On Saturday morning, my friend was here at 8:15AM and we headed west on our road trip. Our destination was the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge, Mass. It’s a 24 acre area with 25 different types of gardens. We arrived at 9:30 and started exploring with the help of the map.
We started with the entry garden, checked out the passive solar greenhouse then crossed the road to other gardens.
There we checked out the extensive mixed border garden on our way to the herb production garden. There was another herb garden nearby and we spent a good amount of time looking at that one. It was terraced and had lots of interesting beds of herbs and flowers. There was even a deep pink hollyhock in one and the walls of that one had multiple bleeding hearts growing out of the stones.
We saw the above plant in many beds but were unable to identify it. Anyone know what it is? Its foliage is below.
We had tried out the app that identifies plants but had a 50-50 success rate. After that we just tried to find identity plaques or guess ourselves.
I had wanted to see the rose garden but I think June was the month for that as most of the bushes were bare of flowers. From there we went to Lucy’s garden that had several topiaries of animals and birds.
Martha Stewart had designed a garden that I wanted to check out. I was rather disappointed with it. It was supposed to be an old fashioned cottage garden, but I didn’t see many of the plants one would expect in such a planting.
We started heading for the main building as it had a café for lunches. We went through a shade border and found this mosaic on a stone. The info is below.
We went through the Vista garden and arrived at the café. We had a nice lunch of Prosciutto and Gruyere on a baguette and Watermelon Feta salad. Then we went through the art exhibit and checked out the living wall inside the greeting area.
We crossed back across the road to see the Tree of 40 Fruit (it wasn’t looking too healthy and no sign of fruit) and then to look through several gardens (edible garden, children’s vegetable garden, and other small gardens) on our way to the Lexan greenhouse. That’s where they grow the plants for the gardens.
We couldn’t get into the greenhouse but looked in through the door. We were ready to go and made a stop at the Education building.
Inside we found these wondrous textile designs. They were huge framed sections of ideas for textiles and perhaps wallpaper. Once finished there we headed for the car. It was 1:30 and getting hot and we were tired from walking. The trip home was easy and pleasant.
When I got home I found my son getting ready to mulch the 4th walkway. He also went up and cut down all the sumac sprouts around the barn.
I was done for the day and put in the My Fair Lady DVD and watched that until bedtime.
So this is what the New Herb garden looks like now.
It’s a bit different from the weedy mess it was in June.
On Sunday I have to mow the yard and up by the barn. That takes 3 hours and I will be done in when I finish. I hope to sit and make new signage for the herb garden, but we will see.
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Hey dear the area is really big and all the flowers are looking lovely 🥰. And good to know that you guys used a plant detection app, but I am surprised that it was not accurate. I will suggest to you that you should use Google Lense for accurate detection. And it is built in in mobiles, hope that your mobile also has this feature.
Thanks for sharing ☺️
The flowers are really colourful and lovely. Thanks for sharing such a nice article
Wow! Very active around the garden in warm weather! Nice trip to the garden. But it’s more interesting to see your herb garden. Wanna have a herb garden one day!
Hello thank you for bringing us this interesting publication, I like botanical gardens, although where I live there is only one left, it is very neglected, and I have never visited it because of the surrounding insecurity, I would love to visit one day one or many, and in different countries, it must be a wonderful experience, I like nature.
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Nothing like taking a break and getting off of the farm for a day or so. Everything is looking great. With the amount of yard you have to cut, I hope you have a sit on mower with a cup holder for a cold drink!
Yes, and yes. But I still have to push a mower to do the trim work.
Robin does the trimming with the hand mower. 😁