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Red rhodos for late May---

Old hellebore and new hostas--

Early June weather hits hard!

Maidenhair fern--

Gazing glove and red…

This has been a glorious spring for Asheville gardens with so much in bloom we'll probably get spoiled down the line. But for now it's all really great.

And here's a close-up of a tulip poplar bloom that blew from my tree in the earlier wind storm.

---and my garden Buddha patiently waits for…

The past week has seen the blossoming of the Lady Banks rose, unlike any seen in the recent past. I can never remember so many flowers and the bush in my lower garden is bending under the weight of these blooms. Perhaps one of the reasons for success can be traced to the current drought because this rose can withstand long periods of diminished rainfall.

Lady Banks entered the horticultural world at the end of the 1700s laboring graced by the scientific name of Rosa banksiae…

The Danial Stowe Botanical Garden has just opened their new Orchid House with all that such names imply. This is one spectacular place with orchids being but the exclamation points for a collection of tropcial plants and trees that even includes arid succulents and over 14,000 tillandsias or as they're sometimes called, airplants. They have a website and are easy to reach by going down I-26, then east on Rte 74 (towards Charlotte), then turn north on I-85 and exit at New Hope Road and follow…