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02-06-2008, 05:32 PM
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| longwood gardens? anyone ever been to their thing? Orchid Extravaganza - Longwood Gardens any good? worth $3/gal gas and $14 to get in?
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02-06-2008, 06:24 PM
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| I've only seen a special on T.V. about Longwood Gardens a few years ago. It wasn't about the Orchid show, but it was incredible!! I would think that they would put on quite a show! Maybe someone who's actually been there, has more insight.
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02-06-2008, 06:57 PM
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| A orchid friend of my here in Rochester has gone there the past 2 years for the orchid fest and has nothing but great raves about it. I plan on hopefully going this year.
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02-06-2008, 09:26 PM
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| its an hour and thirty-six minute drive from me. To steep at todays gas rates. I'll wait. Parkside nursery has an orchid fest every year and they're only 30 minutes from me. And you dont have to pay to go. |
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02-06-2008, 09:53 PM
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| Its 2 hours from my house and I not only went last year but bought a family membership! They have a great sales tent with just about anything you could want, prices went from High to average but the quality was great. I will be there again this year. And also at Parkside. Joe
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02-07-2008, 02:05 AM
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| Anything at Longwood Gardens is spectacular!! It has one of the most beautiful conservatories in the east. The orchid show and sale is a must see. We travel from NY and are never disappointed.  |
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03-12-2008, 07:50 PM
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| We visited on a quiet January day...probably one of their quietest all year. I had not been since childhood when going to Longwood was one of my favorite memories...as my Dad used to sing the lead parts in their musicals. Even on a quiet gray day it did not dissappoint. We bought a family pass for the year and plan to make ourselves make the hour and 1/2 trip several times to see all the seasons. The conservatory was amazing even in Jan. and their was a room in it that had the walls covered in orchids! Hope to go to the orchid event...my daughter and i have been getting hooked on them! I took a lot of pictures in the orchid room that are in my sons camera...I'll try to figure out how to post some when he gets home for spring break this week... |
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03-12-2008, 10:35 PM
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03-13-2008, 08:30 PM
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| Longwood Gardens is still etched firmly in my mind and I haven't been there for over 30 years. As a teenager, I would go there with dates, lived in West Chester. There couldn't be a gas price too steep to enjoy the orchid fest there. Absolutely magnificent.... really. |
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03-29-2008, 04:37 PM
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 Longwood Orchid Event  Hi Orchid people! I just got in the house from Longwood's Orchid Event...only one word...Unbelieveable...had no idea that the entire conservatory would be inbloom and then dressed out with orchid displays and plantings extraordinare.The large tent is full of orchid venders and was very busy in the early afternoon. But here's the best tip...in case you can't go this weekend but maybe next. The event lasts only until tomorrow...but a few volunteers (they have the sweetest volunteers everywhere to help you) told me that next Sat. (beginning 9 am) they will be selling all of the hundreds (thousands???) of orchids that they purchased and planted everywhere in the conservatory for the show for relativley cheap! The lunch restaurant which is lovely will probably be much less busy than today as well. Good luck! |
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03-30-2008, 08:47 PM
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| I went to the event and it was great I will post some pic I took and the plants I got(some nice plants). The trick to this event if you want to buy plants is to get there by 9am and go directly to the sale tent only about a dozen people their so you can take your time looking around. By the afternoon it’s a mob and hard to walk around.
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03-31-2008, 04:10 PM
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| I also picked up one each of the following: 1 Masdevallias coccinea ' San Bar’s Red Flare' Huge plant with buds everywhere 2 Masdevallias discoidas 'Kimball's Kissing Cousin' new cross not reg yet orange flower with raspberry patches small plant 3 Den Frosty Dawn 'Wings of Gold' (Dawn Maree x Lime Frost) in Bud 4 Den Lemon Ice 'H&R' (cruentum x trigonopus) in bud 5 Den Mingle'e Sapphire 4 inch bastek in bloom nice plant 6 Den Peng Seng (tobaense x cruentum) mini 7 Den pseudoglomeratium x sibling mini
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