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Take an Armchair Tour of Our Borders

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Take an Armchair Tour of Our Borders


Escape Into Our Gardens: Enjoy a Summer Scrapbook of Images from the Farm

Allow us to lead you down the trail of our Rose Backyard the place June ushered in a really beautiful show of Roses together with a few of their most well-liked companions together with Salvias, Nepetas, and Alliums. As many of those crops proceed to flower, the perfume is as intoxicating because the sight of all of the blooms.

A Sampling of Vegetation to Obtain This Look

Cool Off in the Shade

A number of steps past the White Flower Farm Retailer, the farm’s Shade Backyard is a cooling oasis that mixes numerous colours, textures, and kinds to animate a border with low gentle. Hosta, Coleus, Hakonechloa, Spigelia marilandica, Oakleaf Hydrangea, and an Impatiens create a residing mosaic whereas a bit of our Cretan Pottery provides construction, stillness, and a focus.

A Sampling of Vegetation to Obtain This Look

Delight in Dreamy, Colorful Drifts

As our Lloyd Border and different late-season gardens transition to peak summer time, the flowers of Allium, Rudbeckia, Joe Pye Weed, Penstemon, and Helenium create a colourful composition that may take the warmth. Vegetation are grouped in multiples to create drifts, and the wavy, billowing stems of an Decorative Grass add motion as they catch even the slightest breeze.

A Sampling of Vegetation to Obtain This Look

Get a Glow On

Night walks within the backyard are illuminated by the glow of white flowers in our Moon Backyard, a completely monochromatic expanse that includes a various choice of blossoms in various configurations and dimensions and a palette of whites, ivories, lotions and loads of inexperienced. The backyard at this stage exhibits two Hydrangeas in flower amid a sampling of perennials and an eruption of annuals from Agastache and Ageratum to Cleome. (Please be aware: Annuals are offered just for planting in spring.)

A Sampling of Vegetation to Obtain This Look

Witness the Wonder of Native Plants in Gardens

Above a stone wall that leads from the White Flower Farm Retailer to a few of our show gardens, our head gardener created a boldly coloured pollinator paradise that mixes native and improved choices of native crops with swaths of different, non-native showstoppers. Tucking native crops into decorative borders is a good way to supply meals and habitat for butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds.

A Sampling of Vegetation to Obtain This Look

Relax & Let Low-Maintenance Plants Do the Work

If a low-maintenance, part-shade backyard is one thing you may use in your yard, you are able to do no higher than to plant a mixture of enticing, fuss-free, weed-suppressing perennials. In a stretch of the farm’s Shade Backyard, our head gardener mixed Astilbe, Hosta, and Heuchera to create a season-long pageant of colour and texture that requires virtually no labor from yr to yr. Ferns and the spherical leaves of a chartreuse Cotinus (Smoke Bush, far left) additionally determine into this image.

A Sampling of Vegetation to Obtain This Look