Botanical Gardens
All are welcome for free, self-guided tours of our gardens and growing fields during our business hours. Our display gardens include:
Annual Garden
Dahlia and Zinnia Cutting Garden
Daylily and Phlox Circle Garden
Herb Garden
Hedges
Mixed Evergreen and Deciduous Shrub Border Garden
Peony Row
Perennial Shade Garden
Perennial Sun Garden
Rain Garden
Rock Garden
Rose Garden
Spring Bulb Garden
Additional growing beds for propagating and testing
We sell what grows in our gardens! Check out our online plant catalog.
Find Inspiration
Display plantings show a variety of concepts:
– plants’ growth habits
– how to mix compatibility
– soil and sun preferences
– color combinations
– various garden styles
– mixing of material
– how plants evolve over the seasons
– what needs pruning and what stays compact
and so much more!
All in all, the display gardens can help you visualize plants in your own landscape. Some gardens have a mixture of plant material including shrubs, dwarf trees, perennial and bulbs all in a relatively small space. There are evergreens grown en masse and allowed to reach their full height. We also have neatly pruned hedges that are examples of living fences.
The gardens at the nursery change with the seasons so we suggest you visit whenever you feel your landscape is looking a little dull to see what is going on in our gardens. Visiting the nursery can be a much-needed break from a hectic day. If it is muddy, bring boots as there are no paved roads. While we do not supply bikes or horses, you are welcome to ride either as long as you keep to the field paths. Be sure to bring a notebook and camera!
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Anyone else thinking about those spring bulbs just hanging out together under the snow?](http://scontent-dfw5-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/s640x640/84159186_2499851873588567_6132531776870863635_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=111&_nc_ohc=k7S9_HIlOmEAX8COxh8&oh=df5152c16703d6dbb9226e45b97d73bd&oe=5E888828 "🌼 🤳 [daffodil selfie]
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Anyone else thinking about those spring bulbs just hanging out together under the snow?")
![If you don’t know by now, we’re a big fan of #witchhazel and it seems we add a new one to our growing each year. New to gardens this season is ‘Diane’
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Spicy, fragrant red flowers will be some of the earliest to bloom, some years in March! Ends the season with phenomenal fall foliage too. Shade, clay, and deer tolerant.
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#hamamelis #earlyflowers #newenglandflowers #vermontplants #spring
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[As we begin growing new-to-us plants we appreciate photographers who publicly share their work.]
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Many thanks to Orjen on Wikipedia. Information about photo: Title: Hamamelis x intermedia 'Diane', botanical garden Munich
Modifications: cropped to fit square ratio
Available under public license - https://bit.ly/31YHTAi](http://scontent-dfw5-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e35/84819754_177846383632400_7312411816008541923_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=108&_nc_ohc=jgJZ4YSHGoAAX_KJPnN&oh=de0e73e41a4341f48f60f17c4db36861&oe=5E79AE21 "If you don’t know by now, we’re a big fan of #witchhazel and it seems we add a new one to our growing each year. New to gardens this season is ‘Diane’
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Spicy, fragrant red flowers will be some of the earliest to bloom, some years in March! Ends the season with phenomenal fall foliage too. Shade, clay, and deer tolerant.
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#hamamelis #earlyflowers #newenglandflowers #vermontplants #spring
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[As we begin growing new-to-us plants we appreciate photographers who publicly share their work.]
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Many thanks to Orjen on Wikipedia. Information about photo: Title: Hamamelis x intermedia 'Diane', botanical garden Munich
Modifications: cropped to fit square ratio
Available under public license - https://bit.ly/31YHTAi")
