Autumn’s Colors at Longwood Gardens

Dates
September 5 – November 20, 2011

Overview

Longwood Gardens celebrates the harvest season with Autumn’s Colors, a festive showcase of fall colors, giant pumpkins, unusual gourds and live concerts.

Children can venture through the Pumpkin Playground, discovering more than 100 different types of gourds and squash with bizarre shapes, unusual colors and evocative names like Turk’s Turban, Warted Hubbard, Queensland Blue, Amish Pie and more are featured in unique displays throughout the gardens.

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

Chrysanthemum Festival

From October 29 – November 20, more than 20,000 blooming chrysanthemums take over Longwood’s four-acre conservatory. Longwood’s experts have trained these fall favorites, creating cascades of color drape the Conservatory walls like flowery waterfalls.

The centerpiece of the festival is Longwood’s coveted Thousand Bloom chrysanthemum, the largest of its kind in North America.

You can see Longwood’s famous blooming Chrysanthemums flourish in the palatial Conservatory.

Come Prepared

Wear comfortable shoes and leave yourself ample time to take in as much of Longwoods’ 300 acres as possible.

Outsider Tip

Longwood Gardens hosts a series of spectacular performances featuring classical, organ music, jazz and more.

Don’t miss feature concerts by Longwood’s favorite carillonneurs in the historic 62-bell carillon. Stretch out on the lawn to enjoy the afternoon concert, then tour the Chimes Tower and meet the Carillonneur following the performance!

Visit Longwood Gardens a schedule of performances.