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. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘snowdrops’
This Week in the Garden, March 26, 2010
Posted in Garden, Garden Tips, tagged snowdrops, March Bank, bulbs, Garden, Winterthur Garden, scilla, chionodoxa, propagation on March 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This Week in the Garden 3-19-10
Posted in Garden, Garden Tips, Plants, tagged crocus, snowdrops, March Bank, bulbs, winter aconite, glory-of-the-snow, Winterthur Garden, woodland gardening, woodland flowers, squill, gardening, spring snowflake, tips 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 [...]
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 [...]
Ode to Winter
Posted in Garden, tagged snowdrops, winter garden, Winter Jasmine, Winterthur Garden on January 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Winter is neck in neck with autumn as one of my favorite seasons. Spring’s beauty is unrivaled hands down but in the gardening world, is fraught with a hefty to do list and although summer’s long days are invigorating the heat and humidity dampen my enthusiasm. Fall is in a league of its own—cooling temperatures, [...]
Snowdrops and Winter Jasmine
Posted in Garden, tagged snowdrops, Winter Jasmine, Winterthur Garden on January 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Maggie Lidz observed snowdrops and winter jasmine in bloom this week in the Winterthur Garden. What have you seen? One of the best things about working here is the pleasure of the garden. The winter jasmine is in bloom now. It has been hanging down the staircase wall since 1931. A special soil well was [...]
Dividing Snowdrops
Posted in Garden, Garden Tips, Plants, Techniques, tagged propagation, snowdrops on April 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Each spring I look forward to the flowering of the snowdrops (Galanthus spp.) and also to the task of dividing some of the larger clumps. There are a couple schools of thought of when the best time is to divide them, some say “in the green” just after flowering and others prefer to wait until [...]







