Barn Charm - Tovah's Toy Barn

Here's another barn from a 1990s garden tour of New England. Last week I shared a huge barn/greenhouse/garden just outside Sturbridge, Massachuttes. This week we've moving on to Danielson, Connecticut for a look at Tovah Martin's "toy" farm. If you are a serious gardener, especially in the New England area, you may be familiar with the writings of horticulturalist and plants woman Tovah Martin. She has written many books on gardening, columns for gardening magazines and has a gardening blog. She also worked at two great gardening institutions: Logee's Nursery in Danielson and White Flower Farm in Leitchfield, CT. Their catalogs are my favorites for garden plants. On the day we visited Tovah's garden we walked up this graveled driveway. All around the yard and barn plants grew in wild abandon. This property was about seven acres and Tovah does all the work. She is a dedicated organic gardener.

Here's Tovah in her front yard garden in her 1950s print shirtwaists and lace up boots. You can see why "small" would appeal to her:

Here's a better view of the house--notice no curtains and the weed sickle mounted on wall by the door:

In this photo you can see that the barn is joined to the house by a greenhouse passage where many houseplants were thriving:

Finally, as a special treat, Tovah demonstrated a large variety of floral arrangements--all loose and casual and made up from unexpected plants from her garden:

If you are wild about gardening and plants, you may enjoy spending time trolling these two websites: Logee's Nursery  and  White Flower Farm .

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