Thanks our visiting our website, someday I hope you will visit us at the farm. 

We are located in the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains of southwest Virginia. Please check out the events page to help plan your  visit.

We are open to the public Thursday - Sunday from 10-5 and to tour groups by appointment.  If your group would like to schedule a visit please go to our contact us link to the left.

If  you are not familiar with our company and your first contact with us is online: We would be pleased to hear from you! Please let us know what your needs and questions are, we will be more than happy to help.

Our farm building houses our herbal products including soap, lotions and a variety of dried flowers, potpourri and of course  Lavender.                                There are 14 theme gardens and our herb collections: Lavender, Thyme, Oregano and Salvias.

So plan to visit on opening day, sign up for one of our workshops or be sure to join us for one of our special events.

Our spring Open house "Spring Thyme in the garden" will be Saturday May 17. Check the events link to the left for particulars and be sure to mark your calendar for June 21, 2008 for this years Lavender Thyme event!!!  Come prepared to cut your own Lavender.

Our Garlic Thyme event on Oct. 6th was a huge success,thanks so much. Thanks to all of you who have visited this season and hope to see you this summer.

The weather this fall was fabulous,  the color on the trees was picture perfect in spite of the dryest year on record. We have been in a near drought condition and hopefully the snow this winter will get us back to normal.

Last fall we planted Lavender on the slope outside the gardens with some help from good friends. We will be planting several hundred more plants this spring. This will provide a wonderful backdrop when they bloom in the next few years.                         They are outside the electric fence and the deer have pretty much left them alone.                                           

If nothing else gardening teaches patience!!!

We are presently scheduling group tours for lunch for 2008 and are also scheduling groups tours and weddings for 2008/2009. Ask for a list of programs available and lunch options-yes be sure to come enjoy an herbal lunch in the gardens.

Nestled in a valley of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Beagle Ridge Herb Farm awaits you. Nature is the watchword at Beagle Ridge. Prior to becoming our dream come true our 160 acre property was part of a 2,000 acre hunting preserve. It's pristine beauty is what nurtures us daily and we would like to share it's bounty with you.

Our farm building was the site of the pen raised quail and partridge and the mountains around us are filled with wildlife. We share the farm with deer, turkey, grouse,rabbits, numerous bird species and even black bear. Gardening in this situation is a challenge: however we have encroached upon them so we need to work with them.

This is our tea gardens, more pictures are on the picture link for your perusal. Everything in these beds can be used for a tea. Come sip teas and watch the hummingbirds, or birds, and enjoy the quiet.

The remainder of the gardens include a formal walled herbal display garden, a Lavender walk ( check our photo page), Thyme, Oregano and Lavender collections, a pergola which shades our medicinal herbs, a water garden, a Cottage garden,a Wildlife habitat garden, shrub borders with rogusa roses for long season bloom, a Japanese Meditation garden,a Tea Garden and a Gravel/ Mediterranean garden( yes everything is planted in a substance we call "Dirty Rock").The picture below shows the Thyme walk which is in bloom and looks like a persian carpet. All the plants are xeric, which means they can survive with little or no additional watering ( of course that means after being established).

The woodland garden is filling in and is beginning to look like it has been there for several years. The Viburnums were covered with blooms but were badly frozen with that late freeze, we actually lost one of them and the "hedge" now has a hole in it. Oh well, Mother nature always seems to remind us who is in control. We should have a hedge of berries for the birds this winter but I afraid they will have to do without.

The dry-bed through the woodland helps eliminate a water problem which occurs when we have thunderstorms. This has been a rarity this spring since we are in a drought stage! Along this temporary watercourse we have many primroses, ferns, and other spring blooming wildflowers. The pines were in place and since shade is at a premium in the garden we decided to provide a shady habitat which was lacking in the garden.

We built a raised bed planter with wheelchair accessibility- I call this my Garden for all Ages. After planting it, I have found out how much more enjoyable it was to plant, care for and harvest from it.

The Bee balm is magnificent in the summer and as the summer progresses the tomotoes in the center section of the planter take center stage. This simple planter box is just the right height for wheelchairs and at less than 3' wide is accessible on all sides. Come see what we plant this year.

Last year we decided to add a teepee in with the tomatoes  ( usually in the Children's Garden) and add the scarlet runners there. I just felt the hummingbirds would be unhappy if we didn't plant them somewhere in the garden. The two legs of the raised planter contain herbs on one side and cutting perennials in the other.

Come see what changes we make over the winter. 

They say if you will build it they will come, Well if you plant it they will come too.

The Habitat Garden is transformed into a myriad of color and activity. We enjoy a chorus of bird song in the morning and bullfrogs at night. We have resident birds, bunnies and too many species of butterflies to mention.                         In addition the frogs, fence lizards and toads were doing their job on the insect population.

The Thymes bloomed for almost 2 months last summer and our guests marvel at the variety. The Wooly Thyme covered itself in fabulous pink blooms, it becomes a fuzzy mass on which the dew sparkles in the morning. The Thymes look like a persian carpet during bloom time and are a favorite in the garden.

We normally harvest Lady Lavender,Provence and Grosso Lavender in June. We dry it in the building and the fragrance is so overpowering and we actually open the doors when we get there to air it out ( What a complaint- too much Lavender). We have many varities of lavender so we have about 6-8 weeks of bloom time, since they overlap in bloom sequence.
Last fall we did plant about 80 Lavender plants on the hills around the farm, outside the fence. I am planning on planting several hundred this spring.I am anxious to see them bloom this year! I am hopeful but usually it takes two years for a good crop. Be sure to plan a trip in June to see how it turned out.

This is one plant of Grosso, as you can see there is a lot of Lavender which can be harvested from one plant. at maturity, in full bloom this is 6' wide. If this is too large for your space, you can choose from many varieties which are quite a bit smaller. The newly planted Knot garden is in the background of this picture. It is planted with Germander, Lady Lavender ( obviously a small variety) and Grey Santolina. We planted it in the summer of 2007 and I am hopeful it will be ready to trim this summer.

The slate wall surrounding the Formal garden, was an anniversary present from my husband. This creates a microclimate around the herbs, protecting them from the biting winter winds. All our hardscape( fences, walls, rock paths, etc.)helps absorb the heat of the sun and then release it at night and as such we are able to grow plants which normally could not survive in this zone. The Spanish Lavender, in the picture, is a great example of that- normally hardy to zone 8, it has thrived in our zone 6 climate due to the optimal drainage and lots of reflective heat from the stone and the slate wall. We get some winter kill, but once we do a bit of pruning it comes into bloom in April and will bloom on an off most of the summer.
The hardscape also lends a scupltural addition to the gardens. When the plants are dormant,the bones of the garden are visible and that is a great time to do planning for the next year.

The playhouse in the children's garden inspires future gardeners- how better to introduce a child to the joys of "digging in the dirt"? Children of all ages seem to gravitate to the Children's garden. This past summer we let it rest and we are revamping it this winter, including a new patio, a new chimney and lots of new plantings. Come touch a Lambs Ear, a Goose neck , and even Pig Squeak. Yes these are all plants...

The gardens are ever changing, ever evolving and this winter we have been making changes to the Children's Garden and adding a wetland area- perfect for frogs and moisture loving plants. Be sure to check out our progresss either by visiting or here on the website.