A Longwood Christmas Evening Stroll
Today I am leading you on an evening stroll through the beautiful grounds and conservatory of Longwood Gardens at Christmas time. While it is breathtaking during the day, the lights and reflections transport you to a magical place at nightfall.
So, pour a cup of tea and get comfy, I’ll do the walking!
We will start off just at dusk and wind our way around the outdoor light displays. Enormous trees have been carefully wrapped in a multitude of tiny lights by crews in cherry pickers. There is music and color, fountains and excited voices of awe.
Removing our wraps, we’ll next enter the conservatory. Christmas trees light your way and the smell of flowers permeates the air. Water trickling in the many fountains follows us as we explore rooms filled with themed trees as well as traditional and unusual decorations for the season.
Afterwards, we’ll take the path back and head homeward filled with visions of a Longwood Christmas.
Pathways bordered in decorative lights come alive as night falls.
Longwood Christmas
The Bird Tree is full of edibles for the birds to feast from!
Birch Birdbath
Reflected lights on the water.
Longwood Christmas
Christmas Wreath
Packages under the tree in the Pierce DuPont House.
Colorful lighted trees create living sculptures in the landscape.
Longwood Christmas
Enormous trees are strung in thousands of tiny lights!
Lights reflected in the water lend a magical feel to the night!
Lighted trees at Longwood
Cherrypickers are used to wrap many outdoor trees in lights!
Outdoor Tree Lights
Orchid Wreath
Hundreds of ornaments are crafted by school children for the Childrens’ Trees
Longwood Gardens Christmas
Vintage ornaments and themed trees
Holiday Sconces
Blue Christmas Tree
Icicle Fountain
Christmas trees decorated with Poinsettia “ornaments”
Poinsettias reflected in glass ornaments
Dried Flowers and evergreens dress the mantle
Tea and Cookies
Branch Chandelier
Amaryllis and Lights
Christmas Succulents
Mediterranean Garden Aglow
Popsicle sticks and glitter make a tree glow!
Clay Owl Ornament on the Childrens’ Tree
A Snowman Ornament on one of the Childrens’ Trees
Greenhouse Christmas Tree
Christmas Roses
Tropical Icicles
Succulent Christmas Wreath
Thousands of Poinsettias are on display in red, pink, white and every variation!
Beautiful reflections at A Longwood Christmas
The photos are absolutely stunning Barb! I love the way you do your blogs. I have a lot to learn. Thanks so much for sharing. It is my “happy place”.
<3 Nancy
Longwood Gardens is a great joy to me, too, Nancy! Not only do I love its gardens inside and out, it is also the place I go to paint! <3
Wow, it’s all just beautiful! Love the birdbath with the succulents. Stunning!
I loved that too, Cecilia! The blue lights just transformed it!
Beautiful! We have relatives that live near the gardens. Perhaps, some day we will visit!
Time to go visit those relatives, Helen! :)
Every photo I saw, I thought “I’ll have to tell her – that’s my favorite!” By the time I got to the bottom, it was absolutely impossible for me to choose. I just really want to get there some day, it’s so lovely and really feeds the soul. xo
It really does, Lorraine! You and Ed should go!
Absolutely beautiful photos, Barb. We are so lucky to have Longwood in our backyard. Missed painting with you there on Monday afternoons this fall. I hope you’ll be there this winter or spring.
We are so lucky, Betsy! Yes, I’ll be there all day again! Can’t wait!
My favorite is the outdoor edible tree decorated for the birds – I am adding that to my list of things to do next year for my beloved backyard birds! I have never really thought of things to put on there other than strung popcorn but it looks like they had lots of things on theirs! Merry Christmas ~ Kari
Yes, Kari! There were little buckets of seeds as well as clumps of dried flower and grass seed heads. It was so naturally beautiful. Longwood employees replenish it as the birds eat the goodies!
Thanks for your wonderful blog. I recently moved to South Carolina and your pictures make me wistful for beautiful PA. This is my first “Longwoodless” Christmas in many years; your photos helped.
I’m so happy I could bring Longwood to you, Pam! It is definitely in my top 5 “Happy Places” !
Not sure where Fairfield is but based on your photos…it looks like a magical place and would be worth the trop. Thank you!
We are in Delaware but the pictures in the posting are of Longwood Gardens, nearby in Pennsylvania!I wish I had all that in my own garden! :)