Let us lead you down the path of our Rose Garden where June ushered in a truly stunning display of Roses along with some of their preferred companions including Salvias, Nepetas, and Alliums. As many of these plants continue to flower, the fragrance is as intoxicating as the sight of all the blooms.
A Sampling of Plants to Achieve This Look
A few steps beyond the White Flower Farm Store, the farm’s Shade Garden is a cooling oasis that mixes diverse colors, textures, and forms to animate a border with low light. Hosta, Coleus, Hakonechloa, Spigelia marilandica, Oakleaf Hydrangea, and an Impatiens create a living mosaic while a piece of our Cretan Pottery adds structure, stillness, and a focal point.
A Sampling of Plants to Achieve This Look
As our Lloyd Border and other late-season gardens transition to peak summer, the flowers of Allium, Rudbeckia, Joe Pye Weed, Penstemon, and Helenium create a colorful composition that can take the heat. Plants are grouped in multiples to create drifts, and the wavy, billowing stems of an Ornamental Grass add movement as they catch even the slightest breeze.
A Sampling of Plants to Achieve This Look
Evening walks in the garden are illuminated by the glow of white flowers in our Moon Garden, a fully monochromatic expanse featuring a diverse selection of blossoms in varied sizes and shapes and a palette of whites, ivories, creams and plenty of green. The garden at this stage shows two Hydrangeas in flower amid a sampling of perennials and an eruption of annuals from Agastache and Ageratum to Cleome. (Please note: Annuals are sold only for planting in spring.)
A Sampling of Plants to Achieve This Look
Above a stone wall that leads from the White Flower Farm Store to some of our display gardens, our head gardener created a boldly colored pollinator paradise that combines native and improved selections of native plants with swaths of other, non-native showstoppers. Tucking native plants into ornamental borders is a great way to provide food and habitat for butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds.
A Sampling of Plants to Achieve This Look
If a low-maintenance, part-shade garden is something you could use in your backyard, you can do no better than to plant a mix of attractive, fuss-free, weed-suppressing perennials. In a stretch of the farm’s Shade Garden, our head gardener combined Astilbe, Hosta, and Heuchera to create a season-long pageant of color and texture that requires almost no labor from year to year. Ferns and the round leaves of a chartreuse Cotinus (Smoke Bush, far left) also figure into this picture.
