Join us on April 30 for our Wednesdays at Winterthur (W@W) garden series. H.F. du Pont planted thousands of the Great White Trillium and other unique trillium species. Today’s walking tour with Assistant Director of Horticulture, Linda Eirhart, will highlight these delightful trilliums throughout the garden. She will be discussing their identification characteristics and unique cultural needs.
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W@W Trilliums: Woodland Beauties
Posted in Lectures, tagged trillium, Winterthur on April 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Spring Ephemerals
Posted in Garden, tagged trillium, wildflowers on April 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Bluebells, trilliums, and other “spring ephemerals” (wildflowers that disappear by late summer) are making their annual debut in the Winterthur Garden. Spring beauty (Claytonia virginica), bluebells (Mertensia virginica), trillium (Trillium spp.), and bellwort (Uvularia grandiflora) are at their peak in the garden. You will find them scattered among the beds of azaleas soon to be [...]
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About Winterthur
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.
Photo by Allen Rokach
