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 [...]
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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 »
What’s Flowering in the Children’s Garden
Posted in Garden, Plants, Products, tagged children, children's garden, environment, gardening, kids, life, lifestyle, nature, vegetables, Winterthur Garden on September 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Several visitors and staff members have asked for the names and sources of some of the plants growing in the children’s vegetable garden. I have copied the inventory below along with a very informal rating and source code. The rating scale is from “-” (no germination/poor performer) to “++” (star performer). If there is neither a plus [...]
Color in the Late Summer Garden
Posted in Garden, Plants, tagged Japanese anemone, summer, Winterthur Garden on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For a bit of color be sure to visit the Quarry Garden. Above the quarry you will find Japanese anemones in soft and vibrant pinks mixed with the chartreuse flowers and foliage of Heuchera villosa. They make good companions because they both do well in partial shade. The anemones can take full sun if given [...]
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. On [...]
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 the [...]
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 words, [...]
An Easter Egg Imitation in Nature
Posted in Garden, Plants, tagged beauty, magnolia, Winterthur Garden on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Guest author, Beth Selsor shares an early morning experience in the Winterthur Garden.
On Monday morning, I arrived at work very early so I could get out into the garden to see my favorite tree, a magnolia called Wada’s Memory. It is my favorite tree in the garden and it only blooms early in April. If [...]
After the Storm
Posted in Garden, Plants, Tours, tagged beech, sculpture, Winterhazel, Winterthur Garden on April 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A huge rainstorm blew through Winterthur around noon today. By 2:00, I ventured out into spring. Is the March Bank still blue? Are the trees ok? What’s in bloom?
Today the air was fresh, the sky full of fluffy white clouds. The sun even broke through a few times warming my shoulders. No matter what day you come [...]
“Bank is a whole sheet of bloom”
Posted in Garden, Plants, tagged chionodoxa, March Bank, scilla on April 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Those words were written by H.F. du Pont in 1916. That blue sheet of the March Bank is predominately Glory-of-the-snow or Chionodoxa forbesii (above), formerly known as Chionodoxa luciliae. Its blossoms are upward facing and star-shaped. The petals are joined at the base, unlike those of the squill. The Siberian squill, Scilla siberica (below), has [...]
Planting the Perfect Spring Container – April 8th
Posted in Garden, Garden Tips, Lectures, Plants, Techniques on April 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just in time for spring! Join Michelle Christiano and Leigh Donnelly at the greenhouses at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday April 8th for a demonstration on spring containers. You’ll find out the right tools to create your own masterpieces.
Michelle and Leigh’s steps to planting a great Spring container:
1. Mix potting soil with water to moisten thoroughly
2. [...]
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- Saw my first scilla in flower and fragrant honeysuckle and sweetshrub are in flower (easier to smell than they are to see). 3 days ago
- Tommies are at their peak on the East Terrace. Snowdrops, snowflakes, winter aconite, and adonis are popping up everywhere. 6 days ago
- Tommies, snowdrops, winter aconite, and Amur adonis in flower on the East Terrace and along the thawed areas of the March Bank. 1 week ago
- Snow, snow, snow. I am sure that snowdrops are under there somewhere. 2 weeks ago
- Snowdrops are out along the March Bank. A beautiful snowdrop is in full flower on the East Terrace by the Loggia. 1 month ago
Winterthur Weather Data- Current data summary at 2010/3/15 March 15, 2010Time of Observations: 2010/03/15 10:20:00 EDT Gage Precipitation (60): 0 in Air Temperature: 43.1 deg. F Dew Point Temperature: 41.3 deg. F Wind Speed: 4.3 mph Wind Direction: 350 deg. (N) Barometric Pressure: 29.62 inHg Solar Radiation: 226 W.m-2 Wind Gust Speed (5): 7.8 mph at 10:18 Gage Precipitation (5): 0 in Relative humidity: 93 % Snow Depth: 1.7 in […]
- Current data summary at 2010/3/15 March 15, 2010
