Grand Christmases

Longwood Gardens puts on the biggest Christmas show on the east coast, that I know of.  Here are some of the images from a few years ago, inside the conservatory.

Countdown to Christmas - Entering Longwood's Christmas Conservatory

At Christmas, Longwood Garden announces the celebration to come at the entrance to the Conservatory with its Winterberry branches.  Winterberry bushes are everywhere outside and in.  They are intensely red with their berries on bare branches.  Once inside, the showstopper display stops people right there.  It's a brilliant design - there's so much to take in - the foreground has the splashing pool with gardens around it.  Then in the middle ground, the leading line of the watercourse takes one's eye far out to the background display.   A promise of lots more to come.   The Conservatory always has a Romantic sensibility.  For Christmas, with its exuberant colour scheme, it is maintained through a limited colour palate.  Here we see underneath, white carnations as decorations in the trees, red amaryllis beneath the trees, and then red winterberries along the watercourse.  It resounds with elegance.