Adams Garden in Nampa, Idaho

Adams Nursery employees recommend waiting until weather patterns stabilize before planting annuals outdoors; at the earliest, they recommend waiting until early March.

Garden features box hedging, flower beds, and fruit trees, yet its size makes it manageable.

Location

Adams Garden is a family-owned and operated business situated at the corner of Greenhurst and Happy Valley Roads in Nampa, Idaho. They specialize in offering top-quality garden supplies at competitive prices, including flower bulbs, annuals, trees, landscaping shrubs and perennials, and vegetable seeds and plants – plus all types of gardening tools and accessories!

President John and Abigail Adams’ gardens at their home offer an outstanding example of nineteenth-century “country” gardening style, featuring box hedging and formal beds as well as an orchard and vegetable garden. Open to the public, guided tours are also available to explore this impressive space.

This garden, designated a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Congress in 2008, served as home to Abigail and John Adams for almost 70 years and was inspired by gardens from across Europe, where their family traveled during Abigail’s lifetime. Today, it serves as an interpretation of Victorian gardening with some Arts & Crafts style elements.

This garden served as the inspiration for the award-winning movie The Scarlet Letter. Its lush beauty and tranquillity reflect its owners’ strong appreciation of literature and art, offering visitors a peaceful space to relax while taking in beautiful sights and learning about history and culture – worth checking out when in Williamsburg!

Jim Adams joined the U.S. Botanic Garden’s Horticulture team as Manager of horticulture in May 2021 and quickly earned recognition in DC’s horticultural scene, having spent eight years as Supervisory Horticulturist at the White House, where he oversaw all horticultural activities as President’s residence, as well as managing staff responsible for White House grounds, care.

Jim is committed to preserving and enhancing the landscape, gardens, and collections at the U.S. Botanic Gardens as an essential cultural and scientific resource for all. He’s looking forward to working alongside his new colleagues while learning more about this incredible place!

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The garden is open daily from dawn to dusk for free and provides a beautiful setting for strolling and picnicking, featuring fish-stocked ponds and an abundance of wildlife to be seen. Families and children will especially love coming here! In addition, Master Gardeners host programs open to all visitors, while free group garden tours with two weeks’ notice are also offered.

Adams Garden in Nampa, Idaho, is a full-service nursery and garden center offering everything a gardener could need for his or her projects – decorative bark to ornamental grasses to hundreds of trees in different varieties – even starting mid-spring they begin receiving vegetables at their greenhouse!

Adam is expanding his vegetable patch this year by cultivating blackberries – something he’s long loved and was inspired to do after meeting an enthusiastic blackberry farmer at the Chelsea Flower Show.

He’s trying to get ahead with his vegetable gardening by sowing a few butterbaby squash seeds in pots. To ensure proper water drainage from these holes in the soil, holes 3cm deep were dug and sources placed within before covering with peat-free compost.

The garden offers an ideal setting for picnicking and features multiple benches throughout its grounds. In addition, you’ll see plaques commemorating members of The College of William & Mary community who donated their ashes for spread here – providing an atmosphere conducive to contemplation and relaxation. It indeed provides a tranquil, soothing setting.

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At this former farm in a picturesque Columbia County valley, an 1835 farmhouse stands within courtyard gardens that have been created since. Garden beds, an orchard, cutting gardens, and vegetable plots speak volumes of their former life as part of farming traditions; a pond and natural ravine with wildflowers and shrubs create an uplifting sense of place.

Abby Adams, a writer and decorator, and Donald Westlake (crime novelist) created their garden together in the late 1980s after traveling around Europe. Drawing inspiration from their travels, the design features homely interpretations of Victorian gardens with Arts and Crafts influences; Abby and Donald’s love of Italy was evident in their planting choices, which featured sandstone paving, box hedging with arbutus, rosemary hedges, olive trees, lavenders, and aloes for added effect.

Adam Frost gave viewers a tour of his “scaled back” garden on this week’s Gardeners’ World episode, unveiling new features and planting schemes. Adam showed viewers his greenhouse, a seating area under trees, and a rustic fire pit. In addition, Adam planted tulips and alliums and even started his veggie patch!

Adams Garden provides more than just great gardening products; their knowledgeable team also has extensive gardening expertise. Adams Garden would be happy to assist if you need help with hydrangeas or worry about an unusual fungus on an old elm tree. Bring in samples for them to identify!

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Adams Homestead, built around an eighteenth-century house (1731) and occupied by five generations of the Adams family since 1731, including two American presidents, features an 18th-century style garden designed by Abigail Adams as second First Lady, inspired by European travels – creating an Arts and Crafts inspired park featuring box hedging, flower beds, an orchard and even boxed borders for maximum privacy!

Adams Garden is a non-profit educational organization in central Pennsylvania dedicated to improving the quality of life through gardening and landscape design. Their volunteer Master Gardeners from Penn State University Extension in Adams County share research-based horticultural information freely with members of the public – this free service offers help with every aspect of home gardening.

Adams Garden is a member of the Garden Club of America. Their Maida Babson Adams American Garden Collection contains 7,606 slides, photographic prints, negatives and transparencies documenting close to 400 gardens that Molly (Maida Babson) Adams photographed during her career as a free-lance garden photographer between the 1950s and 1990s; such gardens included Alice Recknagel Ireys Gardens, Nelva M Weber Gardens and Friede Stege Gardens – although many remain anonymous as far as location or client; though some film envelopes or contact sheets contain information such as cropping marks or developing notes written on them that identify specific gardens if applicable.

The garden is an idyllic space filled with vibrant plants and flowers of every variety, an elegant greenhouse, a hidden seating area, a vegetable patch, and a fire pit. Additionally, Adam had some extra space available for planting some tulips and alliums for next spring; unfortunately, while growing, Ash interrupted him!