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Claude Moore Colonial Farm
6310 Georgetown Pike •  McLean, VA 22101 •  703-442-7557
 

A visit to the Claude Moore Colonial Farm is a visit to another world ...the world of an 18th Century family living on a small,
low-income farm just prior to the Revolutionary War.

The year is 1771 ... won't you come and visit?


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Horticulture Program and Plant Sales

 The Horticulture Program at the Claude Moore Colonial Farm started with our need to produce heirloom plants for the 18th century living history farm. Over the years, we sold the excess plants to offset the cost of operating our greenhouse and we began to gather a volunteer group of dedicated plant enthusiasts.

From 1999 through 2002 we received grants from the Loughran Foundation and the George and Fay Young Foundation to renovate and expand our production facility. We now have 1500 square feet "under cover", a 14 x 28 ft. building for year round workspace and classes and an acre of garden space for display and outdoor production of plants.

Our season begins in February with cuttings and seeds in the greeenhouse. This is the beginning of our production season working toward our big opening event, the Spring Plant Sale on the last Friday and Saturday of April. We welcome both occasional and permanent volunteers to our Horticulture Group at any time.

The plants we grow are generally heirloom or the newest and best in the industry. We personally grow everything we sell so we have tested it and like it or we don't sell it, no matter how popular it may currently be. We grow a full range of perennial flowers, annual and perennial herbs, heirloom annuals and vegetable transplants and some herbaceous shrubs. We have a fondness for fragrant plants, tender perennials that are great for containers, coleus and heirloom impatiens and plants for shade and part shade.

For information about the Farm's Horticulture Program, please contact aeberly@1771.org.

 

Plants for Spring 2010

For further information, contact aeberly@1771.org.

Tomatoes:

1884
Amish Gold
Better Boy
Big Rainbow
Black Brandywine
Black Cherry
Black Krim
Bloody Butcher
Bonny Best
Brandywine
Brandywine (Sudduth's strain)
Cherokee Purple
Dagma's Perfection
Early Girl
German Johnson
German Pink
Golden Jubilee
Kellogg's Breakfast
Kentucky Beefsteak
Mortgage Lifter/Radiator Charlie
Oregon Spring
Patio
Pink Lemon
Principe Borghese
Pruden's Purple
Redfield Beauty
Roma
Rutgers
Sungold
Super Sweet 100
Trophy

Peppers:

Bell Boy
Big Red
California Wonder
Corno Di Toro
Early Jalapeno
Fish
Long Red Cayenne
Orange Sun Sweet
Purple Beauty
Thai

 

Eggplant:

Dusky
Black Beauty
Pingtung Long

Brassica:

Cauliflower - Cheddar, Violet Queen, White Amazing
Cabbage - Red Acre, Stonehead, Early Jersey Wakefield, Chieftan Savoy
Broccoli - DeCicco, Premium Crop
Brussels Sprouts - Diablo

Onion - Copra, Evergreen White Bunching

Leek - Lincoln, Large American Flag

Misc.:

Red Raspberries
Black Raspberries
Rhubarb,
Red Currants,
Alpine Strawberries,
Herbs,
Perennial Flowers for sun and shade and
Container Shrubs

 

 

 

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6310 Georgetown Pike, McLean, Virginia 22101 • 703-442-7557

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