Winter at Longwood

The cold months bring a fresh perspective to the world-renowned gardens.

Photographer Carlos Alejandro of Hockessin spent more than a year traipsing around the new Meadow Garden at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pa., looking for just the right shots. “I was there at dawn in near-zero temperatures after a snowstorm,” he says of one particular shoot. Here, Alejandro shares a sampling of meadow images from his winter collection.

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A beech tree in dawn’s frozen light.

Witch hazel toughs it out in mid-February.

A fern in the first light of a March day.

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Mallards in Hourglass Lake weather the first snow of winter.

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Hoarfrost on a frigid morning in December.

Dawn after a night of snow.