"Garden d'Lights features over 1/2 million light which transform the Bellevue Botanical Garden into a blossoming winter wonderland."
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"For 11 months of the year, volunteers put in hundreds of hours busily handcrafting Garden d'Linghts displays. Starting with a single string of lights, they carefully fashion 3D representations of botanically corrct plants and flowers inspired by gardens in Northwest gardens and around the world."
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"Garden d'Lights began in 1994 with a few strings of purple and clear lights placed on a trellis ...to evoke wisteria and grape vines. The display was immediately popular with visitors. Over the years more ambitious displays were added to the various gardens and visitor areas." - Text from the brochure given us as we entered the garden.
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Not being a drug user, I can only wonder if this is what an actual garden might look under the influence of some sort of hallucinogenic drug.
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Can you see the gardener? The brochure didn't comment upon his/her botanical correctness or lack thereof.
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Over 7,000 volunteer hours are required each year to create, build and maintain the existing inventory. Can you imagine? I hope these aren't the kind of lights where if one light in the string goes out, they all go out. How frustrating would that be?
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What a fun way to spend Saturday evening! For more information, check out the Garden d'Lights website here.
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"Over 100,000 people enjoy this dazzling display each holiday season."
"For 11 months of the year, volunteers put in hundreds of hours busily handcrafting Garden d'Linghts displays. Starting with a single string of lights, they carefully fashion 3D representations of botanically corrct plants and flowers inspired by gardens in Northwest gardens and around the world."
"Garden d'Lights began in 1994 with a few strings of purple and clear lights placed on a trellis ...to evoke wisteria and grape vines. The display was immediately popular with visitors. Over the years more ambitious displays were added to the various gardens and visitor areas." - Text from the brochure given us as we entered the garden.
Not being a drug user, I can only wonder if this is what an actual garden might look under the influence of some sort of hallucinogenic drug.
Can you see the gardener? The brochure didn't comment upon his/her botanical correctness or lack thereof.
These delphiniums need no additional staking!
Charlotte preparing getting ready for dinner.
Light shows are great fun and I appreciated the focus on gardens and gardening in this one!
Over 7,000 volunteer hours are required each year to create, build and maintain the existing inventory. Can you imagine? I hope these aren't the kind of lights where if one light in the string goes out, they all go out. How frustrating would that be?
This huge tree was a popular backdrop for a lot of people taking selfies.
Potted poinsettia was a real turn on. (Sorry, couldn't help it.)
Fortunately for all in attendance, I resisted bursting into "You Light Up My Life."
Lupines?
No garden in the Pacific Northwest is complete without slugs! This one is named Willie.
A quick visit to the tropics.
Mmmmmmmmmmmagenta!
Barrel cacti.
They named it Snap d'Dragon.
Love the potting benches!
Tomatoes ripening in the veggie garden.
Pesky rabbit near the carrots.
This tree rakes its own leaves. Wow, that is a garden fantasy!
These sunflowers were much taller than I.
Cycads? Agaves?
Now that's a water feature!
What a fun way to spend Saturday evening! For more information, check out the Garden d'Lights website here.
Hope you enjoyed our visit and will plan to visit yourself if you're in the area!