Last Saturday I went on the Ann Arbor Garden Walk. If you’ve never been on a garden tour like that, I encourage you keep an eye out for one in your area to and check it out. You never know what you might discover. Plus, it’s fun seeing how each gardener approaches garden design in their own way.
Usually, I don’t see plants I’m unfamiliar with. In my many years of professional gardening, I’ve grown umpteen varieties of plants. In this tour, one plant stood out for me, one I’d never grown before — Duranta.
I had to do a little research online to find out some more about them.
Duranta is a perennial shrub that is hardy to zone 10 or so. So, around here we have to grow it either as an annual or in a pot and bring into the greenhouse each fall to over-winter.
This Duranta was in full bloom at the Ann Arbor Garden Walk.
In all my years of gardening, I don’t recall ever seeing Duranta being offered for sale, either as transplants, cuttings or seed.
Discovering this plant on the garden tour was well worth the price of admission.
Bob