Longwood Gardens Summer Visit

Longwood's Topiary Garden features more than 35 meticulously trained yew specimens, some shaped since the 1920s.

The Chimes Tower is anchored on a 50-foot waterfall and houses Longwood's 62-bell carillon, audible throughout the district.

This is Longwood's Ornamental Kitchen Garden, growing vegetables since 1927 and rotating over 200 crops each year.

The Exhibition Hall's sunken marble floor was designed for entertaining and shows inside Longwood's historic Main Greenhouse.

This Chinese elm is one of only four original bonsai still at Longwood from the 13 trees acquired from Yuji Yoshimura in 1959.

Pierre du Pont's first garden, the 600-foot Flower Garden Walk, was completed in 1907 and now holds over 100,000 flowers.

This door inside the Cascade Garden building is covered with various species of epiphytic Tillandsia (commonly known as air plants).

Pierre du Pont began building this Conservatory in 1921, adding an Orangery, Exhibition Hall, ballroom, and pipe organ room.

Modeled on Italy's Villa Gamberaia, the Main Fountain Garden uses limestone canals and basins to power 380 illuminated jets.

The Idea Garden's Carpinus hedge and rectangular beds echo formal design, creating a space devoted to the craft of gardening.

Longwood's Bonsai Courtyard displays Satsuki azalea bonsai each June, prized for their profusion of small, colorful blooms.

The West Conservatory's asymmetrical peaks rise from a reflecting pool, with interior gardens set amid canals and fountains.

Peonies here reflect Alice Belin du Pont's horticultural guidance, which shaped much of Flower Garden Walk's original planting.

The Hillside Garden showcases rare, four-season plantings on slopes leading up to Longwood's historic Chimes Tower.

During evening shows, Longwood's fountain system can send up to 1,719 individual jets of water into choreographed patterns.

Originally built to grow fruit and vegetables through winter, Longwood's Main Conservatory later became a display and event space.

Fruiting and flowering bonsai like these are trained to stay miniature while their blooms and fruit grow to natural size.

Longwood's Waterlily Court blooms with nearly 100 hardy and tropical water lily varieties from late spring through early fall.

Longwood's Rose Arbor has been planted with 'American Pillar' climbing roses since before 1920, predating the formal Rose Garden.