Happy September! The gardens are full of blooming perennials and we are switching many of our annual display beds to mums this month! We've got lots of great garden events coming onsite this fall! The butterflies are back in action and the bees are busy buzzing on all their favorite flowers. The Stanly Garden is a great place to find them on the Balloon Milkweed and Pentas! There are vegetables aplenty in the kitchen garden with lots of interesting heirloom varieties and many fruits on the way! The Wilderness Garden provides a great shady spot to enjoy a breeze off the Trent River between your other more formal garden stops in the Latham and Kellenberger Gardens. You can book a private tour with a few of your friends and fellow gardeners by contacting 252-639-3524 or reservations@tryonpalace.org.
Tryon Palace will host the September Garden Lecture, Saturday September 17, 2022, “Tough Plants of ENC & Trade Specials”, featuring Jennifer Knight, community gardener and owner of Knightscapes Enterprises, a design/ build landscape firm, and Hadley Cheris, Tryon Palace Gardens and Greenhouse Manager”. This garden lecture will focus on plants best adapted to face the weather challenges of Eastern North Carolina with a sneak peek of the plants available at the Tryon Palace Fall Plant Sale. This lecture begins at 10:30 a.m. in Cullman Performance Hall at the North Carolina History Center. Suggested donation $3.
Dont forget- Fall Plant Sale is October 7 &8, 2022 from 9am-5pm each day! The gardens will also be open free all weekend.
If you’re looking for an outside hobby and way to give back to your community, consider joining us as a garden volunteer! We are looking for Master Gardeners, Horticulturists, Garden Enthusiasts, General Yard Workers, and Carpenters. Some background in gardening is great but none is necessary, just a willingness to learn. We are looking for volunteers for pruning, planting, raking, mulching, watering, weeding, fence and trellis repair. If that sounds like your cup of tea, please contact me at hadley.cheris@ncdcr.gov.
We hope to see you soon! Happy Gardening,
Hadley Cheris, Tryon Palace Gardens and Greenhouse Manager
Annuals
- Annual Phlox (Phlox drummondii) mix
- Artemisia Sea Salt
- Banana ‘Musa’
- Basil, multiple varieties- lavender, white, dark purple
- Cardinal Basil- massive purple flower heads
- Batchelor’s Buttons (Centaurea cyanus) blue
- Begonias Tophat White with Green Leaf’
- California Poppy (Escholzia californica) yellow, white, orange
- Celosia ‘Century Mix’
- Cleome ‘Clio Magenta’
- Cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus) orange, yellow, pinks
- Cuphea ignea ‘Hummingbird's Lunch’ yellow and pink trumpets
- Cuphea ‘Sriacha Rose’; FloriGlory Diana; Dynamite, ‘Pink Shimmer’
- Dianthus- Super Parfait Raspberry, Zing Rose
- Dusty Miller ‘Silver Dust’
- Euphorbia "Starblast Snowdrift"
- Flowering Tobacco (Nicotiana sp) various
- Gazania ‘Tiger Mix’, ‘Pink Shades’, ‘Colorado’, ‘Sunny Side Up’, ‘New Magic’, ‘New Day Yellow’, ‘Enorma Mix’
- Gerbera ‘Revolution Mix Select’, ‘Floriline Maxi Mix’
- Hibiscus ‘Mahogany Splendor’
- Johnny-jump-up (Viola tricolor) purple and yellow
- Love Lies Bleeding (Amaranthus caudatus)- burgundy
- Marigolds- Endurance Orange; assorted yellows, reds, oranges
- Mexican Sunflower (Tithonia)- Orange
- Pennisetum Fireworks- purple blades
- Pentas- Butterfly Mix, Graffiti 2020 White, Glitterati Purple Star, Glitterati Red Star
- Portulaca- ColorBlast: Double Guava, Double Magenta,Watermelon Punch
- Rhoeo Tricolor
- Salvia farinacea ‘Evolution Violet Blue’
- Snapdragons (Antirrhinum majus) various
- Sunflowers (Helianthus sp.) various colors of yellow and red
- Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomea) ‘Flora Mia Cameo’
- Sweet William (Dianthus) Jolt Pink Magic; Telstar Mix; red, white, pink
- Torenia ‘Kauai Rose’
- Vinca- Cora: ‘XDR Mix’, ‘XDR White’, ‘XDR Hotgenta’, ‘XDR Magenta Halo’, ‘XDR Polka Dot’
- Zinnias- multiple varieties
Perennials
- Asters (Aster frickarti & Symphyotrichum sp ) blue, pink
- Balloon Flower (Platycodon grandiflorus) blue, pink, white
- Balloon Milkweed (Asclepias physocarpus) white
- Bachelor’s Button (Centaurea montana) blue
- Barrenwort (Epimedium grandiflorum) yellow
- Bath’s Pink (Dianthus gratianopolitanus) pink
- Bee Balm (Monarda didyma) red
- Spotted Bee Balm (Monarda punctata) yellowish, purple-spotted
- Betony “Hummelo” purple
- Black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia hirta) yellow
- Blanket Flower (Gaillardia puchella) red + yellow
- Bleeding Heart (Dicentra eximia) pink/white
- Bluebeard (Caryopteris x clandonensis Gold Crest) Gold foliage, blue blooms
- Bog Sage (Salvia uliginosa) light blue
- Bronze Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) yellow
- Bugleweed (Ajuga reptans) blue
- Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa) yellow,orange ***May have Monarch Caterpillars***
- Callirhoe/ Purple Poppy Mallow
- Cape Leadwort (Plumbago capensis) blue
- Carnation (Dianthus sp.) various
- Carolina Lupine (Thermopsis villosa) yellow
- Catchfly (Silene carolinianum) pink
- Catmint (Nepeta faassenii) blue, pink
- Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) & (Aquilegia vulgare) white seed spurs
- Comfrey (Symphytum officinale) white, pink, blue
- Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) various
- Confederate Rose (Hibiscus mutabilis) white to pink; light pink to dark pink
- Coral Bells (Heuchera sp.) variety of leaf colors, blooms white or pink
- Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia numularia) yellow foliage
- Cup Plant (Silphium) yellow
- Daisy, Ox-Eye (Leucanthemum vulgare); Shasta (Chrysanthemum X superbum) white
- False Sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides) yellow
- Fleabane (Erigeron sp) white
- Four o’clocks (Mirabilis jalapa) fuschia, yellow, pinks
- Garden Phlox (Phlox paniculata)- ‘David’- white; ‘Eva Cullum’–pink
- Garlic Chives (Allium tuberosum) white
- Gaura (Gaura lindheimeri ‘Whirling Butterflies’ & ‘Sparkle White’) pink, white
- Gayfeathers (Liatris spicata) purple
- Giant Coneflower (Rudbeckia maxima) yellow
- Green-headed Coneflower (Rudbeckia lacinata) yellow
- Hosta sp.- white, lavendar
- Hyssop (Agastache sp.) blue, warm colors
- Indigofera kirilowii purple
- Ironweed (Vernonia noveboracenis) purple
- Joe-Pye Weed (Eupatorium purpureum) purple, white seed heads
- Lantana sp- yellow, orange, red
- Lenten Rose (Helleborus X orientalis) green
- Lion’s Ear (Leonotus leonurus) orange
- Liriope sp. blue
- Lisianthus 'Voyage Pink' pink
- Lisianthus 'Voyage Champagne' pale yellow
- (Lithodrora diffusa) blue
- Lungwort (Pulmonaria saccharata) blue
- Maltese cross (Lychnis chalcedonica) red
- Mealycup Sage (Salvia farinacea) blue
- Mexican Hat (Ratibida columnifera) yellow/brown
- Hairy Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum pilosum)
- Narrow Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum tenuifolium)
- Obedient Plant (Physotegia virginiana) white, purple
- Pink Mallow (Malva moschata) pink
- Rose Campion (Lychnis coronaria) pink or white
- Rose mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos) pink
- Rue (Ruta graveolens) chartreuse
- Salvia (Salvia microphylla ‘Hot Lips’) red & white & (Salvia greggii) red, pink
- Scented geraniums-small pink, lavender flowers
- Sedum (Sedum X) yellow, pink
- Shasta daisy (Chrysanthemum X superbum) white
- Soapwort (Saponaria ocymoides) pink
- Spotted Dead Nettle (Lanium macultum) variegated foliage
- Stokes’ Aster (Stokesia laevis) blue, purple, white, yellow
- Sweet Box (Sarcocca confusa) – white fragrant
- Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus) red, white, pink
- Tatarian Aster (Aster tartaricus) blue
- Texas Star or Rose Mallow (Hibiscus coccineus) red
- Tickseed (Coreopsis lanceolata) yellow
- Tropical Milkweed (Asclepias curassavica) red, yellow, orange
- Valerian (Centranthus ruber) red
- Vervain (Verbena bonariensis) purple
- Vinca (Vinca minor) blue
- Viper’s Bugloss (Echium vulgare) blue & Viper’s Bugloss (Echium tuberculatum) pink
- Virginia Spiderwort (Tradescantia virginiana) blue, purple, pink, white
- Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) purple
- Wild Geranium (Geranium pratense) magenta
- Yarrow (Achillea sp.) white, pastels
Bulbs, Corms, Rhizomes
- Asiatic Lilies (Lilium sp.) reds, yellows, orange, pink
- Blackberry Lily (Iris domestica) orange speckled, with blackberry like seed pods
- Crinum lily-pink, white
- Crocosmia- red, orange, yellow
- Daylilies (Hemerocallis sp:): ‘Happy Returns’ yellow; ‘Stella d’ Oro’ yellow-orange; ‘Pardon Me’ wine w/yellow throat; ‘Prairie Blue Eyes’ lavender; variety of reds, yellows, oranges, pinks
- Elephant Ear (Colocasia) ‘Black Coral’, ‘Hawaiian Punch’
- Fall Crocus (Colchicum sp.) Pink
- Formosa lily (Lilium formosum) white
- Ginger Lily (Hedychium coronarium) white, yellow, orange FRAGRANT
- Gloriosa Lily (Gloriosa superba) yellow, red
- Iris:
• Bearded Iris “Immortality” white, reblooming
• Variegated Japanese Iris (Iris ensata) variegated green and white foliage, purple bloom
- Naked Ladies or Surprise Lily (Lycoris squamigeria ) pink sans foliage
- New Bern Lily or Hurricane Lily (Lycoris radiata) red
- Oriental Lily (Lilium oriental ‘Rubrum’)
- Pineapple Lily (Eucomis comosa ‘Sparkling Burgundy’) - burgundy
- Pink Rain Lily (Habranthus robustus) pink
- Rain Lily (Zephyranthes sp.) pink, white
- Solomon’s Seal (Polygonatum biflorum or P. multiflorum) variegated foliage, white blooms
- White Spider Lily (Lycoris albiflora) white
- Tiger Lily (Lilium sp.) orange & black
- Toad Lily (Tricyrtis hirta, Tricyrtis sp. ) pink, purple, blue
- Variegated Shell Ginger (Alpinia zerumbet)
Vines
- Clematis (Clematis sp.) purple, white, lavendar
- Sweet Autumn Clematis (Clematis terniflora) white
- Coral Honeysuckle (Lonicera sumpervirens) native, red and yellow
- Crossvine (Bignonia capreolata) orange
- Trumpet Vine (Campsis grandiflora) orange
- Vinca (Vinca minor) blue
Roses
- Drift Roses (Rosa 'Meigalpio')
- Knock out Roses (Rosa ‘RADrazz’)
- Old Blush Rose (Rosa chinensis) pink
- Heirloom Roses: ‘Safrano’ – yellow; ‘Marie Van Houtte’ – white; ‘Duchess de Brabant’ – pink; ‘Perles des Jardin’ – yellow; ‘Crème la Cerumois Superior’ – red; ‘Souvenir de la Mal Maison’ – light pink; ‘Champney’s Pink Cluster’ – light pink; ‘Dark Lady’ – deep red;
- David Austin- "New Dawn" -- light pink climber
Trees and Shrubs
- Glossy Abelia (Abelia grandiflora) pink, white
- Anise Tree (Illicium floridanum) reddish
- Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) pink
- Bush Clover (Lespedeza sp.) fuschia pink
- Butterfly Bush (Buddleia davidii) purple, pink, white
- Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) white
- Chaste Tree (Vitex agnus-castus) blue, pink
- Chinese Mahonia (Mahonia fortunei) yellow
- Common Myrtle (Myrtus communis) white
- Crape Myrtles (Lagerstroemia sp) pink, white
- Elderberry (Sambucus sp.) white
- Encore Azaleas (Rhodendron Hybrid) red, fuchsia, white
- False Indigo Bush (Amorpha fruticosa)
- Fringetree (Chinonanthus retusus) blue drupes
- Fragrant Osmanthus (Osmanthus fragrans) yellow, white; FRAGRANT
- Gardenia (Gardenia jasminoides) white, fragrant
- Hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla) blue, pink
- Lacecap Hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla normalis) pink, blue
- Oak-leaf Hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia) white, white to pink to red
- Pawpaw (Asimina triloba) setting fruit
- Pomegranate (Punica granata) coral, orange blooms, fruit
- Red Buckeye (Aesculus pavia) leaves beginning to fall, look for Buckeyes
- Red Chokeberry (Aronia arbutifolia) small white
- Rosemary, (Rosmarinus officinale) white, lavender
- Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus) white with red, pink, purple
- Southern Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora) white, fragrant
- Spanish Bayonet (Yucca aloifolia) white
- Sweetbay Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana) white, slight fragrance
- Turk’s Cap (Malvaviscus arboreus var. drummuondii) red
- Variegated Hydrangea (Hydrangea X) white-pink
- Weiglia (Weiglia florida) pink and white
Kitchen Garden
- Basil, tomatoes, peppers, sweet potatoes, eggplant, okra, heliotrope, beans, garlic, muskmelons, watermelons, roselle, cotton, popcorn, figs, summer squash, patty pan squash, apples, sunflowers, carrots, parsley, Swiss chard, cardoon, strawberries, leeks, onions, mints, oregano, thyme, salad burnet, yarrow, chamomile