I thought everyone might like to see a galanthophile event in the US. On March 10, Winterthur Garden in Delaware, which encompasses 60 acres and has the best naturalized collection of snowdrops in the US, held its annual Bank to Bend lecture. The speaker was David Culp, a very knowledgeable US horticulturalist with a passion for snowdrops (you may have met him at past Galas), and his topic was "Snowdrops: Jewels of the Winter Garden". The lecture was preceded by a fabulous brunch and followed by guided tours of the March Bank of bulbs. Normally, snowdrops would have been in bloom but because of the extremely warm weather that we have been having it was more glory-of-the-snow. Follow this link to see a short slideshow of the gardens:
http://gardenblog.winterthur.org/2012/03/16/friday-wanderings/. Carolyn
1. The Winterthur mansion, formerly the home of the du Pont family and now the premier museum of American decorative arts, with glory of the snow.
2. Carolyn's Shade Gardens sales table of snowdrops, hellebores, etc.
3. Charles Cresson, a US bulb authority, with a prominent local collector.
4. The lecturer David Culp on left, local collector middle, Hitch Lyman from Temple Nursery, whom many of you know, on the right.
