Chrysanthemum Festival Starts at Longwood Gardens

During the Chrysanthemum Festival, October 19 through November 22, more than 20,000 colorful, blooming chrysanthemums flourish in the palatial Conservatory. Longwood’s experts have trained these fall favorites into unique forms including towering single-stemmed beauties and thousand-bloomers.

The show reaches its peak bloom during the first three weeks on November. This year, a cloud of topiary bees above the indoor lawns are poised to pollinate the beds of flowers beneath. Topairy forms, including butterflies, spirals and our largest thousand-bloom chrysanthemum ever, with over 700 blooms, adorn the Conservatory.

Longwood’s landscapes glow with shades of yellow, orange, purple, and red trees. Golden honey-locusts and ginkgos, scarlet sweet-gums and sourwoods, and ruby red oaks add bursts of color.

More than 100 different types of gourds and squash with bizarre shapes, unusual colors and evocative names like ‘Orange Smoothie’, ‘Jumbo Pink Banana’, ‘Blue Magic’, ‘Cotton Candy’ and more are featured in unique displays throughout the gardens, from October 3 to 31. Our monstrously large pumpkins are back on display October 2–28.

For more information visit: http://www.longwoodgardens.org