Gardens at Heather Farm

Exposition

• Black Pine Garden - a small garden, including a bonsai Japanese black pine, and bonsai Colorado blue spruce.
• Butterfly Garden - includes a hedge of escallonia with milkweed, passion vines, and Mexican sunflowers.
• Children's Garden - grapes and goldflame honeysuckle. Much of the garden is planted each spring with edible produce.
• Cowden Rose Garden - Gazebo with tea rose and floribunda roses, among a variety of rose displays.
• Diablo Ascent Garden.
• Meadow Garden - rose hedge, background greenery, and conifers, with cape plumbago and pittosporum shrubs, and a hedge of Japanese rugosa shrub roses.
• Mother's Garden - a bench set under 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 - 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.
• Ree Display Grove - daffodils and twelve types of trees representing uncommon candidates for use in a home garden.
• Riparian Garden - original valley oak trees, corkscrew leaf willows, birch, purpleleaf plum, liquidambar, vine maple, hemerocallis, buddleia, and ochna.
• Rockery - 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.
• Ward Garden - a lawn of tall fescue grass, with five ornamental cherry trees.
• Water Conservation Garden.
• Waterfall Garden - eleven waterfalls, ponds, and two bridges.