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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,…

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Ovation Large Flowering Orienpet Lily Mix

Learning About Lilies

True Lilies, from the genus Lilium, are often confused with Hemerocallis, more commonly called Daylilies. True Lilies produce a single stem, often tall, from a bulb. The leaves grow on the stem. Daylilies grow from tubers that produce a large…

Amaryllis Balentino®

Amaryllis for Spring Planting

Around here, Amaryllis are generally enjoyed as indoor plants during the winter months. But last spring, we planted some especially cold-tolerant Amaryllis bulbs in our annual garden beds, and the results were gorgeous. To encourage you to enjoy the same…

Plants for Pollinators

The key to attracting butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds to your garden is to offer a steady supply of nutritious, delicious foods throughout the entire growing season. The varieties you see here should be considered essential elements of any successful pollinator…

Sweet Pea 'Cupanis Original'

Here Come the Sweet Peas

The exquisite colors and sweet fragrance of Sweet Peas have made them a longtime favorite of floral designers. But because these plants adhere to a somewhat tricky timetable and require a bit of special care as they grow, they are…

Create a Dramatic Patio Container

ANNUALS ARE DELIGHTFULLY VERSATILE Look to annuals to create exceptional potted plantings for patios, decks, terraces, porches, and front entries, or as a focal point within a border. Annuals can also be used to fill in spaces after spring bulbs…

Nepeta Walker's Low

How to Choose Plants

Like people, plants have specific needs that when met, allow them to develop to their full potential. Selecting plants whose cultural requirements suit the conditions of your garden is the best way to assure success and cut down on time…

White Flower Farm Store

Down On the Farm: It’s a Wrap

Operating a mail-order plants business out of northwest Connecticut can be an adventure. Even by our standards, this December was a wild one, with an arctic air mass settling in for days, halting the shipment of tender plants in a…

Small Space Shade Garden

How to design a garden

The aim of this article is to help you select a site, size, and shape for a flower garden and then to fill it with a harmonious combination of plants. We present this process as a series of steps–seven in…

Christmas Colors Holiday Bouquet

Arranging Cut-Flower Bouquets

We offer a wide range of cut flowers that are top-quality, long lasting, and sent fresh from the farm where they are grown. Each bouquet is carefully arranged by the growers prior to shipping and arrives in bud stage so…

Bulb Planting Planning

Keeping A Garden Journal

The best gardening advice that you can get may be your own. That doesn’t discount reliable information from gardening books and magazines, or expert recommendations from your local garden center, but who else knows best about what has worked in…