March 2016 - Log Cabin and Carolina Jessamine (Gelsemium sempervirens)I found YET another log cabin
March 2016 - Log Cabin and Carolina Jessamine (Gelsemium sempervirens)I found YET another log cabin in the city of Asheville! This one wasn’t occupied though. It was next to the UNCA campus, part of the local botanical garden which is really a small native garden run by volunteers. According to the botanical garden website, the log cabin was a donation from nearby Madison County, the thing was taken apart and rebuilt, log by log.What really blew me away was the Carolina Jessamine, which I thought wasn’t supposed to be hardy here. Well, not only was this plant hardy, it was blooming! It didn’t have much scent though. As I was marveling over this, a man came up to me and we started talking about it. He said it used to be all over the area, almost like the Japanese Honeysuckle is now, and that it’s particularly rampant in the coastal areas of the Carolinas.Carolina Jessamine grew beautifully in the piedmont of Georgia, but I thought it was one of those plants I’d have to leave behind here in the NC mountains. Now, it is true that the city is usually zone 7 whereas we’re firmly zone 6. But maybe there’s a way to grow it here after all. -- source link
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