This year there are more pumpkins at The Dallas Arboretum than ever before.  If you missed Pretty Baby sitting in the pumpkin patch you can click HERE.  That was too much fun, but today I wanted to focus on the gorgeous displays during the Fall Festival.

Piles and piles of pumpkins, squash, and gourds fill the park.  Just look at the variety of pumpkins – bright orange, light orange, white, grey, even the light pink warty pumpkins.

So many of the pumpkins are HUGE.  That was amazing.

Pumpkins still line the parameter of the beds.  For the most part, the mums are not blooming yet.  I think within the next week or so they should be blooming.

 

There are topiaries among the marigolds.

I love the pumpkin “flowers”.

Drum roll please!  A new exhibit will be opening at the Dallas Arboretum during the upcoming Christmas season.  You may have heard this already.  The Twelve Days of Christmas displays are coming to The Dallas Arboretum.  Twelve fifteen foot tall gazebos are being built for this extravaganza.  (The project costs $2,000,000.  Yes, that would be 2 million dollars.)  The displays should be fabulous.  Inside each glass inclosed gazebo there will be life-sized mechanical figures that will illustrate each of the twelve days made famous in the holiday Christmas carol.  Set designers that design sets for the Dallas Opera were hired to bring the carol to life.

On the first day of Christmas
my true love sent to me:
12 Drummers Drumming
11 Pipers Piping
10 Lords a Leaping
9 Ladies Dancing
8 Maids a Milking
7 Swans a Swimming
6 Geese a Laying
5 Golden Rings
4 Calling Birds
3 French Hens
2 Turtle Doves
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree

The Twelve Days at Night promises to be even more spectacular.  During the evenings, the gazebos will be illuminated, and carolers will be strolling through the gardens.  It sounds magical, and I so want to go.  The Twelve Days at Night does require separate tickets, and they are on sale now.  HERE is the link for more information.

For now, I will leave you with one last autumn picture.  I encourage you not to miss the Fall Festival.  You might as well buy a season pass ($125.00) so you and five of your nearest and dearest can enjoy the gardens during the entire year.  It is money well spent, and it is 100% tax deductible.

Blessings to you and yours,

For $50.00 more you can have unlimited access to the new Rory Meyers Children’s Adventure Gardens.

The Dallas Arboretum does not know me.  I am just sharing.