Winterthur, Delaware in late March.

Legacy of Henry Francis du Pont, 1880-1969, American.

 

 

 

 An area planted with cherries backs onto the Winterhazel walk:

white Sargent cherry, pink Accolade; and white Manchu cherries whose trunks are low on the ground and whose flowers are smaller.

They are in bloom now also.

 

 

 

white manchu cherries with Korean rhododendron and yellow winterhazel in the background

pink Accolade cherry

white Sargent cherry trees

the flowers of the Manchu cherry

 

 

 

Passing a blue atlas cedar at whose back are giant, pyramidal cherry trees 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

through the Sundial Garden

 

 

 

 

past the Ipheion circling a crabapple tree

 

 

 

 

 

 

and a Sargent crabapple stand which is budding when the Star magnolia it faces has already begun to shed

 

 

 

 

 

 

And as the star magnolia shed their flowers, the saucer magnolias begin to come into flower 

 

 

 

 

 

They are more mature and larger than the star magnolia.  And fragrant. 

 

 

On the way out of the grounds, I sometimes visit the koi in their couture colours:

 

 

 

 

overlooked by fern-leaved corydalis, solitary bloomers at this time of year in this area of the park.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dire delight.

 

 

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