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Theme Gardens at The Purple
Gate Herb Farm Ancient Garden  Our
Ancient Garden includes plants with a
long history in the literature of many different countries. This garden
includes tansy, rosemary, lavender, yarrow and many other plants known
to the Ancient Greeks, Romans, Chinese, and Egyptians. The surprising
thing about these plants, like yarrow, is that people continents apart
found similar culinary and medicinal uses for these plants and that
these same plants are still in use today.
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| Here are some plants that we enjoy in the kitchen | Culinary
Garden This was our
first theme garden. We use these plants in the kitchen as we learn
about others. This garden has evolved into a "cottage" garden with
vegetables and flowers complimenting the herbs.
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| We recycle when we can. This pond is a revitalized old satellite dish. | Fragrance
Garden This
is a favorite place to sit and watch our solar
powered fountain in a pond made from a recycled satellite dish. We
concentrate the most fragrant plants in this area.
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| We love to sit on the porch in the early morning for breakfast. | Japanese
Garden Bud has
dreamed of making a Japanese Garden
for years. We finally got this one started. The challenges have been to
keep the quiet spirit of the garden and find plants that will do well
in this area. We are incorporating evergreen and perennial herbs to
keep with our overall emphasis on herbs. This we hope will encourage
people to use herbs in a variety of ways in their garden plans.
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| In the early morning while we are weeding we stop to enjoy the changing gardens. | Medicinal
Garden Can you identify the beneficial or the toxic plants here?If not, maybe a tour to The Purple Gate Farm will help.The Medicinal Garden is the most popular of
our gardens. Here you will find echinacea, foxglove, comfrey, feverfew,
mullein and other favorites. So much publicity has been given to the
use of medicinal herbs that people want to know more. Sadly, there is a
lot of misleading information about the benefits of herbs as
medicinals. I include a survey of many of the past uses of specific
plants in my booklets and include bibliographies to resources that I
think are very reliable.
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| The wildflowers are a special treat. |
Garden Flowers and Texas Wildflowers Texas
wildflowers grow all around us. We have selected some to incorporate
into our other gardens. The benefits of low water requirements and
exceptional beauty make the Texas Wildflowers a great addition to any
garden in this area.
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| We are happy to see others enjoy the gardens. | A
Butterfly Garden is in the Works Some of
our other gardens include a Myth
and Magic Garden, our Shakespeare Garden is well under way and the Tea
Garden yields many pots of tea for our guests and visitors. The
Biblical Garden is one of the most difficult to establish
since many of the sources do not agree on which plants to include.
It is a fascinating search and when I find information about a plant I want to include in any of the theme gardens, I try to find out as much as I can about it. Then if I can find it, I plant it in my test garden where I can keep an eye on it. I sometimes buy several of the plants and plant them in different locations to see how they will do. This is the best way to know if a plant will do well in our part of the country. I find that a lot of information on growing specific plants was written for other parts of the country, and even books with recommendations for Texas may not apply to our location (Texas is a big state.) Some plants that should not grow here, (according to the books) have done surprisingly well. Others that were recommended for Texas did so poorly, we stopped trying to grow them here. As some Texans say---Ya-all come and see us...y'hear? |
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The
Purple Gate Herb Farm Garden Tours Our display gardens
demonstrate how the plants look when mature, encourage customers to try
growing new plants and provide us with the opportunity to offer
informative garden tours.
Please remember this is an outdoor experience We offer our garden tours March, April, May, June, and October. We do NOT offer tours July, August, September, (too HOT) and November or December (the weather is too unpredictable.) The
Purple Gate Farm Gift Shop
We provide potted
herb plants, Texas wildflowers, as well as Raku
pottery to our customers.Individuals are welcome to come to visit our gardens and shop. Hours for our shop: 9 A.M. TO 6 P.M. Be sure to call, we want to be here to help you select your plants or items from our shop. 1-979-567-9824 To find out about our Tours To arrange a tour for your group Contact Us email us at pgherbfarm@aol.com |
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