full bloom? Some of the most beautiful gardens in the country are located along the Eastern corridor. You’ll find everything from acres and acres of lavish floral layouts to unique botani- cal wonders.
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Longwood Gardens near Kennett Square, Pennsylvania is one of the world’s great horticultural displays with 1,077 acres of dazzling gardens, woodlands,meadows, fountains and an almost 5-acre conservatory. This summer you won’t want to miss Nightscape: A Light & Sound Experience, running from July 1 through the end of October. As you journey through the evening Experience you’ll encounter moving imagery and light choreographed to music, all brought to life by the natural canvas of Longwood’s plants, leaves, trees, and lakes.
ho doesn’t love walking through a field of flowers especially during spring and summer when they are in
The innovative display showcases never-before-seen views of Longwood at night, everything fromabstract reflections off the lake to projected rotating sculptures. This unique Experi- ence includes the Rose Arbor, Large Lake, Flower Garden Walk, Topiary Garden, and the grand Conservatory.
You’ll find more than 50 acres of spectacular gardens at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond, Virginia. Open year- round, Lewis Ginter has more than a dozen themed gardens that include a Healing Garden, Sunken Garden, Asian Valley, Rose Garden, a wetland garden, a Victorian garden and a Children’s Garden, complete with wheelchair-accessible Tree House and water and sand play areas. Lewis Ginter’s classical domed Conservatory is the only one of its kind in the mid- Atlantic. The Conservatory houses exotic and unusual plants from around the world and offers ever-changing displays.
You can spend a day wandering through the 96 acres of spe- cialty gardens at The New Jersey State Botanical Garden at Skylands, a year-round place of beauty. You’ll find everything from formal gardens to unusual plants from around the world. Late spring heralds a charming display of Japanese primroses in theWildflower Garden. Or visit in June when the sweet fragrance of magnolias and honeysuckles fill the air.
The next time your journeys take you to Maryland, be sure to check out the award-winning, five-acre garden at Helen Avalynne Tawes Garden in Annapolis where you’ll find geo- graphic features from across the state or for a different selec- tion head to Howard Peter Rawlings Conservatory and Botanical Gardens of Baltimore with over an acre of flower gardens and three display houses with everything fromcactus to water features.
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