by Frank Quinnette On my way to work this morning I heard a radio commercial for grub control. It’s a tongue-in-cheek spot from a major lawn care product supplier that is pretty funny really. Kind of 1950’s, flying-saucer-ominous-voice-in-panic type deal. Ugly monsters in the lawn devouring grass roots! Run for your lives! Something like that. [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Don’t Panic… You’ve Got Grubs
Posted in Garden Tips, tagged environment, grass, grubs, nature, turf, Winterthur Garden on June 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
July 1: Compost for a Healthy Planet
Posted in Garden, tagged compost, environment, garden programs, gardening, nature, Winterthur Garden on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wednesdays at Winterthur: July 1st 11:30 am at the greenhouses. All organic matter will decompose within time! Through active composting, you can turn organic matter from your backyard and household residues into a rich soil amendment to help improve plant growth, give roots a healthier environment in which to expand and stabilize, reduce potential soil erosion [...]
June 24 Focus on Trees: Oaks and Beeches
Posted in Garden, tagged environment, garden programs, nature, trees, Winterthur Garden on June 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Wednesdays at Winterthur: June 24 11:30 am at the greenhouses. Join garden guide specialist Ed Stevenson for a walk through the garden, looking in detail at those majestic woodland trees, the oaks and beeches. Their identification, characteristics, growth conditions, and how they may be used in a home garden will be explored.
Who grows up to become a gardener?
Posted in Garden, tagged environment, family, gardener, life, lifestyle, nature, Winterthur Garden on June 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jeannette Lindvig, a guide in the house and the garden, shares a beautiful essay and photo of the Winterthur Garden: The other day I watched a young family walking through the garden at Winterthur. The parents were patient and attentive to their three children, two of whom walked easily with their parents. The one who [...]
Gardening with Children
Posted in Garden, tagged children, children's garden, environment, gardening, kids, life, lifestyle, nature, vegetables, Winterthur Garden on June 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This last Saturday, Winterthur garden interns and staff helped 21 children plant their vegetable gardens for our annual “Kids Grow” children’s gardening program. Over the next 10 weeks children and their parents will watch their seeds grow, pull weeds, thin, pinch, water and weed their way to a nice harvest of salad vegetables. By the [...]
A Gardener’s Frustration
Posted in Garden, tagged gardening, life, weather, Winterthur Garden on June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A gardener’s frustration with the weather is timeless and universal. The following excerpts, gathered together by our Estate Historian Maggie Lidz, are quotes by the du Ponts as they struggled with the Winterthur garden during the month of June, which was sometimes too wet, sometimes too dry and only very occasionally just right. June 5, 1942 [...]
Love your Lep’s: Native Plants for a Butterfly Garden Review
Posted in Garden, tagged butterflies, environment, insects, native plants, nature, wildflowers, Winterthur Garden on June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Meghan Gallagher, a Winterthur horticulturist, led the Wednesdays at Winterthur walk on June 10th. She follows up with more great information about butterflies. We had a gorgeous day and the company was great! Many important questions surfaced throughout the walk, including the significance of butterflies in the garden. Besides their beautiful colors, lepidopteran’s are nature’s [...]
Looking Out
Posted in Garden, tagged architecture, interiors, landscape, lifestyle, views, Winterthur Garden on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jeff Groff shares his observations: Walking through the Winterthur Garden I am always struck by how many different types of views there are—woodlands, open meadows, masses of bloom and color, tunnels of light, and an endless variety of shades of green. The buildings, walls, garden ornaments and placement of steps and landings frame and accent [...]
June 17: Just the Birds, Not the Bees
Posted in Garden, tagged birds, environment, garden programs, nature, Winterthur Garden on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wednesdays at Winterthur: June 17 11:30 am at the greenhouses. Winterthur provides many suitable nesting environments for the birds that spend their breeding season in this region. Learn which birds call Winterthur “home” and where you may expect to find them nesting. Horticulturist Jim Pirhalla leads this walk through the Winterthur Garden.
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Winterthur Weather Data- Current data summary at 2012/2/4 February 3, 2012Time of Observations: 2012/02/04 04:40:00 EST Gage Precipitation (60): 0 in Air Temperature: 34.4 deg. F Dew Point Temperature: 25.4 deg. F Wind Speed: 2.3 mph Wind Direction: 274.4 deg. (W) Barometric Pressure: 30.33 inHg Solar Radiation: 0 W.m-2 Wind Gust Speed (5): 2.7 mph at 9:37 Gage Precipitation (5): 0 in Relative humidity: 69 % Wind Chill: 34.4 deg. […]
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