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We invite you to learn more as the leading voices in landscape architecture, ecology, and cultural heritage gather at Longwood, led by Designing Change curator Anita Berrizbeitia, who served as an advisor during the preservation process of Longwood’s Cascade Garden, designed by the famous Brazilian landscape architect and artist Roberto Burle Marx.

Many moving parts came into play when planning for and opening our new gardens, glasshouses, and landscapes. One such component was the multi-faceted (and multi-year) approach to creating the hundreds of plant display labels for our new spaces.

We’re thrilled to welcome you to an unparalleled new chapter in our legacy—a 17-acre expansion and reimagination of our grounds, serving as the most ambitious undertaking in our history. With the addition of these 17 acres of new gardens, new landscapes, and new buildings are many more opportunities for holiday magic.

To move the Cascade Garden into its new, free-standing, custom-built glasshouse required us to relocate, reconstruct, and preserve this prized garden in a way no other institution has done before—stone by stone and plant by plant.

We are the steward of one of the most important collections of gardens and glasshouses, and one perfect example of that commitment lies in the 55 plants we’ve moved from their previous West Conservatory locations to new permanent homes in our Main and East Conservatory display spaces.

Behind every great garden is a great gardener telling a story through his or her design.

We are thrilled to announce our newest—and most ambitious—change. Longwood Reimagined: A New Garden Experience is the largest expansion, reimagination, and preservation of our Conservatory and surrounding landscape in Longwood’s modern history.