Gardens at Heather Farm

The Gardens at Heather Farm 6 acres (24,000 m²) are a relatively new set of gardens located in Walnut Creek, California, USA, with sweeping view of Mount Diablo, and open to the public 7 days a week during daylight hours. Its gardens 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 a 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