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08/22 Restocked and New Plants

caterpillar on pink swamp milkweed

Well, got some cool native plants restocked for you this week, and on Friday, August 28th I’m getting a big order delivered to me from my fav native supplier.

Here’s what we got this week. Click on the highlighted plant name to be taken to its Garden Shop page to learn more about it and to place your order.

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Plant Delivery, Part One

Redring Milkweed pic courtesy of James C Baugh

Y’all. I’m so excited I can’t stand it. On Friday I got that big plant delivery I’ve been telling you about. The plants are gorgeous!! In between rain showers today I was able to take two videos of them. Here is part one. I’ll do part two in a separate post.

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May Plant Delivery Post

Smooth Hydrangea

Hello from me and Ziva!

A few days ago in a post called Coming Soon To Your Favorite Native Garden Shop I talked about the plants my suppliers are growing for me. Well, one supplier let me know today that a large part of my order is ready to go! Yay! Usually I pick up orders from my suppliers, but this order is way too big to fit in my truck so it is being delivered to me. I don’t have a specific delivery day yet, but it will be about the middle of May, which is only a couple of weeks away. I went ahead and updated the inventory of the plants coming in on that delivery. That means you can go ahead and place your order for them. But please keep in mind that delivery of them to you is 2 – 3 weeks out. You will get email updates of your delivery day when I get them in stock. I made a note on the description pages for all those plants repeating what I just said here because I don’t want y’all to be surprised that your order might take longer to get to you than normal.

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Milkweed, Caterpillars, and Pop Quiz

Monarch butterfly (pic courtesy of UNC Chapel Hill)

Was doing a walkabout through Bella’s area the other day enjoying all the birds, butterflies, and bugs that were hanging out with the flowers and foliage. I noticed that the Asclepias incarnata, Pink Swamp Milkweed, was looking bare of their leaves so I walked over to check it out. Three days. Three days was all it took for the caterpillars to eat almost all the leaves on the 15 plants I have in stock. Was I mad? Nope, because giving the cats the food they need is why we grow native milkweed.

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03/07 Plant Pick Up Post

Styrax americanus blooms, pic courtesy of Gerald Klingaman

How amazingly beautiful has our weather been lately!! I hope your garden has been getting some of the lovely rain.

Well, Ziva and I are busy busy with deliveries and with pick ups from our awesome native suppliers. Here’s what we’re getting in stock this week.

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