New Preservation Partner: Hortulus Farm & Nursery

In early December, the Garden Conservancy board of directors approved designation of Hortulus Farm as the latest addition to our portfolio of Preservation partner gardens, an expansion to what has already been a strong working relationship between the two organizations.

Hortulus, a 100-acre property in Pennsylvania’s scenic Bucks County, has been a popular destination in our Open Days program since 2000. Hortulus Farm is the creation of garden writer Jack Staub and garden and event designer Renny Reynolds. Jack also serves as our Open Days regional representative for Bucks County.

Hortulus includes an eighteenth-century farmstead and nursery operation and a stone house that is on the National Register of Historic Places. Designed and built as a public space, Hortulus boasts tweny-four distinct gardens, connected by a network of trails running through a wide diversity of unusual and native perennial plants. The nursery is an attraction in itself, making rare and hard-to-find stock available to enthusiastic and devoted customers.

A recent visitor to Hortulus Farm produced this "visual poem" that beautifully captures the unique qualities of the gardens.