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To Plant Delights Nursery

A Passion for Perennial Plants
and the Gardeners who Love Them
Since 1988, Plant Delights Nursery has been the choice of serious gardeners and plant collectors looking for the best and rarest perennial plants. We are pleased to have received the Perennial Plant Association Retail Award in 2011, the American Horticulture Society Commercial Award in 2002, and to have been selected as one of the Best Mail Order Plant Sources - Garden Design Magazine 2010. Welcome to our family of plant lovers!
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Our Mission

Plant Delights Nursery is a retail mail order nursery that serves as the public face of Juniper Level Botanic Garden. Our mission is to discover, study, select, preserve, and make available new hardy perennial plants for both shade gardens and sun gardens around the world. Since 1994, we have taken over 65 botanical expeditions and sponsored many more, both domestic and worldwide in our quest for great new plants. While we offer over 1600 different perennials at any one time, this represents only about 10% of our living plant collections.

Our other mission is to expand the base of knowledge about perennial plants through our talks, as well as our gardening articles and botanical expedition logs posted on our website. In our role as the Mythbusters of Gardening, we strive to study these plant genera and sort out much of the nomenclatural and horticultural mis-information that persists in the literature. To encourage a reduction of wild harvest of rare plants for commercial production and to promote habitat preservation, we also have a special dedication to grow and propagate rare and endangered US native wildflowers.

We have several perennial plant genera in which we specialize, most of which we have one of the top collections in the world. These specialty groups include Agave (Century Plant), Amorphophallus (Voodoo Lily), Arisaema (Jack in the Pulpit), Arum (Arum Lily), Asarum (Wild Ginger), Asparagus (Asparagus Fern), Aspidistra (Cast Iron Plant), Baptisia (Redneck Lupine), Buddleia (Butterfly Bush), Carex (Sedge), Colocasia (Elephant Ears), Crinum (Crinum Lily), Disporum (Solomon’s Seal), Disporopsis (Evergreen Solomon’s Seal), Epimedium (Fairy Wings), Farfugium (Leopard Plant), Hardy Ferns, Hedychium (Ginger Lily), Helleborus (Hellebores or Lenten Rose), Hibiscus (Hardy Mallow), Hosta (Plantain Lily), Hymenocallis (Surprise Lily), Liriope (Monkey Grass), Lycoris (Surprise Lily), Ophiopogon (Mondo Grass), Polygonatum (Solomon’s Seal), Salvia (Perennial Sages), Sinningia (Hardy Gloxinia), Smilacina (False Solomon’s Seal), Tricyrtis (Toad Lily), Trillium (Toadshade), Yucca (Yucca Lily), Zephyranthes (Rain Lilies).

Other secondary specialty groups include Agapanthus (Lily-of-the-Nile), Alocasia (Upright Elephant Ears), Alstroemeria (Princess Lilies), Canna (Canna Lilies), Bambusa, Borinda, and Fargesia (Clumping Bamboo), Sabal, Trachycarpus, Butia, Chamaerops, Rhapidophyllum (Cold Hardy Palms), Curcuma (Pine Cone Gingers), Dasylirion (Sotol), Echinacea (Coneflower), Eucomis (Pineapple Lilies), Habranthus (Rain Lilies), Cypripedium, Calanthe, Bletilla (Hardy Orchids), Heuchera (Coral Bells), Iris species (Hardy Iris), Kniphofia (Red Hot Poker), Musa (Hardy Banana Trees), Arundo, Miscanthus, Muhlenbergia, Panicum, Pennisetum, Saccharum, Sporobolus (Ornamental Grasses), and Sarracenia (Pitcher Plants)

Plant Delights is also known worldwide for our work with hostas. Between 1990 and 2011, we introduced over 91 new hosta cultivars to the market, most of which came from our own crosses. Our hosta breeding program, focused on unique, vigorous, and garden-worthy selections has yielded many groundbreaking introductions including Hosta ‘Elvis Lives’, ‘White Wall Tire’, ‘Outhouse Delight’, ‘Zebra Stripes’, ‘Carolina Sunshine’, ‘Dixie Chick’, ‘Squash Casserole’, and ‘Tattoo’. Our breeding work continues and we look forward to many unique new hostas in the coming years.

Weekly Plant Articles

Bring Beauty to Shaded Areas with Hosta Plants from Plant Delights Nursery, Inc.

[Posted on February 20]

Hosta plants are perennials that will grow in slightly shaded areas. This means that if you have structures blocking sunlight from your planting area, hostas give you the perfect way to add beauty to those areas. They are commonly chosen for planting around decks, porches and trees and make excellent choices for anywhere you do not have many hours of sunlight each day. Plant Delights Nursery, Inc. provides a wide variety of high performing hosta plants as well as various other perennial plants and flowers to help you to grow the perfect garden area.

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	Perennial plants Perennial plants are plants that will return each year, unless you are successful in killing them...that's where we can help. Perennials can be grown in the shade, partial shade or in the sun, in other words, something for every garden and for every level of gardener. Plant Delights Nursery, Inc. has perennial plants in all shapes, sizes, colors, and textures. Whether you want hostas, ferns, solomon's seals, woody perennials or any other kind of perennial plant, Plant Delights Nursery, Inc. has something for you. For more information: Perennial plants
	Elephant ears Elephant ears are plants that grow wild in tropical and sub-tropical locations, where they are usually cultivated for food. Most varieties grow extremely well in full sunlight, unless the area is hot with low humidity, while a few types always prefer light shade. Plant Delight Nursery, Inc. offers the best elephant ears plants available anywhere on the market. We have worked closely with Dr. John Cho, retired from the University of Hawaii Experiment Station in Maui, to create and bring you a new Royal Hawaiian series of elephant ear hybrids. You can also find an elephant ears plant that suits you from the Plant Delights' selection of perennial plants. For more information: Elephant ears
	Hostas If you are looking to add some foliage color and/or fragrance to your garden, consider fragrant hostas from Plant Delights Nursery, Inc. Plant Delights specializes in perennial plants such as hostas and select only the best introductions from the top plant breeders around the world. We think we grow some of the finest quality and also offer one of the best selection of these Asian natives for plant collectors. In addition, our container-grown plants are mostly multi-division specimens (depending on the variety's genetic potential to offset). For more information: Hostas
	Shade plants While some plants flourish well in the sun, shade plants either do not need a lot of sun or in some cases, any sun at all. If you want perennial plants that thrive in the shade, come to Plant Delights Nursery, Inc. Being one of our specialties, we have a huge offering of shade plants, ranging from hostas to epimediums to hardy garden ferns, and much more. In addition, our knowledgeable staff is ready to answer your perennial plant questions, so you get the right plant for your garden. For more information: Shade plants

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