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Filmed over four years, narrated by Emmy Award-winning actress Sheryl Lee Ralph (Abbott Elementary), and directed by Emmy Award-winning documentary storyteller Glenn Holsten of Philadelphia, this sweeping film serves as a cinematic journey and behind-the-scenes look at the transformation of 17 acres within one of the world’s great cultural landscapes.

From our irrigation systems and support of healthy waterways to our stormwater management practices and continuing approach to sustainability with Longwood Reimagined, water—and the responsible conservation of water—is vital at Longwood.

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.

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.

Read on to gather some tailored, top-notch picks from a variety of Longwood staff for your summer reading list—or your year-round to-be-read list.

Central to the story of making our fountains dance is Longwood’s P.S. du Pont Fellow and very first fountain choreographer Colvin Randall, who has been designing fountain performances for an incredible 45 years.

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.

Ten years ago, we opened the gates to an expanded garden—and one that’s markedly different from every other garden at Longwood.

Container gardening has many benefits—and can lead to beautiful displays, as you can enjoy right now in our Rose Arbor, outside of the Peirce-du Pont House, and outside of The Café.

Follow along as I share the design of this summer’s Square Fountain Garden, the beauty you can see here, and how the plants chosen for the garden support pollinators, formalize the informal, and evolve throughout the season.

From work we do here in our Gardens to manage such threats, to our support of related research led a multidisciplinary team from nine universities and the US Department of Agriculture to deepen understanding of such diseases—we are working to ensure the longevity of this iconic plant in our Gardens and beyond.

Featuring five unique garden spaces—including the redesigned Ornamental Kitchen Garden—the Idea Garden echoes some of the classical elements of the Main Fountain Garden and blends the formal with the less formal, and notably the agrarian.

Our first hybrid Cynorkis—Cynorkis Longwood Pink Gem—is now on view for the first time in our Orchid House for the next week, and ready to delight.

This year, as part of the Professional Horticulture Program, our nine students have been asked to design, create and maintain three garden designs based on the scheme of change and adaptation.

Found in such spaces as the Visitor Center, by the Guest Services desk in the Main Conservatory, or in the conservatory of the Peirce-du Pont House, our arrangements take their cues from the seasons and are styled in natural ways to highlight their connections to the Gardens.