Gardens at Heather Farm

The 6-acre (2.4 ha) Gardens at Heather Farm are a relatively new set of gardens located in Walnut Creek, California, United States, with sweeping view of Mount Diablo, and open to the public 7 days a week during daylight hours.

Ward Garden at Heather Farm Park

Exposition

Gardens at Heather Farm currently include:

  • Black Pine Garden (1989) - a small garden, including a bonsai Japanese black pine, and bonsai Colorado blue spruce.
  • Butterfly Garden (1996) - includes a hedge of escallonia with milkweed, passion vines, and Mexican sunflowers.
  • Children's Garden (1990) - grapes and goldflame honeysuckle. Much of the garden is planted each spring with edible produce.
  • Cowden Rose Garden (1991) - Gazebo with tea rose and floribunda roses, among a variety of rose displays.
  • Diablo Ascent Garden (1996).
  • Meadow Garden (1995) - rose hedge, background greenery, and conifers, with cape plumbago and pittosporum shrubs, and a hedge of Japanese rugosa shrub roses.
  • Mother's Garden (1996) - a bench set under Raywood Ash trees in an allée overlooking the Rose Garden, with creeping thyme, rhaphiolepis, violets, variegated society garlic, dwarf plumbago, sweet alyssum, a bearded iris from Bancroft Garden, statice, St John's wort, and artemisia.
  • Mural Garden (1990) - three African sumac trees, smoke tree, crape myrtles, a red horse chestnut tree, artemisia, verbena, strawberry trees, oleander, rockrose, berberis, verbena, gazania, thyme, coreopsis, and penstemon.
  • Native Plant Garden (1983).
  • Ree Display Grove (1995) - daffodils and twelve types of trees representing uncommon candidates for use in a home garden.
  • Riparian Garden (1992) - original valley oak trees, corkscrew leaf willows, birch, purpleleaf plum, liquidambar, vine maple, hemerocallis, buddleia, and ochna.
  • Rockery (1990) - an alpine garden, including miniature trees and conifers as well as perennials to emulate high elevation plantings. This garden contains plants suitable to Zone 14 that still appear alpine.
  • Sensory Garden - raised beds, water fountain and more than 75 fragrant herbs and plants interesting to touch.
  • Stroll Garden (1997).
  • Ward Garden (1989) - a lawn of tall fescue grass, with five ornamental cherry trees.
  • Water Conservation Garden (2004).
  • Waterfall Garden (2000) - eleven waterfalls, ponds, and two bridges.

See also
  • List of botanical gardens in the United States

References
  1. United States Geological Survey (22 November 1996). "GNIS Detail - Heather Farm Park". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2 January 2010.

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