The March Bank is beautiful today with waves of blue flowers in full bloom – Glory-of-the-Snow and Siberian Squill. Now the question: “How long will it last?” We’re guessing, based on how incredibly blue it is today, along with this week’s chilly temperatures, that we’ll enjoy the March Bank’s blue phase through the weekend, April 6-7. But even if [...]
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How Long Will it Last?
Posted in Garden, tagged glory-of-the-snow, March Bank, squill on April 2, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Blue Phase of March Bank Set to Peak this Week!
Posted in Garden, tagged glory-of-the-snow, March Bank, Siberian Squill, Winterthur Garden on March 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Carol Long, associate curator of the garden, is kind enough to make a prediction about the March Bank’s blue phase of Siberian Squill and Glory-of-the-Snow: Based on night and day time temperatures this week, plus the chance of rains Monday into Tuesday, I think that the March Bank will peak Wednesday or Thursday, March 14 [...]
This Week in the Garden, April 2, 2010
Posted in Garden, tagged cherry, daffodil, glory-of-the-snow, magnolia, star magnolia, weather, Winterhazel on April 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There is one word to describe the garden this week and that is fleeting. In a period of seven days we will have experienced relentless, driving rains, wind gusts to 40 mph and temperature swings that vary from upper 20’s to near 80’s. How are plants supposed to respond to that? The nature of our [...]
This Week in the Garden 3-19-10
Posted in Garden, Garden Tips, Plants, tagged bulbs, crocus, gardening, glory-of-the-snow, March Bank, snowdrops, spring snowflake, squill, tips, winter aconite, Winterthur Garden, woodland flowers, woodland gardening on March 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It is amazing to think about the fact that two weeks ago we still had a fair amount of snow on the ground. Now, the woodland floor of many of our garden areas are covered in a multitude of flowers, with more to emerge with the impending warm weekend. I know that we are just about to [...]
Collecting Bulb Seeds
Posted in Garden, tagged glory-of-the-snow, seed, snowdrop, winter aconite on May 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Winter Aconite It seems as though spring has just started and already we are seeing signs of seed-ripening on our earliest bulbs; snowdrops, winter aconite and glory-of-the-snow. When the green seed pods begin to turn yellow, this is a signal to begin collecting the pods. Let them air dry and split open. Then cast the seed [...]
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