Well maintained facility, lots of friendly/helpful workers. We visited on a beautiful fall afternoon. If you like flowers/gardens/greenhouses this is the place for you!! We enjoyed our trip/walk through the gardens. We went hoping to find ideas for our garden/flower beds at home. Found a few species we liked, but we thought for most part the gardens at Longwood are more exotic/labor intensive than what you would use in a home garden -- unless this is what your hobby is and you like to spend hours working/maintaining it. To be honest, we like to look at gardens/flowers, and those at Longwood were impressive, but we probably won't be returning agin for a while (last time was about 10 years ago during Christmas time). We visited using Groupon, and got in for half price. Perfect for us.