Tour 28-Acre PLANT COLLECTOR'S Botanic Garden - Ep. 250

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  • Опубліковано 13 тра 2024
  • We borrow inspiration from many people and places around the region-and beyond-and one of the gardens that has been on our shortlist to see is Tony Avent's Juniper Level Botanic Gardens out of Raleigh, NC. Over 30+ years, he has slowly created a botanical paradise on 28 acres in addition to selling over 27,000 taxa (although not all at once!) through his nursery, Plant Delights.
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  • @FlockFingerLakes
    @FlockFingerLakes  26 днів тому +8

    The Plant Delights Nursery Tour on 'Plant One On Me' is now live: ua-cam.com/video/ozg98RKUQwI/v-deo.html

    • @feistycitrus
      @feistycitrus 26 днів тому

      Awesome. I was looking for it yesterday and couldn’t find it.

    • @lhspirited
      @lhspirited 26 днів тому

      I too was looking all over for it. ugh

  • @sashastarshanti3599
    @sashastarshanti3599 27 днів тому +27

    Ohmygoodness! You're with Tony Avent! He is an absolute living legend in the North Carolina horticulture world. And this is an amazing tour of his botanical gardens, thank you both!

    • @FlockFingerLakes
      @FlockFingerLakes  26 днів тому +3

      Glad you enjoyed. We'll have more of Tony on our sister channel, 'Plant One On Me'. So you can tune in there on Thursday, May 16th too.

    • @sashastarshanti3599
      @sashastarshanti3599 26 днів тому

      @@FlockFingerLakes I'll be there, with joy! Thank you.

    • @user-rf2vk8zp2u
      @user-rf2vk8zp2u 17 днів тому

      He also denies Global Warming! What a joy!

    • @whywhywhy4716
      @whywhywhy4716 11 днів тому

      Yes, in the United States and globally. Fabulous show, thanks, blessings t

    • @user-rf2vk8zp2u
      @user-rf2vk8zp2u 11 днів тому

      @@whywhywhy4716 ew.....

  • @indianagardener365
    @indianagardener365 27 днів тому +20

    “38 years of joy it has given us” ( the Arched Oak) what a beautiful statement! With the gorgeous music, brought tears to my eyes! Well done!

  • @saraw8503
    @saraw8503 27 днів тому +9

    I was fortunate to tour Juniper Level conducted by Tony. It was glorious.

  • @thepipingbagbakery4399
    @thepipingbagbakery4399 27 днів тому +14

    I so enjoyed this episode. I love how Summer soaks in everything and how much joy and passion each expressed in their tour and conversation. You can tell how much mutual admiration they held for each other.

  • @leilab.matson8188
    @leilab.matson8188 27 днів тому +9

    What a very knowledgeable man with so many years of experience!

  • @plantoholic761
    @plantoholic761 27 днів тому +8

    I was just there last week! Gorgeous place, truly one of the most diverse gardens in the US. Your showcasing is excellent. Great camera work. I can only imagine how much footage you cut to get this down to an hour video!

  • @rons3236
    @rons3236 27 днів тому +10

    Stunning garden!!! And great videography!!! Thank you!!!

  • @marthamiriam8983
    @marthamiriam8983 25 днів тому +7

    Mr. Tony Avent I want to hear EVERYTHING he has to say. What a wise man.

  • @angelaengler2387
    @angelaengler2387 27 днів тому +11

    What a delightful man and his plants! Beautiful botanic garden, so much inspiration ❤️

  • @jeanneamato8278
    @jeanneamato8278 27 днів тому +11

    He’s got tons of humor and tons of imagination.

  • @SequoiaElisabeth
    @SequoiaElisabeth 27 днів тому +5

    Such a knowledgeable man, Tony. I'm blown away with the variety of this garden. Probably one of the best botanical collections I have seen outside of say, Huntington or Longwood.

  • @TheeChocolateGoddess
    @TheeChocolateGoddess 25 днів тому +3

    He has such a great personality. I've enjoyed watching this one!

  • @alanFconrad
    @alanFconrad 27 днів тому +10

    Simply Fantastic......Tony ( and Summer) are brilliant....Thank You SO Much !

  • @aalejardin
    @aalejardin 27 днів тому +7

    Thank you Summer that was a real treat.

  • @angela86753
    @angela86753 27 днів тому +2

    No one knew what a muffler was 😂 But he had a creative and beautiful solution. And living in zone 6b I love seeing all the plants they can grow outdoors in the South

  • @andrisport
    @andrisport 27 днів тому +2

    "High Functioning Drunk" is the best, I must have it...🍇

  • @ExoticGreenery
    @ExoticGreenery 27 днів тому +2

    I follow mr Avent for a while. Great inspiration and know-how! Someone who really really knows and then even spreads! Thank you from the Netherlands

  • @2prettyfunnythings736
    @2prettyfunnythings736 27 днів тому +2

    Great tour. I know you were loving all the diversity

  • @denisewoodward2514
    @denisewoodward2514 8 годин тому

    Hello sister from another mister, love your mahi/work, from Aotearoa New Zealand xx

  • @pattivermeersch7348
    @pattivermeersch7348 27 днів тому +1

    What a wonderful fabulous tour…thanks so much 👌

  • @charlesbale8376
    @charlesbale8376 26 днів тому

    I really enjoyed the garden walk and found the information very useful.

  • @maryd6745
    @maryd6745 27 днів тому +1

    What a wonderful garden tour! So fascinating and even though my grow zone is 6, this is inspirational! I love woodland plants, but I hardly ever see them cultivated - wow - what they have done here is amazing! Thank you both for this wonderful hour!

  • @marywnz2no
    @marywnz2no 27 днів тому +2

    This is so awesome! I live in NC and had no idea this place existed. Thank you!

    • @FlockFingerLakes
      @FlockFingerLakes  26 днів тому +1

      Oh you must make the trip when they have open houses. (They just had one recently).

  • @lorirober2536
    @lorirober2536 22 дні тому

    ❤ Awesome video! Thank you much for these botanic garden tours. This place is near me, i need to visit there sometime. Crape myrtle does not do well in my area of the mountains, here in SW Virginia. The 2 in my yard have such dieback, I am removing them. Once again, thank you for your continuing efforts in interviews. This man is a wealth of knowledge.

  • @themilesdevin
    @themilesdevin 27 днів тому +1

    The crape myrtle’s bark is just so stunning! Never thought I would say that! ❤

    • @FlockFingerLakes
      @FlockFingerLakes  26 днів тому

      Agreed. I found one hopefully cold-hardy enough to our zone and will give it a shot! I'm in love with their bark as well.

  • @cefcat5733
    @cefcat5733 27 днів тому +1

    Well, Tony is livin in paradise. You can see the work, they've put into it. The water element is precious. Wonderful and Summer had a good time. P. S. I purchased 4 tiny types of Acer Palmatum. They are still inside and I've noticed that they occasionally give off a cloud, of their own scent. One dropped some leaves. It waited one more day, in the store for me, than the others. (That was a fun video tour. Wishing continued success and gentle weather, for Tony's creative habitats.)

  • @rolandromak
    @rolandromak 27 днів тому +1

    Ohh it's Just fascinating to watch this garden and listen to your conversation. I Love your land that you have been working on, but also I find these "gardens" amazing, that you have been visiting😊 and showing us!
    MANY THANKS❤
    Could you please show this garden in a different season like summer😮
    It must be even more awsome❤
    I'm wacthing you from Eastern-Europe and I learn a lot, not to mention I share your view, rather plant 400-500 type of plants in my garden, than Just 10-12 😢 that would be a shame and waist of land, I hope this new fashion, planting in masses a few species goes away soon😅

    • @FlockFingerLakes
      @FlockFingerLakes  26 днів тому +1

      If this place were closer, we would love to film it in a different season, but alas it's not, so I wouldn't hold your breath on it. But if chances have us back in the Carolinas, we'd love to do a full-day tour.

  • @timgarner1957
    @timgarner1957 27 днів тому +2

    Two of my favorite people in my favorite garden..oh sorry 3 can't forget Saunder. Lol
    You really have to take your time in that garden..so many different plants to see..

  • @orlandogreengirl3053
    @orlandogreengirl3053 19 днів тому

    This is an amazing Garden. I used to volunteer there. You should go back in the summer time. It will look like Jurassic Park along the stream is stunning. There is an amazing amount of hellebores.

  • @feistycitrus
    @feistycitrus 27 днів тому +1

    I’m only half way through this video but I had to say bravo. I mean first of all Tony Avent!!!, second Juniper Level is #1 on my list of gardens to visit and third you guys are doing a great job filming, discussing and the “B-roles” and slow pans of serene views of this specular place. I cannot wait to go myself. 👏👏👏

  • @LifeHomeandGardenwithAnaRica
    @LifeHomeandGardenwithAnaRica 27 днів тому +1

    Amazing garden! beautiful hard work and very knowledgeable Man. Thank you Tony and the team.

  • @Marietta30064
    @Marietta30064 23 дні тому

    Loved this!!! I'm feeling inspired and informed. Thank you!

  • @donnas3148
    @donnas3148 27 днів тому +1

    I always loved his catalogs. So much fun

  • @Alwaysherethere
    @Alwaysherethere 27 днів тому +2

    I really enjoyed this video! Thanks for sharing!❤😊

  • @iwonnasalak2578
    @iwonnasalak2578 26 днів тому +1

    Thanks for showing this! Love it!

  • @marky3131
    @marky3131 26 днів тому

    We focus on native plants but are fine with some cultivars if they don’t do things like make double blooms or change leaf color. Native plant friends don’t like it when I do it. But my prime directive is 1. No invasives 2. Native plants, 3 native cultivars 4 non native non invasives that we love or see important for the garden design. We appreciate your tour

  • @ac42405
    @ac42405 25 днів тому

    This is fabulous.

  • @KJones-qs7ju
    @KJones-qs7ju 27 днів тому +2

    Just watched a video/tour a few weeks ago that he did on baptisia (probably spelled wrong) at that garden and absolutely loved the guy! Had never heard of him before but looking forward to watching this.

    • @FlockFingerLakes
      @FlockFingerLakes  26 днів тому

      He's a bit of a legend in the plant world, so I do hope you enjoy!

  • @Tminus89
    @Tminus89 27 днів тому +1

    What a place, loved the tour :)

  • @barbarabranstetter1784
    @barbarabranstetter1784 27 днів тому +1

    Fascinating garden 💚💚

  • @TracMcNguyen
    @TracMcNguyen 27 днів тому +1

    So many wonderful ideas...and lithops...mind blown 🤯🤯🤯

  • @allisonbusch2351
    @allisonbusch2351 27 днів тому +2

    Hi Summer! I loved this episode! Beautiful garden. And I love the energy you both had! I have a question though. You referenced episode 373 on plant one on me as the tour of the nursery. But there is no episode. Episode 373 is the one where you tried to save the dying aloe plant. I hope you post the nursery tour soon. So excited for that! Thanks for all you do!

    • @FlockFingerLakes
      @FlockFingerLakes  27 днів тому

      It's a typo. Sorry about that. It'll be coming out this Thursday, May 16th on 'Plant One On Me'. Thanks for pointing that out for others.

    • @allisonbusch2351
      @allisonbusch2351 26 днів тому

      Thanks so much! Cant wait!

  • @soozecca19
    @soozecca19 25 днів тому

    Tony is super interesting, great video!!

  • @christophertaylor9826
    @christophertaylor9826 27 днів тому +1

    Very inspirational and informative.

  • @berrysuttlemyre
    @berrysuttlemyre 27 днів тому +1

    I love juniper level. We make a trip every year

    • @FlockFingerLakes
      @FlockFingerLakes  26 днів тому

      If it were closer, we'd be going every year ourselves!

  • @jcriverside
    @jcriverside 23 дні тому

    Awesome place/guy.

  • @joelschmierer3544
    @joelschmierer3544 18 днів тому

    should tour with him again, he seems to know everything about plants

  • @moradmoradi8518
    @moradmoradi8518 27 днів тому +1

    Thanks!

  • @hortontran1995
    @hortontran1995 7 днів тому

    I hope you will have video visiting JC Raulston Arboretum soon

  • @marshaharwood8883
    @marshaharwood8883 27 днів тому +1

    Summer, have you ever visited Elizabethan Gardens in Manteo NC, it’s worth a trip!!

  • @PlantNative
    @PlantNative 26 днів тому

    Fiddleheads are harvested from Ostrich Ferns.

  • @marthamiriam8983
    @marthamiriam8983 25 днів тому

    The Agave planted in the garden survive North Carolina winters and lithops too! I am so mind blown right now. Desert plants in North Carolina?! Does he cover them in winter with frost cloth? I am in Maryland and the closest desert plant I have in my garden is Hardy Sedum. Mr. Tony is proof he does not follow no almanac no garden zoning How do you acclimatize?! I HAVE QUESTIONS!

  • @kathymacomber5115
    @kathymacomber5115 27 днів тому +3

    No way can I limit myself to 12 plants

  • @1AceHeart1
    @1AceHeart1 25 днів тому +1

    Hey Summer, is that your channel as well?

  • @pamelapearce8702
    @pamelapearce8702 6 днів тому

    When was this filmed? If it were in our area (Southern Willamette Valley in Oregon) I would have guessed early to mid April- except arisaemas which begin blooming in late April most years

  • @LS-kg6my
    @LS-kg6my 27 днів тому +1

    Wonderful. I assume you have a huge deer fence

    • @FlockFingerLakes
      @FlockFingerLakes  26 днів тому

      I think he has in some places but not all. I guess the deer don't eat agave and a lot of the exotic species.

  • @pamelapearce8702
    @pamelapearce8702 6 днів тому

    Variegated Pteris is hardy for us here in PNW (Oregon)

  • @LostInThisGardenofLife
    @LostInThisGardenofLife 25 днів тому

    ❤❤❤

  • @saraw8503
    @saraw8503 27 днів тому +2

    Is the soil acidic due to the excessive amount of chemicals used in the tobacco farm during the former life of the land.

    • @FlockFingerLakes
      @FlockFingerLakes  26 днів тому

      Really good question. Seems as if the native plants adapted to that condition though. It's strange because I worked on reclaiming a mine site as a teenager, where the normally neutral pH was hovering around 4.5 and the plants were really suffering.

  • @Tminus89
    @Tminus89 27 днів тому +2

    1:02:02 I can't seem to find this video on the other channel

    • @allisonbusch2351
      @allisonbusch2351 27 днів тому

      Same. I asked about it too. I didn’t see you commented on it already 🫣.

    • @FlockFingerLakes
      @FlockFingerLakes  26 днів тому +1

      Pardon. It was a typo. It's coming on the channel Thursday, May 16th (tomorrow), so you can look out for it then.

    • @Tminus89
      @Tminus89 26 днів тому

      ​@@FlockFingerLakes I most certainly will :)

  • @heinedevries2820
    @heinedevries2820 27 днів тому +1

    wonder if he will get animal damage ..

  • @FireflyOnTheMoon
    @FireflyOnTheMoon 26 днів тому +1

    It's not really true to say that all pollinators don't care about whether a plant is native or not. Moths and butterflies can be very, very specific about native origin. Nobody ever said that pollinators don't go to cultivars. Ever.

  • @judymckerrow6720
    @judymckerrow6720 27 днів тому +1

    Plant Delights shipping costs are unreal. They have a wonderful collection of plants but I personally will probably not ever consider them a go to nursery for plants. That’s just me though, probably one in a million that can’t afford their shipping. ☹️💐💚🙃

    • @FlockFingerLakes
      @FlockFingerLakes  26 днів тому +2

      As a customer, I felt the same way, but after touring the facility, you realize ALL that goes into it-from plant hunting to hybridizing to seed collection to growing and propagating (sometimes very, very slow plants), to managing the space and all the facilities of 100,000s of plants and 27,000+ varieties, (which in turn, have very different care and propagation strategies) in a very non-industrial way, and then you get the sense that he's undercutting himself on price. WAIT till you see the propagation techniques he's using (another episode on our sister channel)... It's really mind-blowing. And those techniques can take years and years of growth, which means space for plants (not in-production) and not selling them until they are absolutely ready. These are investment plants, for sure, but the fact that they are even offered is a gift alone.

    • @judymckerrow6720
      @judymckerrow6720 26 днів тому +1

      @@FlockFingerLakes I understand, I just paid 89.00 for a 29.00 plant though and I definitely can’t be doing that very often, especially if hubby finds out how much I spent on one plant 😱💐💚🙃

  • @shimmyhinnah
    @shimmyhinnah 24 дні тому +2

    Something here gets lost in the translation. That’s because the hostess did not give him uninterrupted time to expound on his own. She was constantly interrupting. Yikes.

  • @kerryjean2223
    @kerryjean2223 22 дні тому

    I can't stand the blatant blasphemy of the Lord's Name. Shame.

  • @debraisola9037
    @debraisola9037 27 днів тому

    God's system perfect..Jesus Christ is Lord not a cuss word!! Disgusting!

  • @rickyt3961
    @rickyt3961 27 днів тому +1

    Thank you Summer!
    that is an amazing place.