Visiting a Stunning Garden

This week Rob and I drove out to Northwind Perennial Farm, outside of Burlington WI. It's about a 45 minute drive for us, but well worth it.

I'd heard of Northwind through Erin@The Impatient Gardner. I love her garden style and videos, and she gardens in a similar zone, up in Port Washington, WI, just north of Milwaukee. Erin has worked with the garden designer of Northwinds, Roy Diblik, to design a wonderful woodland garden at her home. 

The gardens at Northwind are a combination of woodland and prairie, which is very similar to our property.

 

Best of all, though --they had an entire garden designed under black walnut trees. I have struggled with what to grow under our beautiful black walnuts, so it was really nice to see plants that were thriving in that environment. There is a lot more information about juglone-tolerant plants now than when I started gardening here 25 years ago, which is great. But I still worry about investing in plants in that area, so this was so nice to walk around in, and make some notes. 

And of course I came home with some walnut-tolerant plants to try out :-) It will be fun to make a trip next spring, and see what the gardens look like in that season.