Let spring embrace you in the Winterthur Garden. The Sundial Garden is a beautiful bouquet featuring the bright colors of flowering quince, lavender lilacs and fragrant viburnum. Under the towering conifers in the Pinetum, flowering quince and native azaleas shine. Virginia bluebells cover the March Bank, their delicate flowers hang next to trillium and spring [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Spring’s Embrace
Posted in Garden, tagged azalea peak, dogwoods, Winterthur Garden on April 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Azaleas and Antique Automobiles!
Posted in Garden on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You won’t want to miss this – every Saturday during May from 10a to 4p, rare historic automobiles will be on display on the front lawn of the house, just down the hill from Azalea Woods near the conservatory. This Saturday, May 2nd, you’ll find 8-10 amazing Rolls-Royces and Bentleys from 1928-1952. I am looking [...]
Not to Be Missed
Posted in Garden, tagged daffodils, spring beauty on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The weekend is coming and the weather is supposed to be beautiful. We may even start to see azaleas coming into flower, if it is warm enough. There are a couple of things you shouldn’t miss though, before the warm temperatures raise the curtain on the next scene in the garden. Our islands of daffodils along the main [...]
Happy Arbor Day!
Posted in Garden, tagged Arbor Day, oak, tree, Winterthur Garden on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What better place to celebrate Arbor Day than the Winterthur Garden! While you enjoy the lovely spring ephemerals and flowering shrubs, celebrate the lasting importance of trees to our lives: beauty, shelter, fresh air, animal habitat and shade. Here’s a photo of one of my favorite trees on the estate, an oak tree in the meadow near [...]
Shade Gardening Tips – April 29
Posted in Garden, Plants, Tours, tagged Shade Gardening, Winterthur Garden on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Join the fun on Wednesday April 29th at 11:30 at the greenhouses where you will enjoy learning about gardening under trees. Gardening in the shade offers gardeners an environment full of opportunity. It was shade that inspired H. F. du Pont’s first gardening efforts when he began the creation of the March Bank in 1902. [...]
Stunning “Elizabeth” Magnolia
Posted in Garden, tagged magnolia, peony, Winterthur Garden on April 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Today in the Winterthur Garden, the Magnolia denudata “Elizabeth” is just opening with “her” pale yellow blossoms. In just a short walk to get a bit of fresh air, I encountered: – Museum guests enjoying Elizabeth’s first flowers – Near the museum store, Leigh Donnelly planting nearly 400 hellebores to complement the many boxwoods [...]
Dividing Snowdrops
Posted in Garden, Garden Tips, Plants, Techniques, tagged propagation, snowdrops on April 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Each spring I look forward to the flowering of the snowdrops (Galanthus spp.) and also to the task of dividing some of the larger clumps. There are a couple schools of thought of when the best time is to divide them, some say “in the green” just after flowering and others prefer to wait until [...]
Darlings of Spring: Daffodils on April 22
Posted in Garden, Plants, Tours on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Join Linda Eirhart on Wednesday April 22nd for a walk to see the many cheerful daffodils in the Winterthur Garden. Meet at the greenhouses at 11:30 a.m. and join the fun! From Linda’s research on Winterthur’s daffodils; instead of mixing daffodil cultivars, Mr. du Pont always used a single cultivar in a drift. In his [...]
Cherries and Magnolias Float Above the Winterthur Garden
Posted in Garden, tagged cherry, quince, Sundial Garden, trillium, trout lilly, Winterthur on April 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today, color and fragrance weave their magic throughout the Winterthur Garden. Golden daffodils blanket the hills and line the streams. The Sundial Garden peaks with billowing clouds of pink and white accented by the purple of emerging lilacs and redbuds. Explore the March Bank to discover the delicate flowers of thousands of small bulbs and [...]
White Arrow Tour
Posted in Garden, tagged white arrow on April 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The white arrows make their spring return, winding their way through the garden to highlight the seasonal displays. The route begins at the Visitors Center and ends at the Dorrance Gallery with the route in between changing weekly. This tour is inspired by the white arrows used by H. F. Dupont during spring tour to [...]
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- In addition to winter jasmine and snowdrops; adonis amurensis, winter aconite, and leucojum are all coming into bloom. 2 weeks ago
- Winter jasmine, snowdrops, and witch hazels in flower - winter aconite just starting to peek out of the ground. 3 weeks ago
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Winterthur Weather Data- Current data summary at 2012/2/11 February 10, 2012Time of Observations: 2012/02/11 00:00:00 EST Gage Precipitation (60): 0 in Air Temperature: 32.2 deg. F Dew Point Temperature: 32.1 deg. F Wind Speed: 0.6 mph Wind Direction: 330.4 deg. (NNW) Barometric Pressure: 29.94 inHg Solar Radiation: 0 W.m-2 Wind Gust Speed (5): 1.3 mph at 4:55 Gage Precipitation (5): 0 in Relative humidity: 100 % Wind Chill: 32.2 de […]
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