For the first time in its life, our East Plaza English Yew recently received a variety of neighbors—new four-season underplantings designed to accent the tree and add to its story.

Longwood has a remarkable number of places within the garden for you to escape the heat and put your life into chill-mode.

The Longwood Gardens Library was very fortunate to receive a recent gift reflective of our commitment to the conservation of native orchids: a rare 1931 two-volume set of Orchids of the North Eastern United States photographed from nature and published by American fine arts photographer Edwin Hale Lincoln.

When you think of summer flowers, it’s important to consider the differences between summer plants that thrive in hot summer climates versus those that prefer mild summer temperatures.

Located adjacent to our Student Exhibition Garden, our new-this-season bog garden mimics naturally occurring bogs in the eastern United States, where carnivorous plants, orchids, blueberries, and plants that like having “wet feet” can grow naturally.

Read along for how, now five years after first detecting boxwood blight in our Gardens, we inspect for and protect against this disease.

Now available in The Garden Shop are joyful bouquets sourced straight from Idea Garden horticulturists and designed into bouquets by the creative minds at The Garden Shop, just steps away.

What is your favorite tree? It’s a time-honored question that will evoke answers from even the most taciturn individual.

The five-acre Main Fountain Garden is home to three allées totaling 164 littleleaf linden trees. All that goes into maintaining and pruning these trees may surprise you … and now, with a new addition to the process, it’s more precise than ever.

Our newly enhanced Waterlily Court is an aquatic showcase like no other—and it’s making its much-anticipated debut on May 9, marking the completion of Longwood Reimagined.

Want to learn how you could incorporate the best natives into your home garden or landscape? Read on for how to do so and where you can view native species here at Longwood.

Bonsai was not generally known in the western world outside of Asia until the early twentieth century, but the Longwood Gardens Library recently acquired a nearly 300-year-old rare book that perhaps challenges that notion, offers an interesting connection to one of our bonsai collection’s four original trees, and adds to the intrigue of this amazing art form.

I had the extraordinary experience of walking the Gardens as they come alive at evening … here I share with you all I saw—and photographed—and all there is for you to see during our spring evenings.

Considering the vastness of our collection, our operations, and our acreage, it might be surprising to learn that a dedicated team of just three full-time woody nursery horticulturists manages our seven-acre woody nursery, supporting all our seasonal and permanent woody plants.

Adjacent to the new Bonsai Courtyard, this three-story building houses horticulture staff workspaces, boiler operations, and, now, our Bonsai Workshop. Follow along we take a behind-the-scenes look at this storied space and its integral role at Longwood.

Starting this season, we have replaced the East Conservatory’s lawn along the Oval Basin with a permanent collection of vibrant, tropical plantings designed to pull guests into the story and narrative of the garden

By working with nature and never against it—and to adapt to the needs of its Mediterranean-inspired plant palette—we built our West Conservatory with energy-efficiency and sustainability at top of mind.

. It’s our very first winter with the new West Conservatory, meaning it’s your very first chance to witness this architectural showstopper begin its peak flowering season.

This month in the Peirce-du Pont House Conservatory, the beauty of bonsai is on full display—as is the beauty of learning and collaboration.

Our remarkable Garden Railway has delighted guests of all ages for 24 years now … and how this multi-level world in miniature all comes together is no small feat.