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obsessedbyneon · 3 months

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Longwood Gardens, in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. Designed and constructed by the horticultural staff of Longwood Gardens. It's one of the premier horticultural display venues in the world, was first established as an arboretum in 1798 by Joshua and Samuel Peirce.

The land and its arboretum was purchased by Pierre S. du Pont in 1906 to preserve the trees, and Mr. du Pont personally oversaw many of the improvements until the Gardens were turned over to a foundation he set up in 1946. While the exterior gardens enjoyed an international notoriety early in this century, Longwood Gardens is now equally well known for its indoor displays.

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#Scan #With this post I end the interior landscape book series #longwood gardens #kennett square #pensylvania #interior landscape #interior green #arboterum #vintage aesthetic #dupont

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friend-crow · 11 months

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You’d better believe I touched this entire garden.

I want some of these guys.

#Longwood gardens #that’s not my voice btw

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ohjardin · 2 years

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#Longwood Gardens

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floraviola · 7 days

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Blue Himalayan Poppy 💙

#my photos #original photography #royal blue #blue himalayan poppy #floral #blue flowers #nature #photographers on tumblr #longwood gardens #pennsylvania #my edits

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mobile-artifact · 2 years

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Longwood Gardens, PA

#longwood gardens #longwood #pennsylvania #pa #gardens #greenhouse #plants #photography #architecture

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argyleheir · 4 months

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December 10 | Baubles and shine

#longwood gardens #holiday decor #botanical garden #mid atlantic #my snapshots

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alex51324 · 4 months

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Botanical garden expedition!

Today's adventure was a visit to Longwood Gardens, a large botanical garden a reasonable drive from my home. They cleverly draw crowds in what would otherwise be their slow season, with a big display of Christmas lights, trees, and other decorations.

It's hugely popular; you have to reserve tickets in advance, and it's timed entry, where you can stay as long as you want, but you have to arrive within half an hour of the time that's on your ticket--so they don't have a zillion people showing up just at dusk, I guess. By the time I decided to go, in the middle of this past week, the latest arrival time they had left for Friday was 1 PM. (Every Saturday and Sunday until the end of the Christmas event is sold out; luckily, I don't work on Fridays and my dad is retired.)

It worked out OK--we went through all of the indoor displays while they were just crowded and not completely packed. Here's a picture I took in the main conservatory:

The flower beds in here were mainly poinsettias, amarylis, and paperwhites (shown). The bright green lawn in December was also an interesting novelty. There were about a dozen different Christmas trees, and some rooms with period furniture/Christmas decorations. This corridor was neat:

(The people are strangers; see above re: crowds.) This hallway leads to the orchid room. A lot of people just zipped right through the orchid room--I guess since it didn't have anything special in it for Christmas--so I took advantage of the elbow room and ability to get a few pictures without being in anyone's way:

It smelled really nice in there, too:

We also had plenty of time to explore the grounds and decide what we wanted to go back and see again once it was lit up.

They had several of these treehouse things, all decorated for Christmas:

This one had these Dr. Seuss-looking trumpet things:

And Christmas trees, of course:

We also had a walk through the Wildflower Meadow, which is the Gardens' natural area. Admittedly, in December is doesn't look a whole lot different from, say, a soybean field, which we can walk through any time we want, but it was nice to get away from the crowds for a bit, and we talked about coming back in the summer when the wildflowers will be in bloom. Here's some staghorn sumac:

The destination for the meadow walk is this 300-year-old farmhouse:

It has a few exhibits inside, about the history of the house and what you can see in the meadow (when it's not December). I liked the cooking hearth, of course:

The big tree next to the farmhouse is completely wrapped in lights, so that was #1 on our list of things we wanted to see lit up. We didn't hike up to the house again in the dark; there's a place you can see it from the edge of the platform:

The picture doesn't do it justice at all; either my phone camera just isn't good enough to take pictures of Christmas lights, or I didn't get the settings right. Here's a similar tree in the middle of the meadow, that came out a little better:

This area near the edge of the meadow was one of the neatest places for lights. There's a boardwalk that runs along it; one section they had these lights that were done to look like torches, scattered through the grass, and then another section they had these multicolored orbs that pulsed through a range of colors.

Back to daytime, I was fascinated with this berry bush:

It's called beautyberry, and the purple is even more vibrant in person. Here's a closeup:

Around here, it's not hard to find red and orange berries on winter bushes, but purple was new for me.

The other big thing at this garden is the water features; my dad and I both remembered them from (separate) visits some decades ago. A lot of them don't run in December, of course, but they have one section of fountains that do:

They do a show with lights and music, every 15 minutes. (More strangers in the picture.) And here's another water feature that I attempted to take a picture of:

There was a lot of other cool stuff that I couldn't get pictures of--several tunnels of lights, and lots of trees lit from below with colored lights, like the green ones in the picture above. There was one group of trees lit in red and silver, that looked really nice. But by that point I had realized that it made more sense to just look at things, rather than taking disappointing pictures of them, so I'll leave you with one more of the meadow area:

#christmas #longwood gardens

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wordrummager · 9 months

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reflecting pool in the conservatory

a leafy corridor

tropical views in Pennsylvania

#photography #summer #travels #Longwood Gardens

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brfphoto · 2 years

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Longwood Gardens. Kennett Square, PA.

ISO 400 | 210mm | f/6.3 | 1/125 sec

#brfphoto #photography #photographers on tumblr #original photography #lensblr #lux lit #luxlit #biutifulpics #imiging #clubimiging #telescopical #gray-card #galeriedesartsvisuels #originalphotographers #fern #longwood #longwood gardens #pennsylvania

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so-i-did-this-thing · 2 years

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I miss my old Nikon digital camera circa 2007. I went to Longwood Gardens about this time and probably spent an hour taking photos of the water lilies alone.

#water lily #longwood gardens #flower

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obsessedbyneon · 3 months

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