Meeting Location Update: Please note we are NOT meeting at Notre Dame to carpool. We will meet at White Flower Farm at 10:00AM to start the tour.
White Flower Farm is located at 167 Litchfield Road, Morris, CT. Please bring your lunch. (Note: Garden Club Members and their guests only). Please bring a mask. Although masks are not currently mandated for vaccinated persons when outside, Susan is still checking with White Flower Farm to learn more about their policy for masking while on their property and in the store.
White Flower Farm nursery in Morris, CT isn’t your average garden center. Our store is surrounded by trial and display gardens set across several acres in the picturesque hills of Northwest CT. We welcome visitors from around the world between April and November. Our gardens serve to entice, teach and inspire gardeners of all ability levels. Our experienced staff looks forward to helping each and every visitor imagine the possibilities of a great home garden.
We've arranged for a guided walking tour to highlight the grounds and gardens, which will give a bit of insight into the history and operation of the nursery. There is a map on the website with numbered stops that will provide an overview of what we will see on our tour.
The house on the north side of Esther's Road was a barn when William Harris and Jane Grant, two writers from New York City, purchased the 1 1/3-acre lot upon which it sat in the late 1930s. These industrious weekenders wasted no time in renovating the barn into a country residence, then turned their energies to the landscape. White Flower Farm takes its name from their first perennial border, the all-white garden known as the Moon Garden, which still occupies its original site. A pair of Wisteria floribunda standards there bloom in May.
After the tour, we can visit the store. The store carries a multitude of plants not listed in the catalog, including conifers, flowering trees, native shrubs, a wide variety of roses and more perennials than can be listed.
Additional information may be found at www.whiteflowerfarm.com