Winterthur's Sycamore Hill
These photos popped up on my computer's slide show the other day, and it was so refreshing to see some spring favorites again! (I truly have a weakness for spring.)
We visited Winterthur (pronounced Winter-tour) in May for the first time. It is a beautiful garden for spring as its founder, H.F. du Pont used a garden journal to plant his succession of blooms that starts in early spring. After walking past the beautiful Quarry Garden with its hundreds of giant primroses, I found this hillside covered in our native redbud trees (Ceris canadensis L.) and matching pink azaleas (Rhododendron).
We visited Winterthur (pronounced Winter-tour) in May for the first time. It is a beautiful garden for spring as its founder, H.F. du Pont used a garden journal to plant his succession of blooms that starts in early spring. After walking past the beautiful Quarry Garden with its hundreds of giant primroses, I found this hillside covered in our native redbud trees (Ceris canadensis L.) and matching pink azaleas (Rhododendron).
Cercis and azaleas bloom up a winding hill to an outlook at Winterthur Gardens.
Sycamore tree on Sycamore Hill with a small summer house from which to enjoy this outlook of the rolling hills.
Summerhouse on Sycamore Hill.
You can just see the path from the bridge over the Quarry Garden on the right.
Looking down the hill to the Quarry area.
Amazing how the color of the redbud and azalea flowers flow into one another.
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I 'do' want to try this this coming spring, IF I can 'find' it @ a nursery to plant in my yard! :) :) :)
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SO pretty!
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