Longwood volunteers create piece de resistance

Series of quilts chronicle garden’s beauty – from flowers to felines By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times A detail from the three-paneled, light-themed quilt shows the garden’s bird of paradise flowers. The goal was grand: Capture the colors of Longwood Gardens in a quilt. First suggested in 1996, the project failed to leave the drawing board more than once. But that was before...