Longwood Gardens - Woman at Well Wets Whistle
Channel: GeekaSeltzer
Date: 08/08/2008

Visitors at Longwood Gardens will appreciate the many unique attractions available to them upon admission. Walking about the grounds requires lots of energy, and with that expenditure of energy comes the need for keeping well-hydrated, especially on a warm summer day!  And so from time-to-time one may wish to seek out a cool drink from one of the artistically designed and strategically placed drinking fountains. Seen here at our first stop in this June 2008 amateur Longwood Gardens video tour, Angelina enjoys a few quick sips from this particulary fine water dispensing apparatus. It sits invitingly off the main path to the West Gardens, adjacent to the fabulous Rose Garden. Get there as follows:  After saying thanks to the ticket taker head outside and make your first left. This pathway will take you to the West Gardens. Along the way you'll pass by a wide road on your right that leads north to the conservatories. Keep walking and you'll find this little well a stone's throw farther down on your right, just this side of the hard-to-miss tree sculptures looming large in the Topiary Garden. (Note that throwing stones in public to measure distance between attractions is a potentially dangerous practice and strictly forbidden at the Gardens. Even in private it remains at best a dubious approach to acquiring empirical data.) Here thirsty rose lovers converge on warm summer days to wet their whistles and perhaps make a wish while doing so. And just a few steps away lies the Rose Garden where one's senses may be further satiated by feasting on the velvety soft specimens, figuratively of course since eating the plants is also a violation of visitor policy, and imbibing in their wonderfully intoxicating scents. People must really eat these roses though, because by the time we got there it was coming up on lunch time, and there were really only a few good ones were left. (You can view a close-up of a rare, uneaten yellow Hybrid Tea Rose in the next segment of this video tour, "Longwood Gardens - Hybrid Tea Rose: Great Mileage and Roughage Too".  For a quick 360 pan of the Topiary Garden, see "Longwood Gardens - Topiary Topography is Tops!")