I spent this past weekend in Delaware and Pennsylvania. Despite a steady, cold rain, we saw several gardens. Most of Saturday was spent at Longwood Gardens. http://www.longwoodgardens.org/ Longwood is more than 1000 acres of gardens, AND has a 4.5 acre conservatory with more than 5,000 plants in it. It was simply unbelievable. I got so many ideas for my little garden space. The mums were spectacular. There is beautiful orchid room that was stunning. The leaves are beginning to turn in southern PA, but there were still many flowers blooming. Unfortunately it was just too cold and wet to be outside for long.
We also got to see the great pumpkin weigh-in. The winner was over 1400 lbs.
We visited Winterthur, but it was just too cold and wet to see much in the gardens. The museum, of course, is fabulous. And, we visited a small garden at an (unfortunately) now nearly abandoned house in Wilmington. The gardens are the Marian Coffin gardens, and are quite nice. The house, Gibralter, was once lovely, but is now boarded up and covered in vines.
All three of these are worth the trip.
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Oh my goodness you were in our neighborhood, sort of! I'm sorry you were up here during all our cold rain. We've got beautiful sunny skies now and the temperatures are higher. The last and only the second time I've been to Longwood Garden was in the spring of 2006. Again it was a rainy day, but we were meeting Robert's brother and his wife for the day there. It was chilly but probably not as chilly as last weekend. We did spend a lot of time in the conservatory but did walk around in the gardens and I got some great pictures, because everything was fresh and new and there were VERY few tourist out wandering around! I've not been to the other two you mentioned but have wanted to see the W one and have not heard of the other one. We'll have to make some plans now that Robert has retired. Love you, L.
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