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From White to Blue

Posted in Garden, Plants, tagged , , , , , , , , , 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 [...]

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Need Some Direction in Life?

Posted in Garden, tagged , , , , , , on March 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

We all want to feel as if we know what direction we are going in but let’s face it, sometimes we do not have a clue! Although the white arrows may not help in guiding you through life, they can offer some assistance in navigating you toward the flowering displays in The Winterthur Garden. This blooming journey [...]

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Old Fashioned GPS

Posted in Garden, Tours, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Do you find the Winterthur Garden hard to navigate?  Unsure where the path may lead you?  Is the newly emerging foliage obscuring your view of the Museum (the main referencing point when out “in the wild”)?  Well fear no more! The white arrows have made their return and just in time to celebrate the glorious [...]

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Summer Interns

Posted in Garden, tagged , , , , on July 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

A moment was finally found in between watering new plantings to introduce you to some new faces in the garden. Our summer interns began working with us in late May and will continue through mid-August as their school schedule allows.  They work alongside staff in the department to learn plant I.D., design, and horticultural skills as they pertain [...]

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This Week in the Garden, April 9, 2010

Posted in Garden, Garden Tips, Tours, tagged , , , , , , , , , , 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 [...]

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This Week in the Garden, March 26, 2010

Posted in Garden, Garden Tips, tagged , , , , , , , 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. [...]

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Garden Faeries at Work

Posted in Enchanted Woods, Events, Garden, tagged , on March 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Quercus, our elf friend who helped create Enchanted Woods, has been busy at work preparing the new Upside-down Tree for the garden. In February, starting at the top of the tree, he removed the bark and the dead wood, notice the color differences. By mid-March he had removed all the bark. This week Quercus has [...]

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Almost Summer!

Posted in Garden, tagged , , , , on June 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Trying to beat the coming thunderstorm, I took an early afternoon stroll through part of the Winterthur Garden today. What fun on a low-humidity late-spring day! ferns – lush and frilly and fresh astilbe, daylillies and hydrangea near the Reflecting Pool – sure summer favorites a new color scheme in the containers around the reflecting pool [...]

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