Heritage Flower Farm Growing Heirloom Perennial Flowering Plants
Build a Bonsai for Beginners- This Saturday May 12 2012 1:00pm
Bonsai is perfect for today’s hot trends in gardening – container gardens, small space gardening, fairy gardens and railroad gardens. Steve Carini, Milwaukee’s bonsai guru, will introduce gardeners to the ancient Japanese techniques at Heritage Flower Farm on Saturday, May 12 at 1:00 PM.
Steve will demonstrate what trees to use, crown and root pruning, wiring to shape branches, potting and care of these miniaturized trees and shrubs. The presentation includes both a power point and actual demonstration on living trees. “These picturesque trees can live for hundreds of years,” says Betty Adelman, owner of Heritage Flower Farm.
Please come for this amazing program. There is a fee of only $5.00.
Call 662-0804 or email badelman@wi.rr.com for more information.
Late Spring Thoughts at Heritage Flower Farm
The Noble Nature
by Ben JonsonIt is not growing like a tree
In bulk, doth make man better be;
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere:
A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May,
Although it fall and die that night—
It was the plant and flower of Light.
In small proportions we just beauties see;
And in short measures life may perfect be.
At Heritage Flower Farm in Mukwonago Wisconsin we’re open from Tuesdays through Sundays. Come and find a treasure that keeps on giving.
I took this picture a week ago in the greenhouse of hardy Red iceplant Delosperma dyeri with coral daisies glowing over succulent leaves from May to September – non-stop. It’s perfect for rock gardens, groundcover or edging. D. Cotterell found it in the mountains of South Africa in 1916. But it’s hardy here in SE Wisconsin.
Happy Gardening
Betty
Signs of Spring in Wisconsin Abound!
Snow Drops are among the earliest spring bloomers sometimes pushing up through early spring snows but lets not wish that upon ourselves! Pussy Willow was thinking spring in January this year in Wisconsin and the Daffodil's perhaps have come and gone before April has really gotton started!
Dutchman’s Breeches are a perennial herbaceous plant, native to rich woods of eastern North America are blooming, the dreaded Dandelion is marching forward everywhere and Squill are popping everywhere!
Have you found your Basket-of-Gold yet? Our Primula is looking delightful encouraging us to look forward to more spring blooming to come!
Creeping Buttercup or the Ranunculas repens var. pleniflorus, usually blooms it intense yellow flowers starting in May, will they be earlier this year? Forsythia with its snowy white blooms may remind some of us of what we missed this winter!
Marsh marigold Lady slipper Solomon seal
Johnny-jump-up Little brown jug
Dutchman’s breeches and Redbud
Bluebells Forget-me-not red Quince blooms
Robins Forget-me-not and Cowslip
Columbine Bluebirds and Tulip
Jack-in-the pulpit Sweet woodruff
Bleeding heart Crocus and Candytuft
Award Winning Heirloom Nursery and Flower Farm
Heritage Flower Farm in Mukwonago, Wisconsin is an award-winning nursery growing more than 1000 heirloom plants, providing their stories and spreading them to gardens from Washington D.C.’s Smithsonian and Canada’s Royal Botanic Garden to gardens like yours.
Heirloom plants are plants with a past. They heard the dawn of history, the Europe of Elizabeth I, or Siberia of the Cossacks. These plants witnessed America before John Smith sailed up the James River in Virginia. They are plants with stories, not just perfumes or sweet, pearl-like buds. They tell us how inventive, early people made them into food, medicine and articles of love. They narrate the tales of discovery by intrepid plant hunters. They are the plants of our heritage - your grandmother's garden of flowers. These are plants with wildlife values, feeding bird and insect companions to maintain abundant biodiversity. They are tough survivors - under conditions of their home places they thrive with little care.
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Each plant arrives to you with a Plant Profile telling the plant's history as well as how to care for your plant |
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Pass This Heirloom Plant Along!
At Heritage Flower Farm we grow pass-along plants -- plants passed on from one generation to the next. Share this website with a gardening friend or plan an excursion to wander our gardens in Mukwonago Wisconsin and take home the plants of your heritage or dreams!
Pre-Planned Gardens - Simplified Beauty
Planning a garden can be an arduous task even for the experienced gardeners. Let us give you the perfect garden plan, leaving you to the joyous work of planting and growing. Our Butterfly Garden Plans need about 112sq. feet with 34 plants total or the mini-butterfly garden fits in 24sq. feet with 17 plants total! We have selected the perfect balance to bring butterflies to your outdoor space and for you to enjoy year after year. Or maybe you want Color - Color - Color, with our Long Blooming Garden Plans you get just that! Our Heirloom Cottage Gardens are designed to show you color with the perfect balance of plants that compliment each other. Our Large Long Blooming Cottage Garden needs about 80sq feet with 51 plants total or the small Long Blooming Cottage Garden needs about 20sq feet with 12 plants total. Heritage Flower Farm is here to help you with all of your heirloom gardening needs, planning gardens for you to fit your outdoor space and budget!