What’s in Bloom

A flower with blue and orange leaves

Featured Bloom

Blue-poppy

Meconopsis ′Lingholm′

Longwood Gardens forces blue-poppies to flower every year in March. This cultivar, 'Lingholm', produces large flowers that are four inches in diameter on average. Blue-poppies, native to the high elevations of the Himalayan Mountains, are infrequently cultivated outside their native habitat. Given the right conditions, however, they can thrive in gardens located in the northern regions of North America and Europe.

See what’s in bloom … and enjoy the beauty of our Gardens.

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  • Tall, spikes of small blue flowers facing all directions

    Pride-of-Madeira

    Echium candicans ′Select Blue′

    Native to Madeira, a group of islands southwest of Portugal in the Atlantic Ocean, this tender subshrub is one of the stars of our early spring Conservatory display.  Grown from cuttings, it takes a little more than a year to get a new cutting to the size of the plant you see on display.

  • 5 petaled light purple flowers

    Madeira Cranesbill

    Geranium maderense

    Endemic to the island of Madeira, this cranesbill, the largest of the true geraniums, is critically endangered in the wild. Growing to 4 feet tall and wide, this plant produces numerous rosettes of small flowers which are held above the dissected foliage.


     

  • Star Magnolia

    Magnolia stellata ′Royal Star′

    'Royal Star' is a selection of the deciduous, early blooming Japanese native, star magnolia.  The fragrant, double white flowers emerge before the foliage in late March, early April.  This small tree grows best in full sun in hardiness zones 4 and above.

  • Small, light pink star shaped flowers and grass-like foliage

    Twinleaf Squill

    Scilla bifolia 'Rosea'

    This small, early spring bulb can be found dotting Oak Knoll, usually around the time Crocus tommasinianus begin to fade. Each Scilla bifolia ‘Rosea’ bulb produces two leaves which sit below a one-sided spike of pale-pink, star-shaped flowers and a 2-4 inch plant.

  • Longwood Hybrid Cineraria

    Pericallis × hybrida

    Cineraria is an annual plant that Longwood has used in our late winter/early spring displays since the Conservatory opened in 1921.   We maintain our own seed supply of this wonderful blue strain by hybridizing stock plants each year.

     

  • A tree with thinkd long leaves

    Weeping Higan Cherry

    Prunus subhirtella ′Pendula′
  • A plant with green and purple leaves

    Common Hyacinth

    Hyacinthus orientalis 'Miss Saigon'
  • Striped-squill

    Puschkinia scilloides
  • A short plant with green and purple leaves

    Triumph Tulip

    Tulipa 'Purple Flag'
  • Low to the ground, small white flowers with yellow centers

    Bloodroot

    Sanguinaria canadensis
  • Fumewort

    Corydalis solida ′Purple Bird′
  • Glory-of-the-snow

    Chionodoxa luciliae ′Alba′
  • An orchid plant with white, purple and leaves

    Orchid

    x Aliceara Peggy Ruth Carpenter 'Morning Joy'
  • Light yellow flowers with dark orange center petals

    Large-cupped Daffodil

    Narcissus 'Fortissimo'
  • Bittercress

    Cardamine quinquefolia
  • Hybrid Foxglove

    Digitalis × valinii ′DG 09/4′ Digiplexis Illumination Flame®
  • Chinese Winter-hazel

    Corylopsis sinensis
  • Japanese Pieris

    Pieris japonica
  • A small plant with pink and green leaves

    Rosemary

    Salvia rosmarinus 
  • Stachyurus

    Stachyurus praecox
  • A flower with green and cream white leaves

    Clivia

    Clivia miniata 'Sir John Thouron' 
  • A plant with dark green and light green leaves

    Myrtle Spurge

    Euphorbia myrsinites 
  • Rue-anemone

    Thalictrum thalictroides
  • Spikes of small yellow flowers and fern-like foliage

    Chinese Corydalis

    Corydalis cheilanthifolia
  • Winter Red-hot-poker

    Veltheimia bracteata
  • A hanging plant with blue, purple and green leaves

    Bigleaf Hydrangea

    Hydrangea macrophylla 'H213906' Jip Blue
  • A flower with blue and orange leaves

    Blue-poppy

    Meconopsis ′Lingholm′

    Longwood Gardens forces blue-poppies to flower every year in March. This cultivar, 'Lingholm', produces large flowers that are four inches in diameter on average. Blue-poppies, native to the high elevations of the Himalayan Mountains, are infrequently cultivated outside their native habitat. Given the right conditions, however, they can thrive in gardens located in the northern regions of North America and Europe.