Gardens at Heather Farm

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The Gardens at Heather Farm 6 acres (24,000 m²) are a relatively new set of gardens located in Walnut Creek, California, USA, with sweeping view of Mount Diablo, and open to the public 7 days a week during daylight hours. Its gardens currently include:

Black Pine Garden (1989) - a small garden, including a bonsai Japanese Black Pine, and bonsai Colorado Blue Spruce.

Butterfly Garden (1996) - includes a hedge of escallonia with milkweed, passion vines, and Mexican sunflowers.

Children's Garden (1990) - grapes and goldflame honeysuckle. Much of the garden is planted each spring with edible produce.

Cowden Rose Garden (1991) - Gazebo with Tea rose and Floribunda roses, among a variety of rose displays.

Diablo Ascent Garden (1996).

Meadow Garden (1995) - rose hedge, background greenery, and conifers, with cape plumbago and pittosporum shrubs, and a hedge of Japanese rugosa shrub roses.

Mother's Garden (1996) - 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 (1990) - 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 (1983).

Ree Display Grove (1995) - daffodils and twelve types of trees representing uncommon candidates for use in a home garden.

Riparian Garden (1992) - original valley oak trees, corkscrew leaf willows, birch, purpleleaf plum, liquidambar, vine maple, hemerocallis, buddleia, and ochna.

Rockery (1990) - 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.