Recently listed in Time Out as the world’s most beautiful botanic display, Longwood Gardens, in Pennsylvania’s Brandywine Valley, might be thought of as a thousand-acre gallery of gardens. An international roster of designers has shaped its evolution, and next Friday brings the unveiling of another transformation: Longwood Reimagined, a magnificent, 17-acre addition to its collection of gardens and conservatories. The cost: $250 million.
For well over 200 years, these gently rolling hills and meadows have continuously been home to horticultural display. What began here as an 18th-century hobbyist’s collection of native and exotic trees grew to be one of the continent’s finest arboretums and a pioneer public garden by 1850.
