What a great place to spend an afternoon! The nearby North Carolina Botanical Garden (NCBG) is a lovely public garden, a conservation garden full of native plants. Many wildflowers were blooming today throughout the habitat gardens. Especially beautiful were the paths lined with Eastern Blue Phlox and Golden Ragwort.
Phlox divaricata (Eastern Blue Phlox) and Packera aurea (Golden Ragwort)
The restored cabin of playwright Paul Green and a storytelling area are features that add to the garden’s charm. From trilliums in the Mountain Habitat to the Christmas fern against a mossy rock and cedar knees rising out of water in the Coastal Plain and Sandhills Habitats, the garden was full of interesting vignettes.
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- Chrysogonum virginianum (Green and Gold)
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- Taxodium ascendens (Pond-cypress)
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- Taxodium ascendens (Pond-cypress)
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- Taxodium ascendens (Pond-cypress)
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- Polystichum acrostichoides (Christmas fern)
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- The Storyteller’s Chair
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- Seating Area For Storytelling
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- Paul Green Cabin
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- Aesculus pavia (Red Buckeye)
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- White Bluebell
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- Trillium cuneatum (Little Sweet Betsy)
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- Trillium cuneatum (Little Sweet Betsy)
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- Trillium cuneatum (Little Sweet Betsy)
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- Phlox divaricata (Eastern Blue Phlox) and Packera aurea (Golden Ragwort)
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- Halesia carolina (Carolina Silverbell)
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- Osmanthus americanus (Devilwood)
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- Zanthoxylum clava-herculis (Hercules’-club)
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- Zanthoxylum clava-herculis (Hercules’-club)
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- Phlox divaricata (Eastern Blue Phlox)
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- Rhododendron austrinum (Florida Azalea) and Phlox divaricata (Eastern Blue Phlox)
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- Gelsemium sempervirens (Carolina jessamine)
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What a wonderful place! Trilliums are unreal. We love them but haven’t enough shade here for them. We are waiting for our trees to grow to cast more shade so that we can grow lots of all sorts of Trillium.
This is my first year to see them in bloom. Fleeting beauties!