We call the lowest of our three terraces the Orange and Purple Garden. One of my favorite color combinations on the Main Terrace: ‘Magic Carpet’ spiraea, ‘Gold Heart’ bleeding-heart, and Spanish bluebells emerging from a silver-variegated ornamental grass. Plein Air painters come to capture it on canvas every year. Michael’s pride and joy and a major feature of the Main Terrace is our gorgeous wisteria. The Main Terrace outside the front door in early spring. It is mostly a winter garden filled with snowdrops, snowflakes, hardy cyclamen, winter aconite, and other early bulbs. On the way down the stairs, you pass the entrance to the Main Rock Garden. During our last open house, visitors were overheard referring to “the team of workers who take care of the gardens.” We are still laughing and wondering when our team will arrive! Michael does most of the maintenance, and I help when I can. That way my husband Michael and I can communicate about garden maintenance. All the areas of our garden have names, which I will capitalize. Stone stairs lead from the nursery area, past the original entrance to the two-room gardener’s cottage that is now our home, to the Main Terrace. The photographs used in this post were taken from 2010 to 2019. One longtime customer even brought his copy over so I could autograph the Carolyn’s Shade Gardens page! I thought it would be fun to give my readers, especially my international followers, a more in depth photographic tour of Carolyn’s Shade Gardens. Many of our customers have already purchased it and are looking forward to putting it to use. We are so honored to be included in this wonderful garden resource. The Carolyn’s Shade Gardens page from The Garden Tourist.
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For catalogues and announcements of events, please send your full name, location, and cell number (for back up use only) to Click here to get to the home page of our website for catalogues and information about our nursery and to subscribe to our blog. The only plants that we ship are snowdrops to US customers only. Nursery News: Carolyn’s Shade Gardens is a retail nursery located in Bryn Mawr, PA, specializing in showy, colorful, and unusual plants for shade. As a sample, here are the featured Pennsylvania gardens and nurseries: Ambler Arboretum, Bartram’s Garden, Carolyn’s Shade Gardens, Chanticleer, Highlands Mansion & Garden, Hortulus Farm Garden & Nursery, Longwood Gardens, Meadowbrook Farm, Shofuso Japanese Garden, Scott Arboretum, Terrain, and Wyck Garden. I have visited, photographed, and written about many of the destinations included in the book, so, from personal experience, I can say that they are well-chosen. You can purchase The Garden Tourist on Amazon here, or at Valley Forge Flowers in Wayne, Pennsylvania, if you are local. This book is a great resource for those of us who love to visit gardens as it covers Maine through Pennsylvania with detailed information on each entry, including photos, suggested daily itineraries, and nearby restaurants. Carolyn’s Shade Gardens has been selected as one of the 120 must visit destination gardens and nurseries in the Northeast United States in the wonderful guidebook The Garden Tourist by Jana Milbocker.
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