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Don’t Miss The Show!

It’s March — and each sunny day is coaxing forth new daffodils in the Village Center! Large and small-cupped, fragrant, miniature, ranging in colors from peach to white to deep gold, the gardeners add...

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Planning for Summer

While the past few weeks may have still been blustery and cold outside, within the cozy confines of our glass greenhouse the gardeners at Fearrington have been busy planning–and planting!–for warmer...

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Evergreen Clematis

Blooming as early as February some years, the delicate-looking, but tough evergreen vine Clematis armandii has become one of our early spring favorites here in the gardens at Fearrington. Fat buds open...

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Cutting Gardens

Our new perennial cutting garden beds are in full bloom! Built this past January, the beds are full of favorites that will produce until first frost. Upkeep on the beds with fresh topsoil 10 inches...

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Pineapple Lillies

Ample summer rains and the return of sunshine has brought out a spectacular display of pineapple lilies (Eucomis sp.) to Fearrington’s gardens this year! With their Dr. Seuss-like flowers and striking...

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The Lenten Roses

One of the most admired and remarked-upon features of the late winter gardens at Fearrington is the astounding collection of hellebores or Lenten roses (helleborus x hybridus) to be found in the dry...

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Naked Ladies Return to Fearrington

That’s what they’re called! Naked Ladies, Surprise Lilies, Magic Lilies — whichever common name you know them by, late summer is graced by the flowering of Lycoris species. Here in Fearrington’s...

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Self Seeding Annuals

If you walk behind the Inn Building you’ll notice a large flowering plant the size of a shrub – an African foxglove – that may seem a bit ‘out of place’ with the formal gardens around it. We’ve kept...

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Fall Colors

Look at this stunning composition between the Goat deli and the Bank at Fearrington – a tight space smaller than a Cooper Mini but layered with hydrangea, lirope, coleus and various groundcovers. The...

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Mama Fitch Asters

Fall brings new colors throughout Fearrington Village, whether its the warm hued leaves or fresh pops of purple! In several gardens at Fearrington, including The Fearrington Granary’s patio, you’ll...

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A Fall Show from Our Gardens

It may be cloudy and drizzly outside, but with dozens of different camellias in bloom, the gardens at Fearrington are exploding with color! Fragrant fall-blooming sasanquas — like “Sparkling Burgundy”...

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Mums the Word

Taller, softer, and more graceful than the pampered mums sold everywhere at this time of year, perennial mums like “Sheffield Pink,” seen here in front of Fearrington’s home and accessories shop,...

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Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Pumpkinfest!

Lumineers, Jarrehdales, Fairytales and Sugar Pies — the Fearrington Gardeners were at the Raleigh Farmers Market last week in search of the perfect pumpkins for this year’s Pumpkinfest! We’ve found...

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Extending that Halloween Feeling

Our Halloween Gladiolus are blooming by The Fearrington Granary, just about a week too late for their namesake holiday! These quirky plants get their “Halloween” name for their orange color and wacky...

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Dressing Flower Buckets for the Season

For winter, we fill our galvanized French flower buckets by the Fearrington House Inn entrance with cheerful small pansies and hardy ivies with very finely cut leaves. This year, we planted multi-hued...

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Winter Cheer

These trees in front of McIntyre’s Books are Ilex verticillata, also known as winterberry. They – two females and a male pollinator  – where planted when the bookstore was “planted” 24 years ago, and...

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Bark in the Winter Garden

Late winter is the perfect time to take a closer look at tree bark and the beauty it adds to the winter landscape. Here in the Gardens, we have a stunning variety of trees clothed in ornamental bark....

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It’s Spring Inside

The Fearrington gardeners were excited to attend this year’s annual Nursery and Landscape Professionals Trade Show in Greensboro, where they could see the latest new plant introductions and exchange...

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Citrus Near You

A row of Hardy Orange (Poncirus Trifoliata) can be found right across from The Fearrington House Inn reception and is particularly beautiful this time of year. Their twisting branches and orange fruit...

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Snow and Cold, but…

Fragrant Winter Daphne just waiting for a warm day to burst into bloom. Soon!

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