Farrells Earn Garden of the Month Honors

MIDDLEBURGH — September's Garden of the Month is presented to Rob & Jackie Farrell in Middleburgh!

They live in a beautiful home that was built in 1888,surrounded by lush & gorgeous gardens! Rob plans each garden with a lot of thought,love care,and design along with hard work. Rob has worked on these gardens with many years in the making, our gardens change over the years too.   Jackie helps with choosing which plants fit together best,she has such a way with colors,textures & design,she is a florist after all and it shows in  her window boxes, decorating her porch with autumn mums and pumpkins and such! just Beautiful..Rob & Jackie work so well together, their ideas bounce off of one another.

Lining the front porch there are many hydrangeas,on the left side of the porch there are ornamental grasses, on the other side are hostas.     Rob has an extensive vegetable garden with 100's of Zinnias (planted by seed) surrounding the outside  of the garden like a picket fence. The veggies include: Beets,Kale,frying peppers and hot ones, Pole Beans,Red plump tomatoes ,yellow grape tomatoes & much more. Rob loves to can and freeze his bounty of vegetables for the winter, also loves to put everything he harvests into his cooking!

There were also Grape Vines & blueberry Bushes, they pick their bounty and also leave some for the Birds!

There are many trees and bushes around the yard, Lilacs, Rose of Sharon, Winterized Quince, Mock Orange , crab Apple, Dog Wood, Peony rose Bushes , Forsythias, weigela, Beauty Bush, Bridal Veil on the edge of their property.

Towards the front left side there is a lovely garden with Lavender, Salvia, sedum, Huchero, globe thistle coral bells, yarrow, ornamental grasses including zebra grass. Russian Sage, Cosmos, and last but not least Wooly Thyme,like a plush carpet of greens ..Every turn you take there is something different to see,your eyes will be mesmerized.

Rob was gracious enough to give us a tour of their property, thank you Rob & Jackie for your warm and generous hospitality.

For information about Schoharie Valley Garden Club, or to nominate a garden for consideration for Garden of the Month call 518-827-7014.