Winterthur, Delaware is the legacy of Henry Francis du Pont and Mt. Cuba in Hockessin, Delaware of the Lammot du Pont Copelands

 

Into the Azalea woods at Winterthur in mid-June,

 

 

 

the flowers of hardy Kurume azalea bushes have faded;

Rhododendrons persist but the tree rhododendrons are almost done

 

 

 

 

At their feet for the briefest time,  small oases of Turk’s Cap lilies:

martagon lilies  (Eurasia) at Winterthur

and the native lily, Lilium Superbum, at both Winterthur and Mt. Cuba, Delaware. 

They are perennials and flower very briefly in June and July.

 

 

 

which the eye picks up first in small oases of pale pink, grey-pink and grey purple, gold, bronze.

 

 

 

 

Lilium Superbum, native, Winterthur

 

 

 

Lilium Superbum, native, at Mt. Cuba, Hockessin, Delaware