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Lunch and supper at the Farmhouse
Cooked from our kitchen garden and Hill Country farms, served at long tables or small ones.
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Senior living · Blanco, Texas
Eleven rows of lavender and a porch with your name on it.
Cottages, apartments and assisted living on an old Hill Country lavender farm, where residents still bring in the harvest every June.
- 60acres on the Blanco River
- 11rows of lavender, harvested by hand
- 104residents in cottages, apartments and suites
Welcome to the Hill
A working farm that happens to be senior living.
The Ellison family planted the first rows of lavender here in 1998, when Blanco was just finding out it had the right limestone soil and the right dry summers for it. Ten years later, Margaret Ellison's mother needed somewhere to live that felt like home, and nothing in the county did. So the family built it on the farm.
Today one hundred and four people live at Lavender Hill. They keep their own cottages and apartments, eat what comes out of our kitchen garden, sell lavender sachets at the Saturday market on the square and, when they need more help, move down the path to assisted living in the Sage House. The rows still get cut by hand every June, and every year the residents beat the staff.
— Margaret Ellison, owner and executive director
What sets us apart
Where we shine
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The lavender harvest and drying barn
Residents cut, bundle and hang the crop every June, then make sachets all winter.
Included
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Help with bathing, dressing and grooming
At each resident's pace, by the same small team.
By level- 60acres on the Blanco River
- 11rows of lavender, harvested by hand
- 104residents in cottages, apartments and suites
- 2009the year the Farmhouse opened
Rooms & suites
Six ways to live on the farm
Every residence has a covered porch or patio, a walk-in shower, emergency call buttons and a window that looks out on something growing.
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The Rosemary cottage
Two bedrooms, two baths and a wide front porch that faces the lavender rows.
- Front porch
- Full kitchen
- Attached carport
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The Thyme cottage
One bedroom with a den and a stone fireplace, near the kitchen garden.
- Fireplace
- Den
- Garden patio
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Farmhouse one-bedroom
A second-floor apartment above the dining room, with an elevator and a balcony over the courtyard.
- Balcony
- Full kitchen
- Elevator access
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Farmhouse studio
One bright room with a kitchenette and a window seat over the herb beds.
- Kitchenette
- Window seat
- Walk-in shower
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Sage House suite
Assisted living with a private bedroom and sitting room, steps from the nurses and the porch.
- Private bath
- Call system
- Shared porch
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Respite suite
Furnished and ready for stays of a week to a few months, with meals and care included.
- Fully furnished
- Daily rate
- Assisted living care
Photo tour
A year on the Hill
Sample family reviews
Notes from the porch
Mom farmed peaches outside Stonewall for forty years. The first week here, Bernard handed her pruning shears. She cried, then she got to work.
We sold the ranch and the tractor and kept the dog. The dog has a run. I have a raised bed and a porch. Nobody here asks me to fix a fence.
Daniel spent an hour at our kitchen table before Dad moved into the Sage House. He asked how Dad takes his coffee and which ballgame he listens to. Both were right the first night.
I've lived in Blanco all my life and swore I'd never leave town. I didn't have to. I can see the courthouse dome from the van on Saturdays.
The harvest weekend is the best thing I have seen in senior living, and I am a geriatric nurse. My father bundled lavender for six hours and slept like a baby.
I live in Denver. Rosa walked me through Mom's cottage on a video call and then down the lavender rows. I could almost smell it.
After my knee replacement I spent five weeks in the respite suite and did therapy with Omar. I went home walking, and I came back for good in the fall.
Leticia called at three in the morning to say Mom had a fever, that the doctor had been reached and that she would call back at six. She called at six.
The market stall is the busiest thing in my week. I sell sachets to tourists from Houston and tell every one of them about my grandchildren.
Claire sat with us twice to sort out Dad's VA Aid and Attendance application. It went through in the spring and made all the difference.
The food is better than anything in the county. Ramón's peach cobbler should be on the town sign.
Keep your hands in the dirt and your name on the door. We will cook, clean, drive and care, and save you a seat on the porch.
Our team
The people who keep the farm running
Margaret Ellison
Owner & Executive Director
Daniel Kowalski, RN
Director of Nursing
Henry Takahashi, MD
Medical Director
Ramón Villanueva
Chef & Kitchen Gardener
Admissions
Moving to the farm, one step at a time
Rosa Delacruz guides every family from the first call to the first month.
- A floor plan sketch with your own furniture drawn in
- A list of trusted movers and downsizing help in Blanco County
- Pictures hung and the bed made before you arrive
- A bundle of lavender on the pillow and a supper invitation from a neighbor
- A call to the family after the first week and the first month
Ratings & recognition · sample
- Hill Country Readers’ Choice · Best Senior Living
- Blanco Chamber · Business of the Year
- Regional Hospital System · Preferred Discharge Partner
- Texas Garden Clubs · Community Garden Award
- State Assisted Living License · Current
- Family Satisfaction Survey · 96% would recommend
- Blanco Library Friends · Volunteer Partner
- Senior Living Design Review · Notable Campus
- Hill Country Farm Bureau · Agricultural Partner
Now hiring
Lunch from the garden, every shift.
Visit
Two miles south of the square
- 1150 Lavender Hill Road
Blanco, TX
Park in the gravel lot by the barn, under the live oaks. A golf cart runs guests up to the Farmhouse all day. - (830) 555-0186
- Text us
- hello@lavenderhill.example
- LavenderHillBlanco
Tour & office hours
- Tours, Mon – Sat9a – 5p
- Sunday tours12p – 4p
- Admissions office, Mon – Fri8a – 5p
- Families visitAny time
Sunday tours end with lunch at the long table in the Farmhouse kitchen. In June, bring a hat; we may hand you shears.
Come for lunch. Stay for the harvest.
Tours run seven days a week. Call, text or book online and Margaret or Rosa will meet you at the Farmhouse porch.