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As we all continue to work together to limit the spread of COVID-19, we have made the difficult decision to temporarily suspend all on-site programs, including Scout programs. We continue to offer a library of videos, plant quizzes, online exhibitions, recorded concerts, and activities for all ages.

Let’s Get Cooking

Join our Executive Chef Will Brown as he shares one of his favorite recipes from 1906 that you can easily recreate at home.

Puzzle Away

Engage your brain with these fun virtual Longwood puzzles. Select as many (or as few) pieces you’d like for a challenging to a relaxing experience.

Mystery Plant Activity

One of Longwood’s carnivorous plants has gone missing! Who did it? How did they do it? We need your help in this curious case of the missing plant!

Read a Good Plant Book

Join our Community Read and dive into the wacky, weird, and wild world of plants with Semiosis by Sue Burke, Weird Plants by Chris Thorogood, and The Enormous Potato by Aubrey Davis.

The Weird, The Wild, and The Wonderful

Travel the globe with plant hunter and illustrator Chris Thorogood to discover nature’s most unusual and amazing plants in this presentation designed especially for grades 3-6.

A Plant’s Life

Explore the life cycle of a plant from seed to flower. Go behind-the-scenes and discover how our horticulturists prepare our spectacular displays in this fun online class for grades 3–8.

Indoor Family #PlantHunt

Plants are not just outdoors—they are everywhere! Go on this fun hunt to find objects made from plants all around your house.

Celebrate Trees

Learn some fun facts about trees, planting and caring for them, and meet some of our smallest trees in this fun virtual field trip for kids grades 3–8.

Go On a Virtual Field Trip

Discover the fascinating world of carnivorous plants in this online field trip, designed for grades 3–8.

Seed Your Future

Learn more about careers in horticulture through the Seed Your Future initiative.

Recipes

Pierre S. and Alice du Pont loved to entertain in the Gardens. Since we entertain you in our Gardens, why not head into your own kitchen and recreate a recipe from the du Pont family cookbook.