Touring at Longwood Gardens

We were visiting our son in Pennsylvania

over the Christmas/New Years holiday 

and we went to Longwood Gardens 

for a tour. It's my 2nd Christmas visiting 

there. This year was so warm we were 

able to walk around the grounds before 

we went into the conservatory to see all 

of their floral decorations.
This is a long post- get some coffee or tea and read on!   

 Of course it's technically winter now

so there aren't flowers blooming outside, 

but it was a very pleasant tour just

the same.

I took pictures of bare trees because

I like their architecture

 The Square fountain

 A garden of Wisterias

I'd love to see these blooming!

 Even the Canada Geese were

enjoying the day

 We weren't sure what these men

were doing, but it looked interesting

 The Canopy Cathedral 

tree house

 The Italian Water Gardens

Pruned Little Leaf Linden Trees

  I was told this is a London Plane

Tree

 Not positive what this tree

is but it's huge..

 This one is a 

Princess Tree from China

 The Peirce-duPont Home with a

conservatory between two wings

of the home

 I have to say if I suddenly get rich

I want one of these for my home!!

Mr. duPont spent his money wisely!

This is one of the latter additions he

made to the home.

 A tree decorated with bird houses

and dried grasses

 This bridge leads to a nice little

restaurant where we enjoyed a

warm cup of coffee and some

pastries

 I'm up on the bridge looking 

down here…

 

Heading towards the 

conservatory now

It's a huge place...let's go in!

 There is a fair amount of people

visiting..it's nearly impossible

to get a photo without someone

else in it!

 These paper whites were very

pungent and stood out the minute

we came in the door...

 This faces the ballroom where there

is an organ with over 10,000 pipes

 A topiary of red poinsettias

 Amaryllis

 Fountains of all sorts throughout

These were the prettiest and

most soft colored poinsettias I've

ever seen.  

They are called 

Euphoriba Pulcherrima 

'PER975'

(Visions of Grandeur)

 This is a long hallway with bathrooms

surrounded by walls of live

plants

 It's amazing

 Decorated trees throughout

 The children at the local 

schools make decorations for 

trees each year.

Always a fun bunch of trees

to see

Outside the conservatory are these

fabulous formal grounds.  At night they

are lit with Christmas lights and it's

gorgeous.  We had to leave before

nightfall but we saw them last year.

I hope you enjoyed the tour- 

I know I did!