White Flower Farm

10/20/2026

That’s great Cosmos, but it’s Oct 20 - where have you been all season?

10/18/2026

It’d be hard to name a Tulip group that we don’t dabble in, but the Lily-Flowered group (the RHS’s Division 6 for those scoring at home) is a particular favorite. This flower form is particularly elegant and looks terrific en masse or sprinkled into a mixed planting. They’re mostly late-season bloomers with a huge range of colors to choose from.

10/17/2026

Some last roguing and note-taking before digging ramps up. No hard frost yet but we’ll bump up against it this weekend, then a stretch of sunny and dry - harvest weather!

10/13/2026

Featuring our pals at Hidden Gem Orchard!

Esopus Spitzenburg, Cornish Gilliflower, Hubbardston Nonesuch: Antique varieties, with names recalling Dickensian villains, are packed with fresh flavor and texture.

10/08/2026

Rage is a strong word - I’d say we are strenuously objecting to the dying of the light. And it’s fun to take note of which characters perk up as the temperatures drift down. Gomphrena ‘Audray White’, we see you.

10/05/2026

We have a number of Japanese Anemones in our gardens and ‘Honorine Jobert’ here, like ‘Robustissima’, toes the line of being too vigorous for its own good. That said, it sure is a lovely sight as the garden around it goes quiet.

10/02/2026

It’s time for our annual grandstanding about the merits of species . And I couldn’t resist throwing in a spectacular new-to-us Triumph called ‘Jeu d’Amour’, last photo. Triumphs are not as perennial as these other less highly bred forms but more perennial than many modern cultivars. This is all relative of course - your winters, your soils (and the drainage thereof), your pest pressures - these are among the factors that will ultimately dictate how many years of performance you can reasonably expect. All that said, seek out perennial types and you get more flowers per hole dug - what’s not to like about that?

10/01/2026

We can all use more Goldenrod, no? This is Solidago sphacelata ‘Golden Fleece’ lighting up the front of the garden in the home stretch. This is a Mt. Cuba Center introduction (of garden origin) that tops out around 24” tall and sees notable pollinator traffic beginning in late summer.