Washington Crossing's Twilight Garden Tour Digs Into Poison and Folklore Oct. 30
Bucks Co. & Beyond Daily
Bucks Co. & Beyond Daily
Not every plant in a colonial garden was there for dinner. Washington Crossing Historic Park offers Twilight Garden Tour: Poison, Potions & Folklore in the Colonial Garden on Friday, Oct. 30, 2026, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., a dusk walk through the Hibbs House Kitchen Garden, according to the park. Registration is required.
It's a clever companion to the park's fall evenings, since it runs just before the park's Oct. 30 Lantern Tour.
Park Historical Horticulturist Anna Davis leads the walk through the plants that lived on the darker edge of the 18th-century garden, per the park. Back then, gardens supplied more than food and beauty: they were also sources of medicines, protective herbs, dyes and, now and then, plants with dangerous reputations. Expect stories about herbs believed to ward off evil, plants that could heal or harm depending on their use, and the folklore around everyday garden plants in early America, from bitter wormwood to the deep red dyes of madder root.
The program is listed at the park's Visitor Center & Historic Village, 1112 River Road, Washington Crossing. Registration is required, so sign up through the park before you go. Questions go to the Friends of Washington Crossing Park at (215) 493-4076.
When is the Twilight Garden Tour at Washington Crossing?
Friday, Oct. 30, 2026, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., according to Washington Crossing Historic Park.
Who leads it?
Park Historical Horticulturist Anna Davis, in the Hibbs House Kitchen Garden, per the park.
Do I need to register?
Yes. Registration is required, according to the park.
Curious about living near the park? My Washington Crossing neighborhood guide covers it, and you can browse the rest of Bucks County from there.
Poison, potions and folklore in a colonial kitchen garden at dusk is my kind of history lesson for Halloween week. I'm Nick Rau, President of Sales with the Rarity Real Estate Team, ranked in the Top 1% of agents nationally (RealTrends 2025, individual), with more than 135 Google reviews, and I live right here in Bucks County.
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File photo (December 2023), not the tour. The Hibbs House and its kitchen garden in Washington Crossing Historic Park. Photo (cropped): Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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