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Al Fresco Dining Tips for Spring from the Dallas Arboretum
Spring is full and the garden is lush with color, making it an amazing time to spend some time enjoying a meal or snack outside, where you might even find some inspiration to follow a popular trend in garden design this year, rethinking alfresco dining. We’re especially excited to take a look at this trend,…
Take Planting Wildflowers into Your Own Hands!
The last dormant plants in the garden have begun showing signs of life now that spring has have officially begun; with wildflower seed bombs, you can capture this moment of growth at home, bringing the same bluebonnets and blooming redbuds that fill my walk through the garden into your backyard. Last month I shared tips for…
Spring Has Sprung at the Dallas Arboretum
Spring is a really exciting time in any garden, and here at the Dallas Arboretum, the bulbs have given us stunning displays of color for the last few weeks. Walking the gardens as spring progresses always yields fun surprises and delights us as the landscape that remind us that indeed, Spring has sprung! Spring blooming…
Agents of Discovery Explore the Dallas Arboretum
We rolled out Agents of Discovery, an augmented reality educational game for mobile devices that encourages young explorers to get engaged, moving, and learning when they visit the Rory Meyers Children’s Adventure Garden. This is VERY exciting for us, because we’re always looking for new ways to enhance the learning experience for our visitors and…
Meet the Chefs of the 2018 Dallas Arboretum Food and Wine Festival
The Dallas Arboretum Food and Wine Festival is coming on March 22! (You can get your tickets here: DallasArboretum.org/FoodWineFest) It’s going to be an absolutely wonderful evening of delicious bites, savory sips, and the breathtaking beauty of Dallas Blooms. Now that the full list of participating chefs, with regions of cuisine they’ll be serving, and wineries…
Make Your Own Container Garden with Hypertufa!
Thousands of blooming bulbs have come to the Dallas Arboretum for Dallas Blooms, A World of Flowers, presented by IBERIABANK, and they have visitors and employees alike eager to refresh their home gardens or create a showy new corner. One of the most versatile ways to do this is with a container garden, but if…
Cherry Trees Grace The Dallas Arboretum
The “World of Flowers” during our annual Dallas Blooms festival promises the ephemeral beauty of Cherry trees on top of the tulips and daffodils everyone has grown to expect. With our Prunus x yedoensis, also known as Yoshino Cherry, proves that you don’t have to go to Washington D.C. to find flowering cherry trees in…
Tips for a Stress Free Wedding
You can make a beautiful, wonderful, memorable, stress-free wedding a reality for you. Whether you’ve spent your entire life dreaming of a magical wedding day, or you just started planning and realized it is not all going to fall in place by the flick of a fairy god mother’s wand, these five simple tips can…
The Meaning of Flowers on Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is here, and we at the Dallas Arboretum love flowers at least as much as you do, so we thought our readers might find it interesting to learn more about what the type and color of different flowers means in our society. There’s a story behind every variation in one of the most…
Birds of a Feather … Build Nests Together!
Spring is just around the corner at the Arboretum, and many of our native birds are actively collecting nesting materials. While they are perfectly capable of finding their own supplies, there are fun ways that you can help them out and engage your students or families. Common Features of Nests While some birds, like…