Premier garden
White Flower Farm show garden
For the past few years, we've celebrated the arrival of the solstice with a road trip to Litchfield, Connecticut, the home of White Flower Farm, which I've long considered one of the world's premier garden shops. Alas, now that I'm semi-retired, "premier" is often out of my price range, but, in what I suppose is WFF's own celebration of the impending solstice, the venerable business stages a yard sale and offers a wide variety of spectacular plants at bargain basement prices. This year, as in year's past, we came, we shopped, and we went home with a lot of good stuff. We also made a day of it and walked the show and display gardens, which are perfectly well organized, unbelievably neat, and, well, drop-dead gorgeous. One can dream.