Thursday, June 5, 2025

Winterthur Garden (6/5/2025)

Thursday, June 5, 2025 (continued)
On to the Winterthur Garden:
The Reflecting Pool was once the du Pont family
swimming pool, with changing rooms (KSS)
The Reflecting Pool (by landscape designer Marian Coffin)
with a view toward the mansion
Pool outbuilding and a back wall with three brass grates
covering hi-fi speakers that allowed enjoyment of music
Glad Garden sundial
The Glade Garden started as a rock garden
(1920s, by Marian Coffin) with waterfalls
Several small pools contain Cyprinus sp/Koi (KSS)
A greenhouse complex (1903-1904) with some plants
and then some sitting areas
Papaver somniferum/Zahir Poppy (KSS)
Still some rhododendron blooms
Very tall trees in a garden that is mostly wooded
A "burly" maple tree
March Bank along the stream of Clenny Run is known
for millions of bulb plants and early spring flowers
Nature is taking over this bench
Icewell Terrace is at the location of a former ice house
Hydrangea arborescens/Smooth Hydrangea
Enchanted Woods (1990s by W Gary Smith) was
designed to look as if it were created by fairies
Water's Edge frog fountain
Begonia boliviensis
Kids in a giant bird nest of woven branches
Kent at the thatched-roof Faerie Cottage
Inside the Faerie Cottage
My dad put me in the well ...
Kent pumps water into the trough
Water spills from the trough
Turtle sculptures
Tulip Tree House is made from a
hollowed tree trunk
Chimes ring when you open and close this gate
Kent, the sign clearly states,
"Never ever step inside a fairy ring!" ...
... and look what happened!
The Green Man emerges from the earth
Near Oak Hill, Begonia grandis/Hardy Begonias
have spread through the woods
Hardy begonias are known for the reddish
undersides of the leaves
Lilium hansonii/Japanese Turk's-cap Lily
Lilium martagon/Martagon Lily
Quarry Garden (1962) with Primula beesiana/
Candelabra Primroses in pink and lavender 
Quarry Garden Terrace
The Platanus occidentalis/American Sycamore
of Sycamore Hill
Sundial Garden (1955, by Marian Coffin)
in the former family tennis court has
an armillary sphere sundial 
Geranium x cantabrigiense 'Biokovo'/
Biokovo Cranesbill
Chaenomeles sp/Flowering Quince fruit
Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca'/Blue Atlas Cedar
The needles of a blue atlas cedar
Part of the Pinetum