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Holiday at the Arboretum Is The Family Tradition You Need
Your new favorite family holiday tradition awaits you at the Dallas Arboretum, with the sights, tastes, sounds and activities to create lasting memories. Thanksgiving feels like the official kickoff to all things holiday in North Texas, and at the Dallas Arboretum, we have made sure to put together an exciting calendar of everything you and…
Fall Is Blooming Bright at the Dallas Arboretum
The gardens are vibrant with fall color at the Dallas Arboretum. November is a unique time here; cooler nights actually tend to bring out a great deal of verdant life as the garden gets ready for winter – flower and leaves in bright greens, blues, and purples, plus traditional fall oranges and yellows, splash across…
A Perfect Fall Day at the Arboretum
Cooler weather means it’s time to plan the perfect fall day at the Dallas Arboretum. This season’s events promise to put a smile on your loved ones’ faces. And in case you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed by all of our amazing events, we’ve put together an unbeatable autumn itinerary for you and your family. Arriving…
Digging into Dallas Arboretum Education Internships
Interns descend on the Dallas Arboretum Education Department every summer to spend 11 weeks helping us make our mission a reality. These college-aged interns work in summer camps with children aged 3 to 13, and through their close collaboration with our education staff they learn the ins and outs of teaching summer camps, listen to…
Autumn at the Arboretum Commemorates the Harvest Season
Why do we celebrate autumn with so much food and so many gatherings? It goes back to the harvest season. The crops, such as corn and squash, planted in spring and summer mature and become ripe for picking in autumn. In the United States and Canada, Thanksgiving is the major harvest festival, and we are…
Save Room for Salvias, One of Monarchs’ Favorites
Salvias are beautiful, easy to grow in Dallas, and attract the butterflies like crazy. If you see Monarchs resting on these happy blooms, and wish you could entice them into your garden, plan on planting salvias next season. There are a lot of Salvias—in fact over 1000 types of annual, perennial and woody species originate…
A Tasteful Place Cooks up Something New for Dallas
A Tasteful Place opened earlier this month to much excitement from Dallas Arboretum supporters and the education and food communities of North Texas. Inspired by the national movement towards growing and eating sustainable, fresh, locally sourced, delicious food, A Tasteful Place is both the newest addition to our beautiful gardens – and an incredibly stunning…
Pumpkins? Squash? Gourds? Oh My!
Autumn at the Arboretum and the “Wonderful Wizard of Oz”-inspired Pumpkin Village feature over 50 varieties of amazing pumpkins, squash and gourds. It took our talented horticulture team hundreds of hours over three weeks to turn 90,000 of these pumpkins into our best Pumpkin Village yet. And these pumpkin varieties are themselves incredibly interesting. Individuals…
Monarch Madness
The Dallas Arboretum has a case of Monarch Madness! Excitement is growing as Monarch Butterflies have begun visiting our beautiful gardens. In celebration of this amazing migration we are bringing you a whole month of Monarch butterfly programs and activities in the Rory Meyers Children’s Adventure Garden. You’re invited to come study butterfly wings, learn…
Autumn at the Arboretum Featuring the Wonderful World of Oz
The pumpkins have arrived, and Pecan Grove is beginning to look like several scenes straight out of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. This is the third Autumn at the Arboretum I’ve had a hand in planning, and to say that I am most excited about this year’s theme is a drastic understatement. I am beyond…