Category: Wedding Inspiration

3 Ideas for Incorporating Both Personalities into Your Wedding

Bride and groom embracing in formal gardens

When a couple gets married, most people assume the bulk of the planning falls to the bride. Although it may pan out this way for many couples, it’s important to remember that your wedding is a day for both partners to be celebrated together. Your ceremony and reception should reflect elements of your personalities woven… Read more »

2021 Color of the Year & Trends

Wedding Guest Tables Decorated with Blue Accents

The 2021 Pantone colors of the year are Illuminating, which is a bright yellow and Ultimate Gray. These colors convey strength and hopefulness, which we all need a little bit of right now. Are you unsure of what color you want on your special day? Here are a few trending colors we’ve seen so much of… Read more »

Butterflies at Drumore Estate

Spicebush Swallowtail on Butterfly Weed

After many years of attracting various butterfly species to Drumore, a garden specifically meant to attract and promote populations of butterflies and pollinators was planted in the spring of 2019.  Many native flowering plants were included as well as others known to be favorites of butterflies and pollinators.  The plants and flowers used seem to… Read more »

Fantastic Foliage at Drumore Estate

Varied succulents

When most people think of a beautiful garden they envision displays of colorful flowers.  Flowers in a wide range of hues offer lovely garden views, but some blooms are seasonal or last only a short time during the full garden season.  Many perennials and most flowering shrubs bloom for only a few weeks, and annuals… Read more »

Butterfly and Pollinator Certified Gardens at Drumore Estate

Drumore's pollinator garden for Butterflies

Last year Drumore Estate was certified as both a Certified Butterfly Garden from the North American Butterfly Association and a Pollinator Friendly Garden from Penn State Extension Master Gardeners.  We are proud and excited to be helpful in thoughtfully growing plants and using cultural practices which are beneficial to these essential categories of insects. Most… Read more »