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Come Explore the Indoor Children's Garden

Don't miss the amazing space just for kids!

Discover the hidden secrets of the Children's Garden with a scavenger hunt. Stop by the Children’s Curiosity Cart located in the Bamboo Maze to pick up a scavenger hunt card—each one geared to different ages and abilities.

Discover a xylophone in the Grotto Cave and play with other musical props throughout the Garden. There is always something new to find! For a complete list of our exciting activities throughout the Gardens, pick up a Children's Map in the Visitor Center.

The Indoor Children's Garden features:

• The Central Cove, with a tree-covered seating area, a central pool with flower-shaped water jets and jewel-like mosaics, and three animal adorned sculptures shooting streams of water from overhead into the pool. Children will move from the Central Cove into the Rain Pavilion, which features water curtains on two sides. Look up and you will see the glass ceiling allowing a view of water running overhead.

• The Secret Room is home to the Drooling Dragon water feature, and a balcony that overlooks the Central Cove.
  
  
• The Ramp, accented by an ever-changing Water Curtain and animated by the leaping water “glow worm,” leads children to a Tower overlooking the Bamboo Maze. Water runs down the glow worm into a swallowing salamander at the bottom of the ramp.
  
  
  
  
  

• The Grotto Cave, underneath the Tower, contains a shallow fog-covered pool activated by water dripping from sculpted snakes coiled overhead.
  
  
• The Bamboo Maze offers a jungle of tree-size bamboos for children to explore. The Maze contains five visitor-activated water features accented with ornate bird sculptures.

The garden is handicap accessible. A surrounding walkway allows “grown” children to enjoy the garden as well as keep an eye on the action. With 17 fountains in the garden to enjoy, children will want to splash and play, so an extra shirt or small towel might come in handy.

Visit Longwood's online plant database, Plant Explorer, to learn more about the plants in the Indoor Children's Garden.