Longwood, southeastern PA
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- Subject: Longwood, southeastern PA
- From: C* P*
- Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 13:19:44 EDT
In a message dated 7/25/99 9:03:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
genebush@OTHERSIDE.COM writes:
<< Longwood Gardens has been on my list to go see for some years now.
Don't
know why I have not managed to make the trip. The Perennial Plant Assoc. has
held some of their meetings there, I have friends who go a couple of times
each year. They always have something going on of interest there. I have yet
to hear anything but rave reviews from gardeners who have been there.
Have you visited Longwood? >>
Go to Longwood Gene and spend a few days. Southeastern Pennsylvania has more
public gardens than anywhere in the country. Swarthmore and the U. of PA
both have botanic gardens. Just a bit over the border in Delaware are two
more. Give me a few days and I will e-mail addresses for you to get the
nursery lists and garden brochures provided by the colleges in the area. If
you stay in the Lancaster area you can eat at the Mennonite places and gain
100 pounds. Choose the time of year you would enjoy what is in bloom. Three
times each summer there is a huge antique/flea market weekend near Lancaster
so you can fill every minute. Amish farms sell produce along the road in
September. They sell a squash locally called a "neck pumpkin". One will last
you for a month. We bought one one year on the premise that the largest
would be the most interesting. It took up most of the back seat. My
husband, not a gardener, loves this trip.
If you do book a trip also ask the Alpine List for suggestions, it seems they
know nearly everything.
Gene and Bobbi, we also needed rain. Then the heavens opened and we got
five inches a few weeks ago with trees down. On AOL the weather map is all
red, differing only in shades of red (heat). Hottest July I can remember.
Claire Peplowski
East Nassau, NY
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