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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘chionodoxa’
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 Bank Blue – It’s Coming Soon!
Posted in Garden, tagged chionodoxa, Winterthur Garden on March 18, 2013 | 2 Comments »
Linda Eirhart, Assistant Director, Horticulture, Curator, Plants writes: It’s coming! The spears of the Glory-of-the-Snow are emerging and the flowers are opening in the warmer pockets of the garden such as the East Terrace. Then one day, as if by magic, the bank turns a bright, electric blue. Primarily responsible for this azure phase is [...]
Live vs. the Lens
Posted in Garden, tagged blue, blue phase, bulbs, camera, chionodoxa, March Bank, photography, snowdrops, Winterthur Garden on March 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The morning light crests the hill. The birds are singing their spring songs. I have the garden to myself. I take a deep breath, I bend forward. I exhale. I take a deep breath and come back to standing. I take a deep breath and bend at the knees to a crouching position. I breathe [...]
This Week in the Garden, March 26, 2010
Posted in Garden, Garden Tips, tagged bulbs, chionodoxa, Garden, March Bank, propagation, scilla, snowdrops, Winterthur Garden on March 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I consider the time when the March Bank is in its full blue regalia to be the calm before the storm; the storm being the flowering flurry of April. There is a quiet composure to the vast blue display and when viewed from a distance, it is one in which you can get visually lost. [...]
Something Blue
Posted in Garden, tagged chionodoxa, March Bank on March 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
[Glory-of-the-Snow today] This afternoon Carol Long, Assistant Curator of the Garden, let me put her on the spot. I asked her to write up her prediction of when the March Bank’s famous ‘blue phase’ would reach its peak, so that we could let staff members and guests know when to expect the best display. Here is what [...]
“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 [...]
It’s Blue!
Posted in Garden, Plants, tagged chionodoxa, daffodils, March Bank, scilla, squill on March 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Just got in from a quick walk along the March Bank at Winterthur. The blue of Glory-of-the-Snow (Chionodoxa lucilliae) and Siberian Squill (Scilla sibirica) is coming along nicely. There is much more blue than I expected with this week’s chilly temperatures. I should never try to second-guess this -or any- garden! Today, it’s about 55 degrees [...]
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