The final result includes 19 projectors on the nine sites. Rivera and his 36-member team have been coming to Longwood for the last 18 months mapping out the project and testing the lights. They gave him no specific instructions, preferring to allow him to interpret the site. The gardens asked Klip Collective Director Ricardo Rivera to take a look at Longwood two years ago and suggest something after seeing a Klip work with the Philadelphia Horticulture Society, which produces the Philadelphia Flower Show, and an installation in the Bartram Gardens meadow in Philly. And if you love A Longwood Christmas, when many trees are adorned with Christmas lights, this multiplies that experience to the nth degree. If you enjoyed the gardens’ 2012 “Light” exhibit with Bruce Munro, which featured (by comparison) a few sites lit up with staked spheres, this will blow you away. In the conservatory’s Silver Garden, the dry still landscape populated by succulent plants becomes a zoo of moving light that at one point is waves flowing across giant coiled snakes and the next fantastical geometrical patterns. The Flower Garden Walk, home to a rainbow of tulips each spring, now is lit by 1,400 points of LED light seeming to play among the flowerbeds. But they left out the wow factor, and there’s wow factor after wow factor after wow factor in the creations at the nine locations, including the Rose Arbor, Large Lake, Flower Garden Walk, Topiary Garden and grand Conservatory.Īt the Rose Arbor, the huge fronds of bismarckia palms are illuminated by a dazzling kaleidoscope of color that seems to be emanating from inside the plant. with moving imagery, light and original music using Longwood’s plants and landscape as the canvas.” Longwood calls “Nightscape: A Light and Sound Experience by Klip Collective” an “immersive journey. “Nightscape is a part of our master plan or vision to create new experiences for our guests to view and create deeper understanding of our world class gardens and landscape,” Redman says. Those plans included opening the new Meadow Garden last year. It’s also part of Longwood’s five-year plan to find ways to showcase the vast offerings of the gardens founded in1906 by Pierre du Pont. “It’s neither art or entertainment specifically, but a combination of factors – science, cinematography, sound and horticulture.” “Nightscape is a garden experience reimagined,” says Longwood Executive Director Paul B. It is so unusual and there’s so much going on in each of the nine displays that it nearly defies description. The bank of trees behind the large lake becomes a canvas for a loop that depicts the gardens through the four seasons, complete with dropping fall leaves, snow, dragonflies and jumping fish. A rose the size of a Volkswagen blooms on the wall of the heavenly scented flower walk. The 600 feet of a tall hedgerow walk become an underwater aquarium. Living sculptures in the topiary seem to be made of carved stone one second only to turn into hilarious 3D brass instruments the next. Longwood Gardens “Nightscape” has turned hot summer nights into an enchanted romp through plants illuminated by mesmerizing light shows set to often otherworldly music.Ī floating, rotating sphere welcomes guests to the Conservatory. View Gallery: Longwood Gardens “Nightscape”
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