ABOUT CSG

If you would like to be on our customer email list, please send your full name, mailing address, and cell number to carolyn@carolynsshadegardens.com and specify if you are interested in shopping at the nursery and/or snowdrops (mail order only). Thanks.

Carolyn’s Shade Gardens at Whitehall Farm is a retail nursery (mail order for snowdrops only) in Norristown, PA,  specializing in perennial flowering plants, trees, shrubs, and vines.  Plants are chosen to suit all types of conditions from full sun to full shade, but we specialize in the many showy and colorful flowers that flourish in part to full shade.  We also have a garden shop featuring high quality tools, planters, books, and garden-related gifts.

Our gardens are maintained organically, and we follow sustainable practices, including using biodegradable pots and peat-free soil, employing integrated pest management procedures, and collecting 10,000 gallons of rainwater for watering.   We grow over 50% of the plants we sell in our two large growing houses.  All our plants are low maintenance: they don’t need to be fertilized or sprayed in your garden and rarely require watering after the first year.  Every plant on our list flourishes in the Delaware Valley area on a low maintenance regime.

7 Responses to “ABOUT CSG”

  1. peggy's avatar
    peggy Says:
    November 4, 2010 at 8:50 pm

    Carolyn, we love to visit your gardens, it brings a smile to our faces every visit. Looking forward to the spring!!!! Congrats on setting up your blog..you are braver than me 🙂

    • Carolyn @ Carolyns Shade Gardens's avatar
      carolynsshadegardens Says:
      November 4, 2010 at 9:16 pm

      Hi Peggy. I love it when people take the time to walk around my gardens. I am pretty proud of myself for going beyond my comfort zone with computer stuff. However, WordPress makes the basics easy. Carolyn

  2. Margaret Brown's avatar
    Margaret Brown Says:
    November 4, 2010 at 9:10 pm

    What a great idea! The black backgrouond makes reading a little difficult for my aging eyes but I’ll keep trying. Certainly the green print is easier than white.
    Congratulations for persisting- and for the impressive result.

    • Carolyn @ Carolyns Shade Gardens's avatar
      carolynsshadegardens Says:
      November 4, 2010 at 9:23 pm

      Thanks for the kind words, Margaret. I won’t use purple font again. I think the real problem is the font size which I would like to enlarge. However, it turns out I would have to write html code to enlarge it–it’s not like Word or emailing (WordPress Support confirmed this). I am looking into other options. Carolyn

    • Carolyn @ Carolyns Shade Gardens's avatar
      carolynsshadegardens Says:
      November 6, 2010 at 4:16 pm

      Hello again Margaret. Based on your comments and those of others, I picked a different WordPress theme with bigger font and better definition. Please let me know what you think. Carolyn

  3. John's avatar
    John Says:
    December 15, 2010 at 11:09 am

    I was surprised to see some of things you still have in bloom at this season. Bryn Mawr must be a climate zone ahead of us. I’ve just bought the Jacob and hope to have it out next year…