Take In the Sights, Sounds and Smells of Dallas Arboretum’s Annual Festival

The 21st Annual Dallas Blooms festival, held at the Dallas Arboretum, welcomes visitors from around the globe once again this spring from March 5^th through April 10^th.

 The largest outdoor floral festival in the Southwest, this year’s theme, Proud as a Peacock, will feature 400,000 spring-blooming bulbs and two towering 15-foot peacock topiaries. 

Erickson’s plans for a huge greenhouse, and a sensitively designed landscape that pays homage to the horticultural heritage of the Highland Springs site, will make a significant contribution to this tradition of celebrating the beauty and variety of the North Texas environment.

A North Texas Tradition

“Dallas Blooms” is a rite of spring in the South. We are proud of the tradition of flowers we have in this spectacular 66-acre garden during this festival, and year-round,” says Angela Choquette, festival co-chair.

Throughout the 2005 festival, Arboretum guests will be surrounded by the radiant color of some 400,000 newly planted and naturalized spring-blooming bulbs, including tulips, daffodils, Dutch iris and hyacinth. More than 20,000 azalea bushes, along with 80,000 pansies and violas, will add sumptuous shades of pink, red, purple, orange, yellow and white.

Enormous Pride

Standing 15 feet tall, two peacock topiaries will greet guests in the Jonsson Color Garden. Each topiary will be covered with 300 green English ivy plants and crowned with a plume of pampas grass. The peacock tails will spread to approximately 2,100 square feet, and will be filled with more than 9,000 flowering plants including ageratum, dusty miller, viola and cineraria in beautiful shades of blue, purple, yellow and silver.

Tea and Trees