Dig It! Garden Blog

Entrance Walk: Aesculus x carnea ‘Ft. McNair’ – red horse chestnut Benthamidia japonica var. chinensis ‘Samzam’ – Japanese dogwood Calycanthus ‘Aphrodite’ – sweetshrub Calycanthus x raulstonii ‘Hartlage Wine’ – sweetshrub Chionanthus virginicus – fringetree Hydrangea…

Entrance Walk: Aesculus x carnea ‘Ft. McNair’ – red horse chestnut Amsonia ciliata ‘Spring Sky’ – blue star Calycanthus x raulstonii ‘Hartlage Wine’ – sweetshrub Syringa x prestoniae ‘Donald Wyman’ – lilac Viburnum plicatum forma…

Hydrangea paniculata ‘Limelight’ is spectacular! These are at the Norweb Entrance Garden. – Sharmon, director of horticulture Pennisteum ‘Fireworks’ certainly is putting on a show this time of year! This annual grass makes a great…

I love this ‘American Dawn’ Dahlia! Find it on the steps leading up to and scattered around the Cleaver Event Lawn. – Anna, horticulturist Sagittarius latifolia (Common Arrowhead) is beautiful in the Slater Forest Pond….

A reliable perennial I would recommend to any gardener with sun and space is Thalictrum rochebruneanum, also called Meadow Rue. This statuesque plant gets to be over 7 feet tall and it topped with a…

Origanum ‘Kent Beauty’ ornamental oregano…the sweetly nodding pink bracts look great in the container leading up the steps to the Cleaver Event Lawn. – Anna, Horticulturist Shout Out! To this perfect perennial! Crocosmia ‘George Davidson’…

The Gardens has a lot of volunteers, and an important group among them are our volunteer pollinators. Honey bees are a key pollinator that we depend on. We maintain a small apiary – a fancy…

Staff Picks These lovely water lilies (Nymphea hardy water lily) in the children’s garden remind me of being young and catching frogs in the pond. – Tina, IT Coordinator Now that we’re open until 6pm…