Jim Pirhalla, Horticulturist in the Pinetum writes: No, this isn’t a blog about gun violence. It’s actually about a charming little flowering bulb. Charming, at least in this region, for in the South, it may be considered a lawn pest to some. The plant that I’m referring to is Ipheion uniflorum, the spring starflower, also [...]
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Spring’s Shooting Stars
Posted in Garden, Garden Tips, Plants, tagged April flowers, bulbs, bulbs in lawn, Ipheion, Pinetum, spring flowers, star flower on April 10, 2013 | 2 Comments »
Quarry Garden, Sundial Garden, and Azalea Woods
Posted in Garden, Plants, tagged Azalea Woods, Pinetum, Winterthur Garden on April 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Just before noon today, I walked to the visitor center via the Quarry Garden. Always good to take a long detour through the Winterthur Garden. Along the way, I met people taking photographs, chatting with each other, and drinking in the amazing beauty of the garden at the peak of azalea blooms. One guest said in [...]
He’s Everywhere!
Posted in Garden, tagged Pinetum, Sundial Garden, Winterthur Garden on January 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Frank Quinnette continues his introduce-the-horticulturist project: Most places I’ve worked there is always that one person who nearly everybody looks to for answers. Jim is that guy. To be fair I’d guess he doesn’t have all the answers. He shouldn’t have to. That can be a lot of pressure for anybody. But as [...]
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 [...]
This Week in the Garden, April 9, 2010
Posted in Garden, Garden Tips, Tours, tagged cherries, Garden, garden tip, lilacs, magnolia, Magnolia Bend, petal fall, petals, Pinetum, Prunus 'Accolade', spring flowers 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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Winterthur Weather Data- Current data summary at 2013/5/23 May 23, 2013Time of Observations: 2013/05/23 19:45:00 EDT Gage Precipitation (60): 0 in Air Temperature: 70.9 deg. F Dew Point Temperature: 67.6 deg. F Wind Speed: 10 mph Wind Direction: 146.4 deg. (SSE) Barometric Pressure: 29.84 inHg Solar Radiation: 22 W.m-2 Wind Gust Speed (5): 12.2 mph Gage Precipitation (5): 0 in Relative humidity: 90 % Soil Temperature: 72.4 deg. […]
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