Wintherthur, a wonderful Garden to visit

Whenever we travel we ALWAYS try and find a Garden or Arboretum to explore. This one was from a 2010 trip to Philadelphia for the Master Nursery Garden Center Meeting (group of independent Nursery owners) We thoroughly enjoyed our visit to Winterthur, even though it was August, super hot and to a native Oregonian the east coast is MUGGY!! lol Winterthur (pronounced “winter-tour”)  was founded by Henry Francis du Pont, it is a wonderful museum of  the du Pont family’s life and its 60-acre naturalistic garden is among the country’s best.

Such a fun Children's Garden too, this is the story of this part of the garden: there is an old saying, "Faerie folks are in old oaks." The woodland fairies are nature spirits who live on Oak Hill. The fairies watched over the children as they played. The children thought it was the wind whistling in their ears when Lark, the music fairy, sang for them. Blossom, the flower fairy, led them to a patch of lilies-of-the-valley so they could pick sweet-smelling bouquets for their mothers. Glimmer, the magician fairy, sometimes played tricks on them. If the children removed their hats and gloves, he would hide them in the strangest places (but he almost always let the children find their things before it was time to go home).

This is a very SMALL sampling of the beauty of Winterthur, a place well worth a visit if you ever find yourself in the area!