New and improved eggs have made their way to the Bird’s Nest feature in Enchanted Woods. These eggs have been turned by the skillful hands of our volunteer Roy Tedesco from the wood of Paulownia tomentosa or princess tree, an appropriately named tree for a make-believe faerie garden. This tree species is found in the nearby [...]
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Look What the Easter Bunny Dropped Off!
Posted in Enchanted Woods, Garden, Plants, Techniques, tagged arborist, bird's nest, children's garden, eggs, Enchanted Woods, Paulownia tomentosa, princess tree, trees, volunteers, Winterthur Garden on April 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Happy New Year and Welcome to Spring!
Posted in Garden, tagged children's garden, March Bank, members, members' walk, nature, snowdrops, walking, weather, winter, Winterthur Garden on January 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Ok—well, we really are still in winter but for the most part you would not know. With multiple days in the 40’s and 50’s there is lot of activity in the horticultural world. Early flowering shrubs such as fragrant honeysuckle (Lonicera fragrantissima), witchhazel (Hamamelis vernalis) and winter jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum) are in blossom and the [...]
Chestnut- a stale joke
Posted in Garden, Plants, tagged chestnut, children's garden, edible, fall, nature, tree, Winterthur, Winterthur estate, Winterthur Garden on November 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Horticulturist Jim Pirhalla writes about one of our lesser known trees: One of the definitions of chestnut I have found is “a stale joke”. Another is “something, as a story, lacking freshness or originality”. Perhaps I should put down the dictionary before it’s too late. The chestnut that I would like to refer to in this [...]
Hawks at Winterthur
Posted in Garden, tagged birds, children's garden, cooper's hawk, crows, environment, nature, nesting sites, Pinetum, wildlife, Winterthur, Winterthur Garden on July 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Jim Pirhalla, horticulturist for the Sundial Garden and the Pinetum writes: This year is the first year, at least that I am aware of, that a pair of hawks has nested in Winterthur’s Pinetum during the decade or so that it has been under my care; the particular breed of hawk being the Cooper’s hawk. The [...]
A Call for Volunteers
Posted in Garden, tagged children's garden, farmstand, volunteering on June 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There are two new volunteer opportunities for those interested in helping with the Children’s Vegetable Garden and the Farmstand. Children’s Vegetable Garden We will be scheduling some evening work sessions in the Children’s Vegetable Garden to help the kids keep up with weeding and watering and to keep the area looking beautiful. Evening sessions will be [...]
What’s Flowering in the Kids’ Garden
Posted in Garden, tagged children's garden, vegetables on September 1, 2010 | Leave a 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 [...]
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 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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Winterthur Weather Data- Current data summary at 2013/5/18 May 18, 2013Time of Observations: 2013/05/18 19:35:00 EDT Gage Precipitation (60): 0 in Air Temperature: 60.3 deg. F Dew Point Temperature: 54.8 deg. F Wind Speed: 7.3 mph Wind Direction: 117.3 deg. (ESE) Barometric Pressure: 30.29 inHg Solar Radiation: 6 W.m-2 Wind Gust Speed (5): 9.6 mph Gage Precipitation (5): 0 in Relative humidity: 82 % Soil Temperature: 63 deg. F […]
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