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Shade Doesn’t Have to Be Boring

LizWFF
August 28, 2024
Garden Design

Shady areas of any yard provide welcome refuge during steamy hot summers (like the one we just had). They also bring unexpected beauty and interest to low-lit areas. As the gardening season begins to wind down, stroll around your garden and look for areas that could benefit from more color and variety. We offer a broad array of perennials and shrubs that grow splendidly in shady to partly shady sites. Plant multiples of one type of plant to create a swath of color or repeat trios of different plant groupings to enjoy a mosaic effect with pleasing variations of color,…

Category Garden Design

What Are You Going To Do With All Those Tomatoes?

DebWFF
August 25, 2016
Garden Design, Tomatoes

A Few Favorite Recipes From Our Staff For vegetable gardeners in many parts of the land, it’s tomato-harvesting time. If you planted a variety of tomatoes, as we always do, you now have the delightful problem of figuring out how…

It’s Too Darn Hot!

As the dog days of August grind on and the gardens seem to be steaming in the humid weather, we’re as grateful as ever for the various shade gardens we keep on the property. Set beneath the leafy canopies of…

Visit Someone Else’s Garden for Inspiration

By Margret Delves Broughton, Public Relations I find it ironic that every year, by the time it’s mid-summer, I am kind of over gardening. Isn’t this the very moment I’ve been waiting for? After all, there shouldn’t be too many…

The Art of Gardening: Successful Plant Combinations

Steve Silk, a garden designer who lives in Farmington, Conn., believes there’s an evolution in the life of every gardener. All of us start by falling in love with individual plants – a Peony, a Salvia, a Canna Lily. But…

Road Trip: Visiting Longwood, Mt. Cuba & Chanticleer

One of the great pleasures of working in the plant business is the regular opportunity (read: the excuse) to visit gardens and gardeners. The team at White Flower Farm logs a lot of miles every year, including regular trips all…

What’s Going on in the Garden This Spring?

By Cheryl Whalen, Head Gardener The arrival of spring brings with it fresh starts and new beginnings. Now is the time to peruse the gardens, making note of which plants survived the past winter’s trickery and also mourning for a…

A Method to My Madness

By Cheryl Whalen, Head Gardener Gardening season in Connecticut begins in February. Outside my window, the ice-crusted snow still blankets the sleeping garden beds. Maybe it’s too early to garden in the earth, but at my desk, gardens are in…