Meghan Gallagher, a Winterthur horticulturist, led the Wednesdays at Winterthur walk on June 10th. She follows up with more great information about butterflies.
We had a gorgeous day and the company was great! Many important questions surfaced throughout the walk, including the significance of butterflies in the garden. Besides their beautiful colors, lepidopteran’s are nature’s pollinators [...]
Posts Tagged ‘wildflowers’
Love your Lep’s: Native Plants for a Butterfly Garden Review
Posted in Garden, tagged butterflies, environment, insects, native plants, nature, wildflowers, Winterthur Garden on June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
W@W Spring Ephemerals of Azalea Woods
Posted in Lectures, tagged bluebells, spring beauty, spring ephemerals, wildflowers, windflower, Winterthur on April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Join us on April 23 for our Wednesdays at Winterthur (W@W) garden series. Today Susan Sibley, Winterthur horticulturist, will highlight spring ephemerals such as Claytonia virginica (spring beauty), Anemone apennina (Italian windflower), Mertensia virginica (Virginia bluebells), and Sanguinaria Canadensis (bloodroot).
Meet at 11:30 am at the Greenhouse Area. Dress for the weather and wear walking shoes! The program lasts [...]
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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- Saw my first scilla in flower and fragrant honeysuckle and sweetshrub are in flower (easier to smell than they are to see). 1 day ago
- Tommies are at their peak on the East Terrace. Snowdrops, snowflakes, winter aconite, and adonis are popping up everywhere. 5 days ago
- Tommies, snowdrops, winter aconite, and Amur adonis in flower on the East Terrace and along the thawed areas of the March Bank. 1 week ago
- Snow, snow, snow. I am sure that snowdrops are under there somewhere. 2 weeks ago
- Snowdrops are out along the March Bank. A beautiful snowdrop is in full flower on the East Terrace by the Loggia. 1 month ago
