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Michelle’s Garden<\/h1><\/div>

Michelle\u2019s Garden is named after PDN\/JLBG co-founder, Michelle Avent, who passed away in 2012 at age 55, after a five year battle with an aggressive form of breast cancer. This was the second developed garden section at JLBG, an area twice as large as the Founder\u2019s Garden.

Michelle\u2019s Garden is a part sun\/part shade garden, with a house in the middle.\u00a0The house is now used by the Plant Delights Nursery staff as well as the JLBG Garden staff. This garden section currently contains over 9000 different plant taxa.

The sunny parts of the garden consist of the house patio garden, where the potted variegated agave collection goes on display from May \u2013 October. During this time, you can see what is almost certainly the worlds largest collection.\u00a0Adjacent to that is our first Alpine rock garden berm, complete with 550 plant taxa. Winter hardy agaves take up the majority of the space in this section, with plenty of other dryland, heat and sun loving specimens mixed in.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Michelle Avent has brightened many hearts with her smile and left precious legacy at JLBG.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Beauty and innovation <\/h2>

To the north of the Alpine berm is the dryland welcome berm, a solitary, six-foot tall berm for large agaves and other companion plants. This section serves as a backdrop for our Open House visitor welcome tent. This rock garden space was constructed with a number of rock overhangs, where we grow succulents like lithops that can\u2019t tolerate winter moisture. <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n

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Welcome berm north side<\/em><\/div><\/div>
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Welcome berm south side overhang rock<\/em><\/div><\/div>
\"Lithops<\/a>
Lithops aucampiae in bloom<\/em><\/div><\/div>
\"Cerastium<\/a>
Cerastium banaticum ‘Smokovo’<\/em><\/div><\/div>
\"Glandulicactus<\/a>
Glandulicactus wrightii<\/em><\/div><\/div>
\"Heliotropium<\/a>
Heliotropium ‘Augusta Lavender’<\/em><\/div><\/div>
\"Daphne<\/a>
Daphne collina <\/em><\/div><\/div>
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JLBG parking lot border garden beds in spring<\/em><\/div><\/div>
\"Salvia,<\/a>
Salvia, baptisia and yucca in the parking lot berm<\/em><\/div><\/div>
\"Echinocereus<\/a>
Echinocereus adustus<\/em><\/div><\/div>
\"Nothoscordum<\/a>
Nothoscordum sellowianum<\/em><\/div><\/div>
\"Zephyranthes<\/a>
Zephyranthes ‘Star Spangled’<\/em><\/div><\/div>
\"Escobaria<\/a>
Escobaria robbinsorum<\/em><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>