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Chrysanthemum Festival

Longwood Gardens

Mon, Oct 31, 2011 - Sun Nov 20, 2011, 9am - 5pm

Tickets: 18 Adults, 15 Seniors, 8 Students

During the Chrysanthemum Festival, October 29–November 20, 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. New this year: Longwood Gardens be featuring a unique multi-grafted mum where over 100 different flower varieties are grafted to one plant! Topiary forms, including butterflies, spirals and our largest thousand bloom chrysanthemum ever, with 991 blooms, adorn the Conservatory. Find out more about Longwood's largest-ever thousand bloom chrysanthemum.


See a video about the making of Longwood's 2009 thousand bloom chrysanthemum on Youtube.


Location:

Longwood Gardens
1001 Longwood Road
Kennett Square, PA 19348

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