Display Garden

As one might guess from the name, Bee Balm attracts bees along with hummingbirds and other pollinators. It is combined here with white Shasta Daisy and purple phlox.

This late summer border is a bold mix of color, form and texture. Monarda, goatsbeard and ligularia add height to the background, while daylilies and nepeta fill in the middle. Along the front of the border, heuchera, sedums and low grasses provide a variety of foliage colors and textures.

The combination of orange echinacea, purple liatris, stokesia and coreopsis makes this bed extremely attractive to a variety of butterflies.

An early snow hangs as a taste of things to come on the leaves and branches of a crabapple tree.

The white spikes and dark foliage of Cimicifuga provides a dramatic contrast to the red crab apples in the fall display garden.

'Fall-ter' - what you get when you cross fall and winter! An early snow covers the display garden while brilliant fall color remains on the surrounding trees.

The Red Jade crabapple tree in the display garden hangs onto its fruit for a extra long time, providing food for the birds while adding interest and extending the enjoyment of this tree into the late fall and winter.

Globeflowers are extremely popular perennials, bursting into color in late spring and early summer. Sometimes called Buttercups, they grow well in a sunny or part-shaded border, or at the edge of a moist woodland.

The herb garden, which changes annually, contains a variety of annual and perennial herbs, edible flowering plants and roses.

A great combination for the summer border - Geranium, Dianthus and Sedum provide bright color in the heat of the summer, and are drought tolerant as well.

Take a walk down the Primrose path. These charming flowers are one of the most beautiful additions to the garden, welcoming in spring with their neat foliage and showy flowers.

With its long spikes of violet-blue, pea-like flowers Baptisia is an excellent choice for sunny gardens. It makes an excellent cut flower, is attractive to butterflies and is drought tolerant, once established. The flowers are followed by ornamental seed pods, which when dried make very satisfactory rattles to amuse the leaders of tomorrow!

Alliums are exotic, unique and great fun. They add dramatic color and unusual, show-stopping shape and form when planted in a mixed border or mass planted. Even after their vibrant color fades, they continue to add an element of interest to the garden.

Aster purple dome provides a brilliant contrast to the beautiful fall foliage.

Native wildflowers like Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica) and Golden Poppy (Stylophorum diphylum) grow especially well in the filtered light of the early spring woodland garden.

A dwarf blue spruce growing near the pond adds a focal point and provides interest in all seasons. The silver artemisia and pink monarda and achillea add to the cooling effect.

Just cross the bridge to go from one area of the gardens to another, from high and dry to boggy climates, you will find them all filled with plants growing in the specific conditions required for them.

You can cross the bridge which separates the waterfall and bog bed from the larger pond filled with waterlilys, water hyacinths, gold fish and other water plants.

Rudbeckia glows when placed between the light pink phlox and the brighter pink echinacea. There are many different textures evident as well, from the coarse evergreen branches to the airy leaves of the rose bush and the spiky grasses in between.

Intoxicating orange blooms liven the late spring to early summer garden when many bulbs have faded and summer perennials have yet to appear. The large flowers create bright spots of color framed by attractive foliage. A fantastic show! These brilliant beacons of spectacular color spread 18-36" to add an element of drama to a perennial garden, bed or border.

Brightly colored phlox make a beautiful addition to any sunny perennial bed, adding height as well as fragrance.

Early fall features a variety of color and textures. The deep pink flowers of Turtlehead 'Hot Lips', the spiky foliage of Iris, the feathery flowers of the Filipendula, and the cluster of golden Rudbeckia 'Goldsturm' are highlights of the garden at this time of year.

Sedum 'Autumn Joy' is the center of attention in the fall garden. Shown here with 'Rosa glauca', 'Purple Dome' Aster and a dwarf Blue Spruce.

You can almost hear the water rushing in this early spring garden photo.

PeeGee Hydrangeas look beautiful for a long period of time and the flower heads can be kept and used in dry flower arrangements.

Flowering crab trees welcome spring with beautiful flowers and aromas.

Hosta collecting has been known to be addictive, and even contagious. Of course, you can always look the other way!

A bold mix of color, height and texture adds interest to any garden bed. Here the large dark red leave of Kopper King Hibiscus contrast dramatically with the bright foliage and pink flowers of Fillipendula. The spiky Iris and Primula seed heads, and the tall Joe Pye Weed add another dimension.

Azaleas are called "the royalty of the garden". Pictured here is 'Mandarin Lights' setting the woodland garden ablaze.

This shady bed features a wide assortment of hostas enough to please any hosta-holic.

An early spring photo of the morning light playing through the canopy. The woodland floor is covered with hundreds of daffodils, trilliums and many other early spring bloomers.

This bed mixes a variety of leaf shapes, sizes and textures. In the foreground, hosta 'Paul's Glory' contrasts beautifully with the gold feathery branches of 'Tiger Eyes Sumac' directly behind it. The color of the burgundy 'Rosy Glow' Barberry on the right is complemented by the Heuchera on the left. And the spikey leaves of the iris and candy lily add another dimension.

Sedums play an important role, providing color and contrast in the fall garden.

Planted in mass, garden phlox makes quite a statement. Available in a wide variety of colors and heights, there is sure to be a spot for some of these beauties in any sunny garden area.

A mix of grasses, coneflowers, liatris and heliopsis creates a low maintenance natural-looking prairie display, which is extremely attractive to butterflies and bees.

Can it be more colorful? This is what everybody is longing for after an often too long winter. This 'Radiant' Crabapple tree is encircled by blue forget-me-not's and red tulips.

The silver artemesia, pink yarrow, blue campanula and yellow lilies make a very bright combination planting in the garden area near the pond.

In the center of our display garden is this island bed which contains the pond and waterfall, a bog bed and a very colorful and everchanging display of perennials, ground covers, ornamental grasses, evergreens and flowering shrubs.

Tulips are among the most popular spring flowers of all time, and it's no wonder. Everybody loves these easy to grow bulbs that herald the arrival of spring.

Ornamental grasses show off their feathery plumes starting in September and can be left to stand to provide ongoing winter interest.

Pictured here is the path and bridge over our pond. To the left is the waterfall and bog bed featuring a wide variety of plants that like wet feet. Above the waterfall are sedums, grasses, shrubs and other perennials.

The weeping larch makes a dramatic focal point from spring until late fall. Surrounded by Perovskia this bed almost glows in the late summer.

When you arrive at Winter Greenhouse you will be greeted by our resting 'Buffalo' surrounded by bright annuals, perennials and ornamental grasses.

Structures like arbors, fruit trees, shrubs and ornamental grasses can provide lots of winter interest in the garden.