Horticulture Students Take Enviously Green Field Trip

Published 10.23.2017

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    Autumn colors greet Longwood visitors from the outset.Every inch, a showplaceClassmates pause in the midst of their inspiring journey.A "thousand-bloom" chrysanthemum soon will take center stage to dazzle conservatory guests.Blue skies and abundant sunshine punctuate the North Creek stopover.On a recent Tuesday (and an unseasonably warm one, at that) 23 landscape/horticulture technology students traveled to Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square to enjoy the legendarily beautiful surroundings, and to go behind-the-scenes in the nursery and the production greenhouses.  The group – accompanied by Carl J. Bower Jr. and Dennis P. Skinner, assistant professors of horticulture – also toured North Creek Nursery in Landenberg, a wholesale producer of perennial plugs and grasses, specializing in native plants.
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