This is the second post showing photos of the Silver Garden, an arid landscape of blues and silver, mainly cactus and succulents, at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
Longwood Silver Garden 3
Longwood Silver Garden 4
Longwood Silver Garden 5
Longwood Silver Garden – farmland?
Longwood Silver Garden – 9
Longwood Silver Garden – more farmland?
Longwood Silver Garden –miniature landscape
Longwood Silver Garden – cactus forest
Longwood Gardens was originally a working farm owned by the Pierce family (having purchased the land from William Penn in 1700). The Pierces started a tree collection, which they passed along to Pierre S. du Pont when he bought the property in 1906 to save it from development. Du Pont built the estate into a garden paradise, adding formal gardens, fountains, water features, an outdoor theater, a huge pipe organ and an extravagant conservatory. The Silver Garden was a remodeling of an existing conservatory in 1989 that shaded the conservatory further inside too much. We will continue to show you around the conservatories in further posts.
Just wanted to let you know how much I’m enjoying your photos of Longwood’s silver garden, the best I’ve seen. I attended a lecture recently by Isabelle Greene, the landscape architect who designed this silver garden. I would love to include some of your wonderful photos for a short blog piece on Ms. Greene, so I wanted to check your policy on using these photos.