The Palmer House’s Cape Cod Herb Garden We are looking forward to some of the most beautiful gardens on Cape Cod this year (perhaps a little biased :). To be honest I’m not really an expert but this is how we put our garden together. Hopefully you can find some useful information or at least …
Read MoreThe pepper bush is native to coastal New England. The Palmer House has several of these bushes beside the entrance door. They are a pretty bush with oval green leaves and a cluster of white conically shaped blossoms. The flowers bloom in August and one of its most attractive features is its sweet delicate fragrance. …
Read MoreA short walk to the Inn Each morning during the summer season I leave the “little house”, between 6:00 and 6:30, I walk down the wooden walkway that leads to the car park and on to the Inn’s main house to begin my day of inn keeping. The “little house” is a cottage at the far …
Read MoreThis beautiful Kousa Dogwood tree is in our garden at our Cape Cod B&B. We thought that we were going to lose this beautiful tree two years ago. Half of the tree was dead. We called in our arborist, who told us that our only chance of saving the tree was to give it a …
Read MoreThe Palmer House’s front garden has been drawing quite a bit of interest this summer. Angelica is a native herb of continental Europe. The origin of its name is from at story about a monk, who when praying for a cure for the plague, was visited by St. Michael the Archangel, and was shown the …
Read MoreTwo years ago we transplanted two peony plants. I thought that we had lost them until I went walking behind the Thoreau Cottage garden this year and was delighted to find these lovely flowers. I guess that they just needed a little time to recover from the stress of being transplanted. I am …
Read MoreI have always enjoyed nasturtiums. My first memory of this pretty little flower was the summer that my little sister was born. There was an older lady in our neighborhood. She was a housekeeper and must have spent many hours alone. During the long hot summer afternoons she would walk to our house to visit …
Read MoreI am so proud of these beautiful lilies. Most of the trees flowers and shrubs that are in the gardens have been purchased at our local nurseries, however these lilies were an impulse buy at one of our local supermarkets. They were pretty last year but this year they are outshining themselves in …
Read MoreThe mountain laurel is one of my favorite flowers. Bill and I even named one of our daughters after these lovely pink blossoms. We do not have any mountains on the cape, but we do have a quiet shady corner of the Inn’s property where this beautiful bush thrives.
Read MoreCape Cod is known for its beautiful hydrangeas and the Palmer House gardens have several types. We have the classic white and blue pom poms, and the lace caps that are in bloom now. We also have conical hydrangeas that will bloom later in the season. They are so abundant this year that …
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