Early spring bulbs in full bloom at Longwood Gardens.
EAST MARLBOROUGH – Although winter looks to make a final stand this weekend, already the signs of spring are literally poking through the ground. But at Longwood Garden, fully blooming flowers are already on display.
The early signs of spring are more beautiful than ever at Longwood Gardens with the addition of 500,000 geophyte bulbs now in full bloom.
The geophytes, which were planted in October, join the hundreds of thousands of other early bulbs that have naturalized over the years throughout Longwood’s landscape. Guests can see colorful sweeps of geophytes near the Peirce-du Pont House, Peirce’s Park and Oak and Conifer Knoll, in addition to blankets of color on the lawns near the Flower Garden Walk, the Birdhouse Tree House, Eye of Water, and Oak Knoll.
Geophytes are non-woody flowering plants, and may be classified as bulbs, corms, tubers, rhizomes, and tuberous roots. Geophytes that naturalize will adapt to a site and reproduce as they would in their native habitat. Longwood gardeners have been naturalizing many small geophytes, creating large sweeps of color to brighten the late winter and early spring garden.
The Geophytes are expected to be in bloom through late March.
