Bulbs Planted Now Bloom Beautiful This Spring
In a way, Dallas Blooms 2018 has already begun at the Dallas Arboretum, because the horticulture work to get ready for the spring is well underway. It starts in late fall, making this one of the busiest times of the year for our Horticulture Team. There is a lot involved in getting the garden ready…
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…
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…
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…
Texas Native Plants Abound
You probably know about our premiere outdoor laboratory, the Rory Meyer’s Children’s Adventure Garden, and the plethora of public and school programming that takes place there, but you may be surprised by one of our newest educational spaces: the Texas Native Plant Lab. This new space is an outdoor learning laboratory that allows students to…
Food Options at the Dallas ArborEATum
We’re no strangers to a delicious bite at the Dallas Arboretum. One thing our visitors love to do is wear themselves out walking our beautiful paths, satiating their desire for nature beauty, and then enjoy a fabulous meal to satisfy their… well their appetite for food. Back in the heat of summer, Zagat published a…
Hot Topic: Peppers
I can’t help but like peppers, and I think most people feel this way. They come in so many shape, sizes, colors and flavors. I was recently asked by a reporter to describe peppers and I responded that they are the “fun” vegetable. I think I like to grow them more for how they look…
The Solar Eclipse in Dallas
Let’s talk about the August 21st, 2017 Solar Eclipse! For millennia, humans have found solar eclipses awe inspiring. When we knew very little about our solar system and the Earth’s position in it, humans viewed solar eclipses as supernatural occurrences, celestial miracles. Now, we appreciate solar eclipses as magnificent natural phenomena. Solar eclipses are even more…
Letting Students Get Wild about Zimbabwean Art & Nature at Summer Camp
Dallas Arboretum educators led seven weeks of summer campers through lessons about animals all over the world and the wonder of Zimbabwean stone sculpture, ZimSculpt. How can you effectively use a traveling exhibit as a vehicle for scientific discovery and summer adventure? We capitalized on having two artists in residence, making them the centerpiece of…