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m_shell and I checked out Longwood Gardens, a giant landscaped garden built by Pierre Du Pont. He may have been the father of modern corporations, but he was a conservationist about trees. They have deciduous conifers, and a female ginkgo*, and 150 foot male ginkgos, and a carillon tower, and a fifty foot waterfall, and Italian Water Gardens, and a topiary garden, and fountains choreographed to Souza, and all sorts of neat stuff. This time of year is their Chrysanthemum Festival, which features 20,000 chrysanthemums in a greenhouse, trained into spirals, and balls, and lamps, and curtains, and bonsai, and borders, and all sorts of stuff. One of the curtains is 150 sq ft of chrysanthemums. It's incredible. We're thinking of getting frequent visitor passes.
*Note for non-gardeners: female ginkgos produce fruit which most people think smells foul, like something rotting. Or some people say it smells like rancid parmesan. Thus, it is very rare to find female ginkgos. Anywhere.
Entryway into the Chrysanthemum Festival. The hanging globes are chrysanthemum lamps, the yellow flowers around the pillars are trained into stars, and the red against the far wall is chrysanthemum curtains. You can see some of the reflecting pool below the lamps.
To see any of the pictures larger, just click on them. The larger picture will open in a new window. If I did the html right.
A chrysanthemum ball against the background of the conservatory. I think it looks a little like an English Garden. Except with trained chrysanthemums.
A chrysanthemum spiral. It looks like a faked image, but that's really a chrysanthemum trained into a spiral and made to bloom all at once. There's a piece of metal up the middle for it to hold on to at the top, and to keep it upright, and that's all.
Two chrysanthemum borders. I think the second one has some really nice color contrast.
and
Three different chrysanthemums in pots. These are trained chrysanthemums as well. Trained both into globes, and into blooming all at once. These were in a side walkway of the conservatory, and from the way they're (not) displayed I think they might be backup-globes in case they need to replace anything in any of the main gardens.
m_shell and I checked out Longwood Gardens, a giant landscaped garden built by Pierre Du Pont. He may have been the father of modern corporations, but he was a conservationist about trees. They have deciduous conifers, and a female ginkgo*, and 150 foot male ginkgos, and a carillon tower, and a fifty foot waterfall, and Italian Water Gardens, and a topiary garden, and fountains choreographed to Souza, and all sorts of neat stuff. This time of year is their Chrysanthemum Festival, which features 20,000 chrysanthemums in a greenhouse, trained into spirals, and balls, and lamps, and curtains, and bonsai, and borders, and all sorts of stuff. One of the curtains is 150 sq ft of chrysanthemums. It's incredible. We're thinking of getting frequent visitor passes.*Note for non-gardeners: female ginkgos produce fruit which most people think smells foul, like something rotting. Or some people say it smells like rancid parmesan. Thus, it is very rare to find female ginkgos. Anywhere.
Entryway into the Chrysanthemum Festival. The hanging globes are chrysanthemum lamps, the yellow flowers around the pillars are trained into stars, and the red against the far wall is chrysanthemum curtains. You can see some of the reflecting pool below the lamps.
To see any of the pictures larger, just click on them. The larger picture will open in a new window. If I did the html right.
A chrysanthemum ball against the background of the conservatory. I think it looks a little like an English Garden. Except with trained chrysanthemums.
A chrysanthemum spiral. It looks like a faked image, but that's really a chrysanthemum trained into a spiral and made to bloom all at once. There's a piece of metal up the middle for it to hold on to at the top, and to keep it upright, and that's all.
Two chrysanthemum borders. I think the second one has some really nice color contrast.
and
Three different chrysanthemums in pots. These are trained chrysanthemums as well. Trained both into globes, and into blooming all at once. These were in a side walkway of the conservatory, and from the way they're (not) displayed I think they might be backup-globes in case they need to replace anything in any of the main gardens.
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