Winterthur, Delaware, February 2016.  Photo taken by Mark Detwiler, a fellow traveler in these natural realms.

 

Below a partial view of flowering plants at Winterthur in late April and very early May 2018. 

 

 

 

Spirea

 Bridal wreath spirea below flowers of a Wilson pearlbush

Spirea with lilac

 

 

 

Korean Spice Viburnum, fragrant

A Korean spice viburnum hidden from the pathway by evergreens which it envelops with fragrance

The immature flower of the Chinese snowball viburnum (Viburnum Macrocephalum ‘Sterile’) which, in my memory, also turns white

 

The flower of a  Fragrant Snowball (Viburnum X. Carlcephalum)

 

 

Saucer Magnolia (Magnolia Soulangiana)

A saucer magnolia framed by a Norway spruce 

 

 

Wilson Pearlbush (Exochorda Gilbertii, Rosaceae)  

 

 

Kerria Japonica cultivar, Rosaceae

 

 

 

Flowering Almond  (Prunus Triloba, Rosaceae)

 

 

Fothergilla (Fothergilla Gardenii), native, fragrant and without petals

 

 

 

Yellow flowering magnolia cultivar