On a walk with garden staff members today we spotted the first snowdrop (or the last, depending on how you define it). This snowdrop variety, Galanthus ‘Potter’s Prelude’, is the earliest of the minor bulbs to flower in the Winterthur garden.
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The First (or Last) Snowdrop
Posted in Garden, tagged snowdrop, Winterthur on December 3, 2008 | No Comments »
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 where you [...]
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Winterthur Museum & Country Estate is located among the rolling hills of Delaware’s Brandywine Valley. At the core of the estate’s 1,000 acres is a century’s old garden where vibrant displays of bulbs, perennials, and flowering trees and shrubs unfold beneath a majestic canopy of trees. For more information about Winterthur visit our Web site at winterthur.org.
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