DALLAS
2014 marks the 30th anniversary of the Dallas Arboretum's major floral festival Dallas Blooms with the theme "Birds in Paradise." Dallas Blooms begins on February 22, 2014, and runs through April 6, 2014. The garden explodes with color as more than 500,000 spring-blossoming bulbs burst, and the iconic peacock topiaries return to spread their colorful petal tails in the Jonsson Color Garden.
Brian Shivers, Dallas Arboretum board chairman, said, "Dallas Blooms is the Southwest's largest floral festival with both local residents and out of town visitors who come to enjoy the breath-taking gardens. USA Today has named Dallas Blooms one of the 'top 10 things that make you say ahh,' and we invite the community to visit this spring."
Dallas Blooms features tulips, daffodils, Dutch Iris and hyacinths, pansies, violas, poppies and thousands of other spring-blooming annuals and perennials. The finale of this spring celebration is the mass flowering of the garden's collection of 3,000 azaleas that bloom through the end of April.
As part of Dallas Blooms, the Dallas Arboretum also launches its Bird House Exhibit, life-size playhouses designed by local architects to complement this year's theme, Birds in Paradise. This creative exhibit is located in the Lakeside Exhibit Area. Children can play in these bird houses, while learning about bird predators, bird adaptations, how they find they prey, how they camouflage themselves and survive, how they migrate, how they create nests, lay eggs and more.
Throughout the festival and beyond, there are multiple events to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Dallas Blooms.
The Dallas Arboretum is a hub of various private functions and events, with 66 acres that include numerous indoor and outdoor meeting spaces, including the 21,000-square-foot DeGolyer Estate.
