Design

Here are a few images from the native plant collections at the Botanical Gardens of Asheville. An tough and adaptable wildflower, Green and Gold ( Chrysogonum virginicum ) thrives in conditions from dry dappled sunlight to damper edges; some plants (from northern populations) are much more upright than the prostrate rosettes common in southern populations. These plants, growing in relatively high rich soil, look robust. Firepink ( Silene virginica ) must be challenging to move - I seldom see it for sale as a tranplant. Otherwise, it would be more common as a garden plant! And Iris cristata always is lovely.