Question to Susan S., the horticulturist of Azalea Woods: When will the azaleas peak? Our best guess: May 3-12 Susan elaborates: The Kurume azaleas are showing quite a bit of color. I think most will start to open as this week progresses, with a lot of color by this weekend. The azaleas on the back [...]
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Azaleas About to Burst Into Bloom!
Posted in Garden, Plants, tagged Azalea Woods, Kurume Azalea, Winterthur Garden on April 29, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Tom’s Plant Pick of the Week
Posted in Plants, tagged Euphorbia, Winterthur Garden on April 18, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Winterthur Garden Guide Tom Maddux, known to some as the garden guru of New Castle, took a look at the plants offered in the Winterthur plant shop this afternoon. His pick? Spurge (Euphorbia.) Tom chose it for these reasons: Beautiful light green color makes it a standout. Evergreen foliage. Mixes well with spring bulbs.
Plant Pick of the Week – Dawn Redwood
Posted in Garden, Plants, tagged Dawn Redwood, Winterthur Garden on April 11, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
During yesterday’s heat wave, I took a stroll to the museum store to see what Loes had in store. Inside scoop: plant deliveries usually arrive on Thursday mornings, so Thursdays and Fridays are the best days to see the newest stock. This week, the staff pick of the week is the Dawn Redwood. Why? They [...]
Spring’s Shooting Stars
Posted in Garden, Garden Tips, Plants, tagged April flowers, bulbs, bulbs in lawn, Ipheion, Pinetum, spring flowers, star flower on April 10, 2013 | 2 Comments »
Jim Pirhalla, Horticulturist in the Pinetum writes: No, this isn’t a blog about gun violence. It’s actually about a charming little flowering bulb. Charming, at least in this region, for in the South, it may be considered a lawn pest to some. The plant that I’m referring to is Ipheion uniflorum, the spring starflower, also [...]
Plant Pick of the Week – Hellebores!
Posted in Plants, Products, tagged Hellebore, museum store, Plant Pick of the week, Winterthur Garden on April 4, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
One of Winterthur’s wonderful garden guides, Mary Patterson, took on the difficult task of choosing her favorite plant at the Museum Store plant shop. With all the amazing, healthy plants to choose from, I’m sure it was difficult. Mary decided on the hellebore as her plant pick of the week writing, “A bright spot in [...]
Sweet Peas and Canary Creepers
Posted in Garden Tips, Plants, tagged Canary Creeper, Sweet Pea, Winterthur Garden on April 3, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Inquiring minds at today’s Wednesday at Winterthur wondered about plants growing on standards in the Brown Horticulture Learning Center. I asked Chris Strand, who is working on the KidsGrow Children’s Garden. He replied, “there are sweet peas (Lathyrus odoratus) and canary creeper (Tropaeolum) climbing up the standards.” If you’d like to try these at home, [...]
Impact
Posted in Garden, Garden Tips, Plants, tagged frost, grass, turf, Winterthur Garden on April 3, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Winterthur horticulturist, Frank Quinnette, writes: Yes folks, spring has sprung. But someone needs to tell the guy who regulates the temperature around here, ‘cause it still feels like winter to me. Keep in mind that it is not unusual at all to see snow or frost here ‘till near the end of April. That leads [...]
Bloom List for 3.26.2013 and Volunteering at Winterthur
Posted in Garden, Garden Programs, Plants, tagged Delaware Garden, March Bank blue, volunteering, Winterthur Garden on March 28, 2013 | 2 Comments »
Want to know exactly what’s in bloom in the Winterthur Garden? Take a look at this list compiled by two of our amazing volunteers. http://www.winterthur.org/pdfs/03.26.2013 Winterthur Bloom list 11.pdf If you’d like to know more about volunteering at Winterthur, make plans to come to one of Chris Strand’s volunteer events. The first one is [...]
From White to Blue
Posted in Garden, Plants, tagged chionodoxa, Garden, gardening, glory-of-the-snow, March Bank, March Bank blue, spring, spring bulbs, winter flowering plants, Winterthur Garden on March 27, 2013 | 6 Comments »
March: in like a lion, out like a lamb? I think not! Monday’s snow threw us all for a loop; we had already been thinking spring but in the Winterthur Garden that is not a hard thing to do. Winter still occurs for 3 months here but the amount of winter flowering bulbs [...]
The Gift that Keeps on Giving
Posted in Garden, Garden Programs, Plants, tagged arborist, Azalea Woods, gardening, Gift in Tribute Program, nature, trees, tulip poplar, Winterthur Garden on March 26, 2013 | 1 Comment »
A crane made its way into the heart of Azalea Woods this winter to remove a tulip poplar tree whose structure was compromised after Sandy came through. Winterthur fared well in that storm by the way, but there were a few arboreal casualties. Tulip poplars are not rare in Azalea Woods or on the property [...]
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Winterthur Weather Data- Current data summary at 2013/5/21 May 21, 2013Time of Observations: 2013/05/21 07:40:00 EDT Gage Precipitation (60): 0 in Air Temperature: 66.6 deg. F Dew Point Temperature: 66.1 deg. F Wind Speed: 3.4 mph Wind Direction: 247.3 deg. (WSW) Barometric Pressure: 30.04 inHg Solar Radiation: 123 W.m-2 Wind Gust Speed (5): 6.1 mph Gage Precipitation (5): 0 in Relative humidity: 98 % Soil Temperature: 64.6 deg […]
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