Beatrix Farrand Garden Association

06/09/2026

Some lovely new inventory including perennial sea lavender, have dropped in our online plant shop! Give your garden a boost - we sell in small sizes so you can buy yourself a “drift” or two.
And then the best part - you have a great excuse to come enjoy the garden when you pick up your plants!

06/07/2026

Join us for an incredible afternoon of Bossa Nova music at the beautiful Beatrix Farrand Garden at Bellefield. Please feel free to bring food & drink to enjoy during the show.

Bossa Nova, which means “new wave”, is a style of samba music that was developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. Through the advent of Bossa Nova, Brazil was able to produce one of the most unique and enduring sounds in the history of Latin music.

Bossa Nova is distinct from other Samba subgenres, as it consists of a mixture of soft samba based on traditional Brazilian music and rhythms, American jazz, and a new style of Portuguese lyrics.

This concert is free and will be a memorable experience for music lovers of all ages.

BOREAL is a band that plays Brazilian Music in New York. With Mariana Barcellos on lead vocals and Gil Oliveira on percussion, both native from Brazil, joined by Timothy Hill on guitar, Steve Gorn on bamboo flutes and Gabriel Dresdale on cello, Boreal plays famous Bossa Nova tunes composed by Tom Jobim and Vinícius de Moraes, and other inspiring songs from various Brazilian composers.

06/04/2026

The “blush, cream, and silver” border is capturing everybody’s hearts this spring. Okay… some of those pinks are looking a little more than blush!
Beatrix Farrand carefully controlled color in her planting designs - in fact this is the only bed in our garden that isn’t really all shades of one color. The giant flower stalks of the yucca - like mammoth asparagus - make for an otherworldly contrast.

Public service announcement : The garden is at peak spring right now with the peonies at full blast! Come stick your nose in a peony! Golden hours of morning and evening are magic right now: )

05/31/2026

Shop our specialty selection of Farrand favorites - cottage garden annuals and perennials, featuring lots of great native perennials this year for under $10.

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All proceeds support our small non-profit.
All sales are virtual, with pickup on Sunday June 14th in the garden, when you can check out our evening bossa nova concert, artist working in the garden 11-3, or sign up for an afternoon ikebana class.

05/22/2026

When your horticulturist is in charge of social media, things can go a bit quiet in May!
But the garden has been aglow despite her lack of selfies. I hope you’ve gotten to come have a glimpse of her awakening into splendor!
I am particularly obsessed with the dark Camassias against the chartreuse fern foliage, the mixture of Tiarella and Dodaecatheon, and the sweet-as-sugar combination of pale blue Amsonia flowers with pink Geum and Pinxterbloom Azalea flowers. The backdrop of Beatrix’s stone walls make any plant look luxurious, and white tree peonies and Aquilegia in the long borders along the dark hedges is absolutely elegance. Come see us!

Comment for any species names you’d like, fellow garden nerds, in May this busy horticulturist has started with genus only!

04/22/2026

04/08/2026

Spring delights - all in one afternoon at the Beatrix Farrand Garden. We recommend crawling around in the grass to see these little beauties up close.

Note our original wooden doors are being restored as part of the Rejuvenation so getting in the West and East gates is tricky right now. The South gate door is all done and I’m working order!

03/10/2026

It’s happening!

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08/30/2025

Aster season is upon us in the Hudson Valley, and the first of our collection has just started to bloom! Can you guess the species of these three?