PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square is about to embark on its most extensive – and expensive – project ever: a $90 million restoration of the five-acre Main Fountain Garden, where shows featuring shooting water, and sometimes music, lights, and fireworks, have delighted visitors since 1955…
When it reopens in the spring of 2017, visitors may be surprised to note that from a distance, the overhauled garden will still look like its classic self. Longwood historian Colvin Randall – like du Pont a fountain aficionado – describes that as “a combination of French grandeur and Italianate ornamentation, surrounded by a green English landscape.”
But every element of the garden will have been restored, updated, replaced, or expanded upon… (more)
