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EAST MARLBOROUGH â Longwood Gardens has announced a $250 million expansion project that will include a new 32,000-square-foot glasshouse West Conservatory, a 3,800-square-foot, custom-built cascade garden, a new bonsai courtyard, a waterlily court, a new public restaurant and private event space, a new administration building, and a transformation of its century-old Orchard House. It s a massive project, said Paul Redman, CEO of Longwood Gardens. It s our most complicated project that we have ever embarked upon. It will be a new garden experience like no other.
Work on the project will begin this spring. The Main and East Conservatories will remain open throughout the year and planned events and performances will continue to be held, pending pandemic-era restrictions.
Longwood Gardens to expand and transform its renowned conservatory grounds
Interior View, West Conservatory Longwood Reimagined: A New Garden Experience. Courtesy of WEISS/MANFREDI with Reed Hilderbrand for Longwood Gardens.
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.-Longwood Gardens today unveiled plans for a sweeping yet deeply sensitive transformation of its core area of conservatory gardens, in the most ambitious revitalization in a century of Americas greatest center for horticultural display. Adding new plantings and buildings across 17 acres, Longwood Reimagined: A New Garden Experience will expand the public spaces of the renowned central grounds and connect them from east to west, offering a newly unified but continually varied journey from lush formal gardens to views over the open meadows of Pennsylvanias Brandywine Valley.