Discover The Coolest Winter Plants!

[@jenniferhooks2454]

I love walking through the Raulston Arboretum! I am in Raleigh several times a year with my husband for NC State events. He goes to some board meetings, and I go to the Raulston. It is a fascinating place, and I learn SO much about plants every time I go. I want to go to the Raleigh Rose Garden also. I also pick out a garden center to visit. There are lots of interesting garden centers in the Triangle area. The one I visited back in October was dealing with deer pressure like I do. The staff there was very willing to answer questions. Thanks for showing rohdea japonica. I am going to have to check that plant out. I'm giving up on hosta. I had only four planted in containers between my house and my generator. (I live at the coast.) The deer ate them to a nub! Argh! 😡Thanks as always for your informative videos.

[@brianandtamiolson2330]

I absolutely love it when you visit gardens and nature reserves. I learn so many new plants and I get excited to try them.

[@8helenjhouston8]

Jim & Stephany - you have GOT to go to South Africa - Kirstenbosch Gardens in Cape Town. It will blow your minds!

[@MiladyMeowMeow-bf7nk]

Thanks for putting all the names in the video!

[@susankilpatrick2918]

Jim love your passion and enthusiasm!

[@karinhamann5019]

Really enjoyed this field trip. Got some great ideas to check out for my garden. Thanks!

[@gracepeterson7483]

Another fantastic video, Jim. I'm still waiting for my Chimonanthus to bloom. On the subject of Pittosporum, look for Pittosporum tenuifolium 'County Park Dwarf'. The foliage is dark and luscious. I hope the nursery growers are listening!!

[@juliabinford6500]

As a brand new gardener, I bought a Yuletide camellia, and did all the wrong things to it. RIP Yuletide… Fortunately, I learned from it, and have several camellias that have lived to see another day. Thank you for the tour!

[@HandcraftedintheFoothills]

Oh my the Yuletide camellias are amazing...I passed up on one earlier this year....now I want one or two! Really pretty

[@MickF04]

I would move from Central Texas to the Raleigh area just for the ability to grow Camellias successfully. Shade or not, Texas summer heat is unforgiving.

[@dia9491]

I think this is why your videos are so important Jim. Not only do you teach people about gardening but you teach them about plants. I don’t understand why such beauty is ignored in the nursery business. We are lucky we have a nursery which also grows plants that no one’s ever heard of. They have all the regular stuff in a southern nursery azaleas, hydrangeas, etc but then they also have areas where they grow what they want. It might not be a large area or huge plant program but I learned so much from them. Can’t wait to see what they do in the spring when they reopen to the public.

[@LitlPoot]

a garden on my bucket list of places to visit ... perhaps I need to take a weekend and drive on up !!! thanks for sharing ...

[@ramgiberson7180]

❤hello everyone, gardeners friends. Hello Mr Jim Putnam and Stephany. Have happy days.

[@stephanycoakley7352]

Hi Ram. Miss you!

[@ramgiberson7180]

@@stephanycoakley7352 hello 👋 ☺️ 🤗 💖 I miss, miss you 😔

[@jilladcock5648]

That is a place I need to visit on a NC tour. Great video with lots of info. So many good zone 7 plants that are just a bit out of reach for my zone 6, wet, clay, cold winters….😢

[@Theisaiahtibbs]

Daphne odora is an amazing scent to be sure.

[@terrivance8750]

Jim, The "Unraveled" boxwood looks as though it would make an excellent variety for Bonsai! 😊

[@MelodyHopkins]

My Yuletide camellia was gorgeous this year. They bloom better with each year. Mine is 5 years old this winter. I'm on the Gulf coast of Florida (zone 9a -- was zone 8b) so mine is almost finished blooming now.

[@dia9491]

After seeing the Yuletide in Jim’s video, now I want one. How long do you think it took to get established there?

[@julieh2935]

Thanks, guys! I hope you made it through the storm okay!

[@southwesthardypalms]

Such a fantastic video as always Jim! Oh how I wish I could grow camelias here in the Southwest (Southern Utah)🌵- They are just so glossy and beautiful. I can luckily grow lots of pittosporums, and even sabal palms here in the desert though - P. tobira is probably the most common shrub here in Southern Utah. I will have to look for Pittosporum heterophyllum next, hopefully it’s a little easier to find here on the west coast. I would love to visit the JC Raulston Aboretum sometime, maybe one day!

[@maxhunter7036]

Wow the camelias there are spectacular

[@christianetraub6805]

I agree with you about the fragrance of Daphne odorat. I had one when we lived in California and loved it. You could smell it from 100 yards away. It would not like my present location, Northern Idaho. -14 degrees this morning!

[@TheBarefootedGardener]

So many great plants! I love the tip to get Aloe to bloom. But I had to laugh, talking about Sabal minor as though it’s marginal, like dude I grow them in NY! 😂

[@Collington23]

Love your vids Jim on touring the JC Raulston arboretum. Would love to see you tour other arboretums/gardens across the US and talking about interesting plants outside your area.

[@stephaniesharkey3538]

I love my pittosporum in the front of my house! Florist use it like crazy! Zone 8,GA

[@MelindaBrooks-vj3fr]

Beautiful Jim. I'm going outside now. To look!

[@NoVaCitrusGrower]

Would love to know the genus and species of the evergreen ferns. Would love for you to do a show just on evergreen ferns for zones 7 and 8.

[@jonphilpsr8141]

Excellent!

[@tumbllweed]

I'm a boxwood hater and I'm not ashamed of it! They just look artificial to me. But that weeping buxus is pretty cool.

[@maryanne2666]

Loving the tour videos.

[@rosemarybushea3517]

Great video, thanks!

[@jeanniecollier6763]

Great video, Jim and Steph.

[@dia9491]

Omg that variegated pittosporum, I saw one and I never knew what it was. So glad you showed it. Thank you. It’s gorgeous.

[@lindseystruckmeyer116]

We live in the Triangle and I take my toddler to walk around the Raulston at least once a month. The Daphne Odora Nakafu really does stop you in your tracks. I’d love to add one to my garden, but can’t find it anywhere. If anyone has a suggestion, please let me know!

[@judymiddleswart9350]

Great video

[@PeggyMills]

So many pretty winter blooms!

[@AhsanKhan-td3hg]

Nice to see u in Mants mr Jim

[@elizabethescher5445]

Gorgeous garden.

[@kso808]

Yuletide camellias are my favorite of that species!

[@kaychaney6102]

I love all of these but am on a small urban lot. Clown college has accepted me!

[@FeiyLo]

Thank you for sharing so many wonderful plants with us. I have a daphne odora 'Zuiko Nishiki' and would like to add 'Nakafu' with similar size to my garden, but I can't find it commercially available. Do you know any nursery is carrying it? I'm in coastal WA z8b.

[@bonniejackson7476]

Thanks Jim. Do you know what the plant was beside the rhodia?

[@mitzi605]

I always look for unusual plants and they are hard to find in Oregon zone 8b

[@markafitz]

I’d love to gamble on the Yuletide Camellia - I’m on the 6B/7A border just outside Boston, MA close to the coast so rarely go below 10F. You think it worth a shot? Or how hardy are these guys?

[@MDA-rs4uf]

Is prunus mume very different from incisa.??..I only have mume which is about to bloom now...hot pink that buzzes with bees in cold winter...I also have that pittosporum heterophyllum variagata which smells fabo when it blooms...I got it for that fragrance....

[@bethwheaton8618]

Love that daphne! My favorite shrub!