
Longwood Gardens' officials hope area residents will cast daily ballots until Monday, March 28, to help them secure the top spot in a national survey to determine the best U.S. botanical garden.
What does the New York Botanical Garden have that Longwood Gardens lacks? Perhaps its surrounding neighbors. The New York site’s 250 acres lie within the Bronx, one of the nation’s densest, greenery-starved locales. How else to explain the fact that the New York attraction keeps grabbing the lead from Longwood in the 2016 USA Today Readers’ Choice Travel Awards? ...