My annual June visit to Dancing Oaks Nursery

This is the third year I've made the trip to Dancing Oaks Nursery in late June. I'd love to visit more often, but since they're an hour and a half away that just doesn't happen. Nearing the parking area I was thinking I'd walk the display garden first, before exploring the sales area. Ha, who was I kidding? Shopping always comes first...

I know I've heard of people feeding banana peels to plants, but this method looks a little suspect?

Pteris vittata 'Benzilan', still with it's Plant Delights tag.

Such a cool fern.

I have a couple I picked up at Raintree Tropical a few years back, if that is indeed what mine are. They were sold to me as greenhouse weeds (having popped up in other plant pots).

Pyrrosia lingua 'Variegata'

These (and most of the plant pics I took) were in this greenhouse, Jurassic Park.

Begonia macrantha (be sure to click on that link to see the size of the leaves on the plant in the wild).

Sonchus canariensis, tree dandelion

A large part of Jurassic Park includes plants that are not available for purchase...

Oxalis lasiandra, palm tree oxalis

Centaurothamnus maximus, Arabian shrub cornflower (I liked the leaves).

Volunteer ferns are always a happy occurrence, I assume the nursery folks feel the same since they've left them in place.

Itty bitty baby Cliffords! Clifford being the name of my big-leaf magnolia, Magnolia macrophylla.

Walking the garden now and starting with one of my favorite features, the tropical plantings with planted up water-dripping pedestals.

Lobelia tupa

The dry garden.

Dierama pulcherrimum

Tuberose (Polianthes tuberosa)! I haven't smelled tuberose in years, so good!

I remember these as purple, but they don't look so purple in my photos.

There's an agave in there somewhere...

Okay, time to pay for my plants and start the drive home.

Here's my haul...

I made a couple of stops on the way down to Dancing Oaks, this Yucca linearifolia came from N&M Nursery, only $15!

Aloe aristata

...and this NoID aloe came from S&K Nursery in Woodburn.

Which brings me to my two Dancing Oaks purchases, first; Androsace sarmentosa, or so it was labeled. When I look that plant up on the DO website it doesn't look quite right. Hmm?

And second, Pyrrosia lingua 'Tachiba Koryu'. I have a plant I purchased as Pyrrsoia linqua 'Dragon's Tail', which I've always thought was 'Tachiba Koryu', but now I have it for sure. And those wavy margins are extra special fabulous!

The Bit at the End

Since I saw a Plant Delights label at Dancing Oaks I'm guessing the DO folks won't be offended if I link to the PD Juniper Level Botanic Garden newsletter to share a fabulous fern; "Lepisorus palmatopedatus, which translates in to palm-foot, scaly-sori fern" so cool!

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