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 [...]
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Quarry Garden, Sundial Garden, and Azalea Woods
Posted in Garden, Plants, tagged Azalea Woods, Pinetum, Winterthur Garden on April 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Winterthur Bloom List for April 18, 2012
Posted in Garden, Plants, tagged Azalea Woods, Winterthur Garden on April 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This is the weekend to see Azalea Woods! Particularly Friday (today) and Saturday with the prediction of rain on Sunday. I’ll attach the list of what’s in bloom, but it’s best to come and see it for yourself. Nothing (except maybe dark chocolate) compares to standing in the middle of Azalea Woods when it’s at [...]
Azalea Woods and Peony Garden Walk
Posted in Garden, tagged Azalea Woods, Peony garden, Winterthur Garden on April 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This morning, I had a few minutes to walk from the museum to the visitor center. Of course, I had to walk through the peony garden to see how things are going there. A few tree peonies in bloom and one herbaceous peony, but for the most part, peonies are still to come. Just above [...]
Filipendula: Plant Pick of the Week
Posted in Garden, Plants, tagged Filipenoula, Winterthur Garden on April 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Each week in April and May, one of Winterthur’s garden guides takes a look at the offerings in the museum plant shop. (It might be a ruse to get the guides to buy plants for their home gardens…) This week, Mary Patterson took a look and found an unusual plant, at least it was unknown [...]
Winterthur Plants for Your Home Garden
Posted in Garden, Plants, tagged azaleas, Kurume, trillium, Winterthur Garden on April 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
To many people who have visited Winterthur, the name means azaleas. And indeed, azaleas are the most widely used plants at Winterthur, for they are spectacular in color and excellent in foliage and habit. They are planted throughout the gardens, but one section is truly theirs – the “Azalea Woods.” …It was here that [...]
Dove Tree in Full Bloom!
Posted in Garden, Plants, tagged davidia, dove tree, Winterthur Garden on April 17, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Last year, on May 5, I took photographs of Winterthur’s Dove Tree (Davidia involucrata) in full bloom near the Dorrance Gallery and Reflecting Pool garden. Guess what? It’s in full bloom today! The white bracts surrounding the flowers will probably open up a bit more and become a brighter white over the next few days. It’s a [...]
Sam Watters: Don’t miss this free lecture on April 18!
Posted in Garden, Lectures, tagged Sam Watters, Winterthur Garden on April 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Wednesday, April 18 “Gardens for a Beautiful America 1895–1935: Photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnston” 6:00 pm, Copeland Lecture Hall at Winterthur’s visitor center Join author Sam Watters as he discusses the work of photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston, drawing from 250 of her colored photographs of urban and suburban gardens that were preserved by the Library [...]
Daffodils – Delaware to Scotland
Posted in Garden, Plants, tagged Backhouse daffodils, Winterthur Garden on April 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Linda Eirhart, assistant director of the garden, writes: H. F. du Pont trialed over 300 different types of daffodils during his life-time. Sixteen are cultivars developed by the Backhouse family of Great Britain. William Backhouse II, 1807 – 1869, started a tradition of daffodil breeding that was continued by three of his sons, his daughter-in-law, and a [...]
Winterthur Bloom List for April 11, 2012
Posted in Garden, tagged Azalea Woods, Winterthur Garden on April 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Hooray – spring is here! This document, prepared by two loyal volunteers, lists 9 1/2 pages of bloom in the Winterthur Garden. CurrentWinterthurGardenBloomList Azalea Woods isn’t quite at peak today, but watch for it soon, especially with high weekend temperatures. There are plenty of azaleas in bloom in other places. Look for them in [...]
Raven One Swoops in on Winterthur
Posted in Garden, Plants, tagged Americorp, Raven One, Winterthur Garden on April 13, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Crystal Keiper writes about her Americorp team’s experience at Winterthur this spring. The team has been working at Winterthur since early March and will bid farewell on April 19. Raven One is composed of a diverse group of ten individuals from nine different states, only one originally from the East Coast. http://www.americorps.gov/about/programs/nccc.asp When Raven One first [...]
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- Primroses and peonies for Mothers Day. 3 days ago
- Azaleas are moving along quickly and rhododendrons are looking beautiful. 2 weeks ago
- Azaleas and more azaleas! Rhododendrons coming into flower too. 3 weeks ago
- Bluebells and daffodils! 1 month ago
- Winter hazel, magnolias, Korean azalea, and anemone all coming into flower. 2 months ago
Winterthur Weather Data- Current data summary at 2012/5/16 May 16, 2012Time of Observations: 2012/05/16 09:20:00 EDT Gage Precipitation (60): 0 in Air Temperature: 68.9 deg. F Dew Point Temperature: 67.1 deg. F Wind Speed: 2 mph Wind Direction: 227.3 deg. (SW) Barometric Pressure: 29.97 inHg Solar Radiation: 337 W.m-2 Wind Gust Speed (5): 3.3 mph at 9:18 Gage Precipitation (5): 0 in Relative humidity: 94 %
- Current data summary at 2012/5/16 May 16, 2012
