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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘March Bank’
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 »
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 [...]
Bloom List #06 from March 14, 2011
Posted in Garden, Plants, tagged March Bank, Winterthur Garden on March 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Here is what our volunteers found in bloom on March 14, 2011. No estimates yet about when the March Bank will be blue, but I am seeing tight buds on squill and glory-of-the-snow. With this Friday’s warm weather, I imagine the blue will be out in full force on the East Terrace and in the warmer [...]
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. [...]
Winterthur Blue – March 25, 2010
Posted in Garden, Plants, tagged March Bank, Winterthur Garden on March 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Bob Davis shares beautiful photos of the Winterthur Garden taken on Thursday, March 25th, 2010. This is “the” weekend to see the March Bank in its incredible azure blue phase. Bob included photos of the East Terrace, just outside the house, resplendent in the soft yellow masses of Winterhazel and Cornelian cherry blossoms. Enjoy!
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 [...]
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 [...]
When, oh when, will the March Bank be Blue?
Posted in Garden, tagged blue, March Bank, Winterthur on March 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I just saw Carol Long in the garden and asked for a prediction of when the March Bank will be fully blue. With the next few days of warm temperatures, it will begin its transformation from yellow and white to blue. She guesses it will be at the peak of blue in about one week, around the [...]
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 »
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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- In addition to winter jasmine and snowdrops; adonis amurensis, winter aconite, and leucojum are all coming into bloom. 1 week ago
- Winter jasmine, snowdrops, and witch hazels in flower - winter aconite just starting to peek out of the ground. 2 weeks ago
- Almost 60 degrees! More snowdrops pushing - daffodil and lycoris leaves starting to come up too. 1 month ago
- Snowdrops, winter jasmine, and winter honeysuckle in flower on a sunny December day. 1 month ago
- Tuberose still in flower in kids vegetable garden, Colchicum on Oak Hill, and Begonia grandis in Enchanted Woods. 4 months ago
Winterthur Weather Data- Current data summary at 2012/2/4 February 4, 2012Time of Observations: 2012/02/04 05:10:00 EST Gage Precipitation (60): 0 in Air Temperature: 34.9 deg. F Dew Point Temperature: 25.5 deg. F Wind Speed: 1.7 mph Wind Direction: 279.8 deg. (W) Barometric Pressure: 30.33 inHg Solar Radiation: 0 W.m-2 Wind Gust Speed (5): 2.2 mph at 10:09 Gage Precipitation (5): 0 in Relative humidity: 68 % Wind Chill: 34.9 deg. […]
- Current data summary at 2012/2/4 February 4, 2012
