The museum store is expecting shipments of fresh new plants for your garden this week. Here’s the report from our buyer: 1) Reorders of strong sellers including mertensia, anemone, convallaria, heuchera, and iris. Have also ordered the first round of peonies in this order. 2) Delivery Thursday or Friday – Order included table tomato plant, [...]
Archive for April, 2010
New Plants at the Museum Store!
Posted in Plants on April 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A New Face in the Winterthur Garden
Posted in Garden, tagged environment, geology, intern, natural lands, university of delaware, wesley college on April 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My name is Mark Wolanski and I am from Wilmington, Delaware. Since March I have been serving as the six month Garden/Estate intern but will be transitioning to the Natural Lands intern in May. I have recently graduated from the University of Delaware with a Bachelor of Arts in Geography. By majoring in geography, students [...]
Azalea Woods – Will April 24th be the Peak?
Posted in Garden, tagged azalea peak, Winterthur Garden on April 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This morning, I asked the horticulturist in Azalea Woods to make her best guess about when the azaleas in Azalea Woods will peak. Be kind…it’s not an exact science! Our best guess is that it will be about one week before they are at peak – around April 24th-April 28th. And, if the weather stays this [...]
Daffodils in Drifts
Posted in Garden, tagged naturalized daffodils on April 15, 2010 | 3 Comments »
UPDATED This weekend’s program with Brent Heath will be a wonderful way to learn about heirloom daffodil bulbs. The lecture will take place in the Rotunda at the Museum on Saturday at 11 am. HF du Pont used the branches of trees to create the irregular outlines of his daffodil drifts here at Winterthur. He also [...]
Winterthur Garden – Two Weeks Ahead!
Posted in Garden on April 15, 2010 | 8 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 [...]
Wednesdays at Winterthur: Marian Coffin’s Sundial Garden
Posted in Garden on April 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Wednesday, April 21st, 11:30 a.m. Marian Coffin’s Sundial Garden Landscape architect Marian Coffin and H. F. du Pont were lifelong friends and collaborated in the creation of the Sundial Garden. Learn the history and design of this April garden at the peak of its season with assistant curator of the garden, Carol Long. Included with [...]
This Week in the Garden, April 9, 2010
Posted in Garden, Garden Tips, Tours, tagged cherries, Garden, garden tip, lilacs, magnolia, Magnolia Bend, petal fall, petals, Pinetum, Prunus 'Accolade', spring flowers on April 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Will someone stop hitting the fast forward button, please? Over the past seven days we have progressed about three weeks—flower time, that is. We have gone from smelling the spicy scent of star magnolias (Magnolia stellata) to the perfume fragrance of lilacs (Syringa vulgaris cvs). It makes my head spin even more to think [...]
Plant Sale Season
Posted in Plants, tagged plant sales on April 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
With nature hitting the fast forward button on our gardens, my thoughts have turned from enjoying our spring flowers to planting them. I like that the springtime ritual of shopping for new plants can be a bit of a treasure hunt, especially when you take advantage of local plant sales and garden events. As [...]
Tiny Spring Green Leaves
Posted in Garden, tagged Winterthur Garden on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Love the way the sun comes through the tiny green leaves of the tulip “poplar” trees this time of year. Hope you’ll come see spring unfold in the Winterthur Garden. Right now, the daffodils, cherries, magnolia and winterhazels are amazing. Virginia bluebells are just starting to bloom.
Nemours Lecture Tomorrow, April 8th!
Posted in Garden, Lectures, tagged Nemours, Winterthur Garden on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hope you will come to Winterthur tomorrow, April 8th, at noon for a lecture to go along with the “Lost Gardens of the Brandywine” exhibition. Grace Gary, the executive director of Nemours Mansion and Gardens will speak on “Unbuilt and Unexpected Nemours.” A discussion of the partnership between Alfred I. duPont and Thomas Hastings of [...]
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- Primroses and peonies for Mothers Day. 3 days ago
- Azaleas are moving along quickly and rhododendrons are looking beautiful. 2 weeks ago
- Azaleas and more azaleas! Rhododendrons coming into flower too. 3 weeks ago
- Bluebells and daffodils! 1 month ago
- Winter hazel, magnolias, Korean azalea, and anemone all coming into flower. 2 months ago
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 %
- Current data summary at 2012/5/16 May 16, 2012
