Shelburne Farms: The Market Garden
On the second day, we also spent time walking around the market gardens at Shelburne farms. In this space they raise all the fruits, vegetables, and flowers used in the restaurants on site as well as to sell in the local farmers market. It’s quite an amazing garden, we thoroughly enjoyed touring this real working farm.
In addition to this large space filled with high tunnels, beds of flowers, herbs, fruits, and vegetables, they had several large fields that were planted in cover crops. From what we were told, they rotate vegetables and cover crops in order to maintain a more sustainable system. If you ever happen to get to Shelburne Farms in Vermont, make sure you go off the beaten path and find your way to the Market Garden.
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The Formal Garden
The Edible Garden
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Shelburne Farms: The Formal Gardens
On the second day, we went back to Shelburne farms for a tour of the house and gardens followed by afternoon tea. The formal gardens are fairly new, they’re currently being restored to their former glory. There’s a long way to go yet, to get them back to their prime, but there is still a lot of beauty in them. The perennial borders and the rose garden were both very lovely. I really love the hardscaping in a formal garden. It’s generally quite an expense, which is probably why I appreciate it. I know that I will never had hardscaping that comes close to the amazing things seen in this garden.
I loved this giant plant by the back door, I’m not sure what it is (perhaps one of you will know), but I must get some for my garden. With the size/scale of my garden, this plant would fit right in here!
Inside the house there were arrangements here and there, all lovely and all from the gardens, many from the market garden cutting garden.
This garden will get better and better as the years go by. Our guide was telling us about the future plans to restore certain areas. The peony garden and rose garden will fill in and look better and better with each passing year. Shelburne Farms is a must visit if you’re a gardener.
What’s your favorite formal garden feature?
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The Market Garden
The Edible Garden
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Shelburne Farms: The Edible Garden
The first day we went to Shelburne Farms was spent looking around the barns, talking to the cows, pigs, chickens, and touring the potager behind the big barn. It’s a lovely space, filled with perennial fruits and vegetables and a wide variety of annual vegetables and flowers as well. The design was nice, informal, but very productive and well done.
I hope you enjoyed that tour of the edible gardens.
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The Market Garden
The Formal Garden
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Shelburne Farms
The first week of August I was in Vermont with a friend. We rented a little cabin on Lake Champlain and spent four days relaxing and visiting a few interesting places in the area.
The first day we went to Shelburne Farms, which is a fantastic place to spend a day or weekend. The first day we toured the barn, ate dinner from the food truck in the barnyard (featuring food grown on the farm), toured the formal gardens by the house, and did a cheese tasting of their award winning cheeses.
It was lovely, we enjoyed it so much we purchased tickets for tea and a house tour for the following day and went back. The edible gardens were lovely, I’ll be posting a few series of photos in the coming days to show you the various gardens at the farm.
What are some of your favorite vacation garden visits?
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The Market Garden
The Formal Garden
The Edible Garden
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E.I. DuPont Potager at Hagley
After going through photos to find one of the compost pile in the potager at the Hagely Museum for my post yesterday, I realized I had never shared photos of my visits to this garden from last year. I was able to visit the garden in mid-June with my mom and in mid-Sept with Mr Chiots. On my second visit, I didn’t take my camera, so all of these images are from my earlier visit.
I’m always happy to see gardens being restored at these old homes. The potagers and edible garden spaces are of particular interest to me. This is one is quite lovely, they have done a fantastic job making it both beautiful and useful.
I especially loved the formal walkways in this garden, I’ve been thinking of adding something similar in my main vegetable garden once I get the size finalized. The espaliers, trellises, pruned fruit trees, and other high features provide so much interest in the garden. I’d love to see this space in the winter to really be able to appreciate the interest they bring during the dormant season. This is one area I need to work on in my garden space, especially the edible space. Just because a garden is a working garden providing food doesn’t mean it can’t be a beautiful space both during the productive season and during winter.
What’s your favorite feature in this garden?
