If you are in the DC area, I hope you will join me and other flower lovers at our DC Flower Safari Meetups. The next Meetup is scheduled for Saturday, May 11th at Winterthur in Wilmington, DE.
Plan at this point for May 11 is to head to Winterthur in Wilmington, DE. Winterthur has gardens and a museum. Like Longwood Gardens – it’s an old duPont estate.
Looks to be about a 2 hour drive from Bethesda to Winterthur. Let’s plan on carpooling from Grosvenor Metro Station. We’ll leave the Metro station at 7:30.
Admission to Winterthur is $ 18, which includes a tour of the mansion. For $ 30 you can reserve a place on a tour of the mansion at a specific time. If you belong to a botanical garden that participates in the American Horticultural Societies Recipricol Admission programs – your membership will get you into Winterthur for free.
Tulips are one of my favorite spring flowers. I love seeing all the different colors and shapes in them at the local gardens. I’ve put together a new video for you with some of my favorite tulip photographs. My tulip photos are accompanied by the wonderful harp music of Pamela Bruner. The music for this video is Vivaldi’s "Spring and Winter" from the Four Seasons from her Classical Reverie CD.
If you enjoyed my tulip photos, I do have several of them available as gallery-wrapped canvases on my website.
I’ve photographed Toad Lilies (tricyrtis X sinimone) on a couple of occasions in recent years. Each time I see them, I’m reminded of what unusual flowers they have.
Toad lilies are members of the Lily family native to the Himilayas and Eastern Asia. They tend to be late-summer/fall blooming perennials. Here in the US, they can be grown in USDA zones 5a to 9b.
I’ve had a wonderful time recently photographing some epidendrum orchids. I love the bright shades of red, yellow and orange that I’m seeing in these delicate orchids.
Epidendrum orchids are native to the western hemisphere – found from South Carolina to Argentina. They grow in all sorts of locations and conditions – ranging from jungles to along the shore.
If you are in the DC area, I hope you will join me and other flower lovers at our DC Flower Safari Meetups. The next Meetup is scheduled for Saturday, May 11th at Winterthur in Wilmington, DE.
Plan at this point for May 11 is to head to Winterthur in Wilmington, DE. Winterthur has gardens and a museum. Like Longwood Gardens – it’s an old duPont estate.
Looks to be about a 2 hour drive from Bethesda to Winterthur. Let’s plan on carpooling from Grosvenor Metro Station. We’ll leave the Metro station at 7:30.
Admission to Winterthur is $ 18, which includes a tour of the mansion. For $ 30 you can reserve a place on a tour of the mansion at a specific time. If you belong to a botanical garden that participates in the American Horticultural Societies Recipricol Admission programs – your membership will get you into Winterthur for free.
