Girl Scout Programs

Winterthur offers an exciting array of programs just for Girl Scouts! Come earn your "Social Butterfly", "Textile Artist" or "Flowers" badges, proceed on your "Flower Garden Journey" or just take a tour with your troop.

The cost for each program varies and is listed below. Admission for parents who would like to visit the museum while their daughter is participating in a program is $15 (excluding Yuletide and Enchanted Summer Day).

Please register for all programs through the Chesapeake Bay Girl Scout Council by calling 800.341.4007. To organize a house tour for your troop, call Winterthur Information and Tours at 800.448.3883 or 888.4600.

Family Activities

Girl Scout Programs

Girl Scout Programs

Quarry Garden

Peony Garden

Oak Hill

Pinetum

Sycamore Hill

Magnolia Bend

Sundial Garden

Winterhazel Walk

Azalea Woods

March Bank

Quarry Garden
Begun in 1902, when H. F. du Pont was 22, March Bank is the oldest surviving garden area at Winterthur. Du Pont studied The Wild Garden (1904) and other writings by British horticulturists William Robinson and Gertrude Jekyll. Using these ideas, du Pont began naturalizing daffodils on the bank and by the 1940s had planted thousands of snowdrops, snowflakes, crocus, squills, and glory-of-the-snow.

Peony Garden
The herbaceous and tree peonies feature a dazzling array of white, pink, red, yellow, bronze, peach, and maroon flowers in May. Originally designed as an iris garden by landscape architect Marian Coffin in 1929, it was adapted to showcase the work of Dr. A. P. Saunders, a noted peony hybridizer.

Oak Hill
Stroll along the grass paths that afford spectacular views of the surrounding countryside and pond below. Drifts of colorful native and exotic azaleas bloom from April into summer. Lavender colchicum carpet the hill in autumn, echoed by the purple beautyberries nearby.

Pinetum
This rich collection of conifers, or cone-bearing trees, includes pines, firs, spruces, cedars, and their relatives. H. F. du Pont’s father, Henry Algernon du Pont, began the Pinetum in 1914. A notable collection of flowering quince forms a floral corridor beneath the evergreens.

Family Activities

Girl Scout Programs

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