Take a look at the beautiful new garden program brochure. Stop by the visitor center to pick up a full-color copy. Garden Mailer 2010 online In addition, the companion lectures to Maggie Lidz’ “Lost Gardens of the Brandywine” exhibition and information about the historic automobile displays are found here: http://www.winterthur.org/calendar/adult_programs.asp?sub=exhibition Enjoy spring in the Winterthur Garden!
Archive for March, 2010
New Garden Program Brochure
Posted in Garden, tagged Witnerthur Garden Programs 2010 on March 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When, oh when, will the March Bank be Blue?
Posted in Garden, tagged blue, March Bank, Winterthur on March 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I just saw Carol Long in the garden and asked for a prediction of when the March Bank will be fully blue. With the next few days of warm temperatures, it will begin its transformation from yellow and white to blue. She guesses it will be at the peak of blue in about one week, around the [...]
Windy Winterthur Weather
Posted in Garden, tagged weather on March 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
On Saturday, March 13, we had a wonderful turnout for our garden lecture by Rick Darke. We also had a power outage, high winds, tree damage, and driving rain! Thanks to our newly installed generator in the Visitor Center, the lecture proceeded without a hitch and we all were able to enjoy Rick’s fantastic photos. [...]
This Week in the Garden, March 7-13, 2010
Posted in Garden, Garden Tips, Plants, tagged bulbs, crocus, evergreens, hellebores, japanese umbrella pine, March Bank, raking, snow, snowdrops, spring cleanup, spring snowflake, winter aconite, winter damage on March 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Walking in the garden this week you would not know that we were snow covered for a full 4 weeks prior. Snowdrops, winter aconite, adonis, crocus and spring snowflake are in flower in the Glade Garden, March Bank, Azalea Woods, Quarry Garden, Icewell and East Terrace. Amongst some of the last remnants of snow, hellebores [...]
Adonis Amurensis Blooming on the March Bank
Posted in Garden, tagged adonis, March, Winterthur Garden on March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Maggie Lidz, estate historian, shares a photograph along with excerpts from du Pont family correspondence about the Winterthur Garden. March is one of the most exciting gardening months in Delaware. Spring can emerge slowly or with amazing speed. See these descriptions of March over Henry Francis du Pont’s lifetime During his long lifetime (1880-1969) du [...]
Get Out and Enjoy the Garden (Before the Rain)
Posted in Garden, Lectures, tagged crocus, wild garden, Winterthur Garden on March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It seems counterintuitive, but with rain in the forecast, now is a great time to get out and see the garden. Warm temperatures and rain have a way of completely transforming a garden. Unfortunately, the crocus pictured above on the East Terrace will get battered but the daffodils, squill, and scilla that are just starting to push [...]
Winterthur’s Ivy Rabbit
Posted in Garden, tagged rabbit, Winterthur estate on March 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just in time for the new Alice in Wonderland movie, Jeannette Lindvig spotted an ivy “rabbit” above the train trestle on the Winterthur estate. Do you see it in the tree, reading a book?
Tommies, Aconite and Witchhazel
Posted in Garden, tagged aconite, adonis, crocus, spring, Winterthur Garden on March 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
With the warm temperatures, the Winterthur Garden popped today – come and see! Pick up a spring bloom sheet at the visitor center desk or at the galleries reception area and head out into paradise! * sparkling white snowdrops and snowflakes * golden adonis and butter-yellow aconite * delicate lavender “tommy” crocus Spring is (almost) here!
The Lavender Tommies are in Bloom!
Posted in Garden on March 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Rosemary Krill shares her observations of Friday, March 5th: The Winterthur Garden, like many of the Winterthur staff, is ready to welcome visitors back after our winter break, based on what I saw today. I started out to take a peek at the March Bank. I didn’t even make it to the Bank before I [...]
The Greenhouses at Winterthur
Posted in Garden, tagged Garden History, greenhouse, Winterthur Garden on March 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
From Maggie Lidz, Winterthur’s estate historian: The Winterthur estate has had conservatory displays since Evelina du Pont and her husband Antoine Bidermann moved into their newly built house in 1841. In fact, December 13, 1838 Evelina wrote to her sister Victorine du Pont, who lived at Eleutherian Mills (now part of the Hagley Museum and [...]
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Winterthur Weather Data- Current data summary at 2012/5/16 May 16, 2012Time of Observations: 2012/05/16 09:20:00 EDT Gage Precipitation (60): 0 in Air Temperature: 68.9 deg. F Dew Point Temperature: 67.1 deg. F Wind Speed: 2 mph Wind Direction: 227.3 deg. (SW) Barometric Pressure: 29.97 inHg Solar Radiation: 337 W.m-2 Wind Gust Speed (5): 3.3 mph at 9:18 Gage Precipitation (5): 0 in Relative humidity: 94 %
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