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Giving Our Azalea Bonsai a New Home
I’m excited to share that our azalea bonsai has reawakened, and in early March, just after shaking off the last yawns of its dormancy period, has found itself in a new home, thanks to the next step of the bonsai training process: repotting.
How to Start a Cut Flower Garden at Home
By creating a cut flower garden at home you can have the luxury of creating bouquets to take inside … and to enjoy them even when you’re not strolling through the garden.
Calculating Beauty: Our Main Fountain Garden Lindens
Our trees—including the 168 linden trees in our Main Fountain Garden’s south, east, and west allées —are among the most exceptional parts of Longwood’s past, present, and future.
A Beautiful Distraction
After patients expressed a desire to view local scenes during treatment, ChristianaCare hired NAPCO Video of Philadelphia to capture footage at Longwood Gardens to show to patients via VR while receiving chemotherapy.
A Community Read Conversation with Chris Thorogood
Chris Thorogood invites you to engage with plants that have long captured his imagination, inspired his art, and shaped his career.
A Community Read Conversation with Sue Burke
Now in its seventh year, a rousing discussion has always been a defining feature of our Community Read. But this year marks a few firsts, including our first science fiction selection by debut novelist Sue Burke.
The Clear Beauty of the Late Winter Landscape
Wintertime allows the clear details of the garden to come forward and highlights the harmony that a garden builds with its surrounding landscape.
The Winter Meadow Garden: Full of Life
In the Meadow Garden this time of year, life is all around when you look for its clues—and careful observation yields beautiful results.
Starting Fresh: Our Indoor Children’s Garden
The process of replanting, replacing the soil, and refreshing the Indoor Children’s Garden involves many staff from our Horticulture and Facilities departments. Our plumbers, electricians, masons, and painters work tirelessly to make sure all is in perfect, and beautiful, working order.
Lights, Camera, Learning
For more than five years, Longwood Gardens has offered fun, interactive, free virtual programming to public and private schools around the world via our Virtual Field Trip program, improving science knowledge and introducing 10,000 students per year to the exciting possibilities of a career in horticulture.
Indoor Plants for Every Home
It doesn’t matter if you live in an apartment, cottage, or even a yurt … there’s an indoor plant that can easily match your lifestyle.
Orchid Extravaganza: “Big Lip” is Big News
We’re excited to showcase a beautiful representation of the new and exciting Phalaenopsis “big lip” breeding lines, displayed for the first time here at Longwood.
Crafting an Orchid Orb, Floating on Air
Taking the opportunity to experience firsthand (and hands-on) how that magic happens, and to see all the precise steps involved in the process of creating an orchid orb, is something I will never forget.
Climate Change and Our Trees
Trees are an exceptionally important part of Longwood Gardens’ heritage and our future … they are nothing less than the backbone of our Gardens. When considering our tree management efforts in the context of climate change modeling, we not only consider the future, but also the present.
Inspiring a Love of Nature
Full Circle
Longwood Fellow Barbara Wheeler reflects on an educational journey that has spanned the globe.
Tremendous Tillandsia: How to Care for These Gems
From textural Tillandsia xerographica perched above the waterfall in our Cascade Garden, to tiny Tillandsia tectorum and Tillandsia ionatha tucked into wire and cup ornaments in our Silver Garden, Tillandsia are definitely having a Christmas moment.
Tunnel Vision
With its carefully thought-out design, the tunnel provides an immersive experience, encircling those who explore it in an expanse of 7,000 gold and warm white lights.
Health and the Garden: Fellows Leadership Salon
The public garden community readily encourages their communities to engage with plants and the green spaces around them … the desire for this engagement is ever-present in our work.
Shapes that Speak Volumes
For this year’s Christmas display, we drew inspiration from the unique figures found in nature to the iconic contours for which Longwood is known.