Great news! Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library is open during the pandemic. It is a gorgeous garden to visit year-round, but springtime is particularly spectacular. Children and families have the opportunity to come visit and enjoy the beautiful landscape filled with vast breathtaking swaths of colorful plantings. The splendor of seasonal color, texture, and fragrance is part of the experience while strolling through the garden.
At Enchanted Woods, children can have fun discovering the enchantment in the landscape while engaging in creative and active play. Something new is always happening at Enchanted Woods! Visitors can enjoy a skip along the Fairy Flower Labyrinth with terrific views of the magnolias in the Sundial Garden. They can step into the Forbidden Fairy Ring and experience the surprise of the fog filled mushroom ring.
They can swing on the Gathering Green benches or dance around the Maypole among the tiny daffodils planted there. Spring ephemerals such as daffodils Narcissus species , Siberian squill Scilla siberica , and glory of the snow Chionodoxa species are blooming in Enchanted Woods, as well as hellebores. In the adjacent Sundial Garden, the magnolias and flowering quince are blooming. In the greater garden, Italian windflowers and bloodroot are carpeting the woodland floors in blue and white while hellebores, winterhazels, cherries, forsythia, and pieris, are blooming.
The daffodils are starting with peak flowering a few weeks away. There are over , daffodils. It is really a great time to visit! In Defense of Public Lands: The Case against Privatization and Transfer , by Steven Davis Debates continue to rage over the merits or flaws of public land and whether or not it should be privatized—or at least radically reconfigured in some way. In Defense of Public Lands offers a comprehensive refutation of the market-oriented arguments. He briefly lays out the history and characteristics of public lands at the local, state, and federal levels while examining the numerous policy prescriptions for their privatization or, in the case of federal lands, transfer.
He considers the dimensions of environmental health; markets and valuation of public land, the tensions between collective values and individual preferences, the nature and performance of bureaucratic management, and the legitimacy of interest groups and community decision-making.
