I was fortunate to enjoy a beautiful garden tour last week and the owner is a real gardening gal. She had some of these and their foliage is absolutely beautiful. However, she says the real drama is in the late winter when the leaves are gone and these fab flowers bloom all over the thing. Can’t wait for that! The common name of this one is paper bush.
I love gardening and cannot get enough plants, therefore this semi-annual plant sale is my day 27 of #100happydays!
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