They’re now open to visitors and researchers by appointment and on select weekends during each season. The garden and adjoining nursery, Plant Delights, were started three decades ago by NCSU graduate Tony Avent and his late wife. Raulston Arboretum if promoters can raise enough of an endowment to fund operations. Nearby you will find greenhouses full of plants during open house weekends that you may purchase.The privately owned, 28-acre Juniper Level Botanic Garden in southern Wake County, renowned among lovers of rare and unusual plants from around the world, will become a satellite to N.C. In the midst of the arbor you will find plants like Autumn Stonecrop, Hypericum calycinum, Agave ovatifolia, Sempervivum, Toothwort, Bartzella Peony, and the Pink Champagne-Epimedium. In this photo, taken in late March, all that can be seen of the Grape plants are the dormant vines reaching up to the arbor and tendrils that reach for the twines and find respite on the next nearby post. Photograph E: Beside the shipping area you will find a Muscadine Grape Vine display with several NC Muscadine varieties.
In the second photo, in mid-April, the Dianthus and other plants are beginning to flower. Dianthus and other sun plants that give the garden four season interest. In the back bed you will find an airy leafed Asparagus densiflorus. To the left you will find the Pink Champagne Epimedium. In the center of the photo you will find the Whale’s tongue Agave. Photograph C-D: The first photo was taken in early March before the grapes leaf out. There are many other sun loving plants intermixed. Here you will see the Hypericum calycinum in the forefront and the Asparagus densiflorus in the back area. Photograph B: This bed, next to the shipping area, is part of the Muscadine beds. The Dianthus blooms are fading as other Perennial plants flower. The Hydrangea blooms are providing interest in the background. Photograph A: The Muscadine bed in Late May is showing life as the Muscadine leaves and tendrils develop. In the midst of the Muscadine beds, you will find Yucca, Variegated Hypericum, and many more lovely plants in raised beds. Walk within the Vitis Arbor that showcases different Muscadines varieties developed for production in North Carolina.
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