Early in the morning you will go on a tour to the first capital of the United States – Philadelphia. The program includes a visit to the central part of the city, where exquisite ancient buildings coexist with majestic modern skyscrapers. You will visit the Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States were adopted, and you will see the Liberty Bell, the main relic of democratic America.

From Philadelphia, the path will lie to the famous DuPont Gardens - Longwood Gardens.

This miracle, created by the mind of a brilliant engineer and gardener, must be seen with your own eyes. More than 11,000 plants are collected here - on flower beds, lawns, in 20 open and 20 winter gardens.

Who is this genius? Pierre Dupont (1870-1954) was chairman of DuPont and General Motors, the great-grandson of Eluther Irene Dupont, who fled the French Revolution to America and founded the chemical corporation DuPont de Nemours.

Pierre Dupont was an extraordinary man: the broadest outlook and encyclopedic education were combined in him with the dreaminess of the child. Collecting and growing the most outlandish plants around the world was his hobby. Purchased in 1906.In the old estate in Kennett Square, 50 kilometers from Philadelphia, Pierre Dupont moved there with his wife and began to realize his magical dreams. A talented engineer and architect, he first built an interconnected system of fountains and ponds, still considered a masterpiece. He then completely redesigned the garden and greenhouse, turning it into one of the wonders of America. As the estate was developed, he continued the tradition of the Piers family (who had previously owned the property and who, as early as the early 18th century, began to collect a unique collection of plants), inviting the general public to the garden to admire its beauty. Pierre Dupont bequeathed his garden "for exclusive public use for the purpose of exhibitions, education, education and enjoyment of the beauty of plants."

Today, Longwood's main greenhouse is filled with the aroma of flowers. They are carefully selected and often changed, so the exposure is constantly transformed. Longwood gardeners, constantly expanding the collection of flowers and plants, already rich, travel the world in search of new plants, adapting them to life in a new environment.

The gardens are good all the time:

From mid-January to the end of March, you can hide from the winter cold in the luxurious greenhouse among thousands of lushly flowering orchids; from the beginning of April to the end of May, more than 250 thousand young sprouts appear from the earth, opening, they bloom all around with bright spring colors; from the end of May to the beginning of September - sparkling fountains, fresh coolness of shady alleys, the charm of summer; from mid-September to the end of November - the holiday of ripe fruits illuminated with autumn foliches, glowing gold, roaring with thousands of trees at the end of the new winter; The park hosts music evenings, fountain shows and fireworks shows.

Six hundred workers, students and volunteer assistants, including 50 gardeners, keep Longwood’s beauty alive. Hundreds of thousands of nature lovers come to Longwood Botanical Park in Pennsylvania. This 480-hectare plant paradise includes 40 gardens and exhibition pavilions.