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It's LONGWOOD GARDENS week at the GPOD!

comments (3) April 26th, 2010 in blogs

Michelle Gervais, Associate Editor

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It's Longwood Gardens week at the GPOD! For the next five days, we'll celebrate this fabulous public garden in pictures. Longwood, located in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, is a long-time FG staff favorite, an infinite source of inspiration, gardening know-how, and of course, great photos. Day 1:

The Italian Water Garden at Longwood Gardens was constructed 1925-27 and inspired by the Villa Gamberaia near Florence, Italy. When designing the garden, Longwood founder Pierre S. du Pont took into account visual foreshortening by making the farther pair of rectangular pools 14 feet longer than the nearer pair, ensuring all pools looked proportionally equal when viewed from the observation terrace.

Welcome to the Fine Gardening Garden Photo of the Day blog! Every weekday we post a new photo of a great garden, a spectacular plant, a stunning plant combination, or any number of other subjects. Think of it as your morning jolt of green.

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Longwood Gardens, Day 2: The Topiary Garden

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arboretum writes: perfect photo, michelle, showing the symmetry and peacefulness of the spot. Please please please include a photo of the Eye of Water in one of your other photos this week!!Thanks much
mindy
www.cottonarboretum.com/ Posted: 12:21 pm on April 26th

ArtofGardening_org writes: Oh, and the other cool thing about this Water Garden was a staircase that was designed to be a waterfall. DuPont would line up his nieces & nephews & visitors to have a photo taken on the staircase and then have the water turned on, soaking everyone. The kind of mean uncle I aspire to be! Posted: 10:39 am on April 26th

ArtofGardening_org writes: I was just there last week! I even put up a post this morning about our trip to Longwood Gardens:
http://artofgardeningbuffalo.blogspot.com/2010/04/pennsylvania-longwood-gardens.html Posted: 10:37 am on April 26th

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Welcome to the Fine Gardening GARDEN PHOTO OF THE DAY blog!

Every weekday we post a new photo of a great garden, a spectacular plant, a stunning plant combination, or any number of other subjects. Think of it as your morning jolt of green.

Sign up to get new posts delivered to your inbox each morning so you'll always remember to take a look, or subscribe to our RSS feed. We look forward to sharing our garden travels with you.

If you think you have a photo that we should share on the Garden Photo of the day, email us. Send hi-res images to mgervais@taunton.com with GPOD in the subject line. We'll only respond if we plan to use your photo.