Heritage Flower Farm Growing Heirloom Perennial Flowering Plants
Bittersweet - The Symbol of Fall
Wisconsin's Fall season is a burst of color before the work to prepare for the longish winter ahead. Gardeners enjoy the final touches of colors their spring and summer gardening efforts are providing. Preparing your garden areas for spring is very important before the first of winter arrives. Mulching and tending to the soil, protecting plants that need a little help, even bringing some plants inside to enjoy further before they fall to their winter sleep, this is the joy of Wisconsin gardening and gardening everywhere.
Heritage Flower Farm provides hardy perennials that are ready for winter no matter where you are but planning your spring gardening changes can start now as you watch your 2011 work brown in the short days and cold nights of fall. Look around to ask yourself:
- Was there a period where you did not see enough color on an area?
- Is there a bare spot where a Calamagrostis brachytricha or Diamond Grass would fit perfectly to enjoy its subtle pale pink plumes from September to November?
- Are you thinking you need more reds like the Aquilegia canadensis commonly known as Canada Columbine can provide, or dazzling chartreuse flowers in spring followed by red, purple and orange foliage in fall that Euphorbia Polychroma commonly known as Cushion Spurge will give?
Start planning now and work through it all winter long. Betty will be happy to hear from you on Heritage Flower Farms Facebook page to answer questions and share discussions. Not a Facebook Fan? That's ok just email badelman@wi.rr.com for answers to all of your heirloom gardening questions. If you can't be in your garden the next best thing is talking about it, planning additions and even subtractions to make the 2012 garden enjoyable and more than the last.
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!
Enjoy and Participate in Milwaukee's Monarch Trail Events
All Monarch Trail events meet at the Kiosk—Parks Department Headquarters, 9280 W. Watertown Plank Rd., Wauwatosa. Further details are available for August and September events at the themonarchtrail.org website. Volunteers wanted for organizing -- contact information: barb@414-454-0222 or LuAnn@414-324-6586. Check out all Heritage Flower Farm Summer Events and Monarch Trail Events schedule.