Dallas Blooms at the Dallas Arboretum ushers in springtime in Dallas from now through April 8, 2024. This year, the theme is A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words.
The popular floral festival features more than 500,000 spring-blooming bulbs, including tulips, daffodils, Dutch Iris, hyacinths, pansies, violas, poppies, and thousands of other spring annuals and perennials.
Beyond being a visual floral delight, Dallas Blooms transforms into a playground of joy for families, offering cherished activities like petting zoos, bubble picnics, and heartwarming story times. You and your children are invited to special Mommy and Me Mondays and Tiny Tot Tuesdays, tailor-made to spark their imaginations, and Family Fun Weekends.
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During one visually stunning week, about 150 cherry trees burst with blossoms in pink and white, reminding everyone that spring has sprung. The finale of this spring celebration is the mass flowering of the garden’s collection of 3,000 azaleas that bloom during April.
Dallas Blooms also features an abundance of garden markets with select vendors, live music, and a garden to stroll, relax, and enjoy time together.
Cool Thursdays Concerts Series
The festival includes the return of the popular Cool Thursdays Concerts series. Starting with Emerald City, Dallas’ Favorite Party Band, on April 4. Get your tickets early because these concerts are often sell out, or order a 2024 SPRING Season Subscription.
On weekends at noon and other select dates, live piano performances are in Jeanne’s Pavilion. Also, on weekends, listen to the sounds of North Texas’ most popular party bands on the Martin Rutchik Concert Stage and Lawn—the perfect place to picnic.
A Tasteful Place Events
For connoisseurs of culinary pleasures (foodies), the daily offerings at A Tasteful Place spotlight tastings meticulously curated from the freshest local, seasonal ingredients. You can satisfy your culinary passions by immersing yourself in cooking classes or attending the highly anticipated Food and Wine Festival on March 21.
- Daily: Samples of the vegetable of the month
- Mondays: Dallas College Cooks Demonstrations at 11 a.m.
- Tuesdays: Tasteful Tuesdays Floral Demonstrations at 11 a.m. and Chef Isabel Snetsinger at 1 p.m. with a cooking demonstration
- Wednesdays: Chef-Tastic Cooking Demonstrations at 11 a.m.
- Thursdays: What’s in Bloom Walk at 1 p.m.
- Fridays: Learn to Grow Fridays with Master Gardeners, Master Naturalists, the Dallas Arboretum Horticultural Staff, and local experts at 11 a.m.
Rory Meyers Children’s Adventure Garden
The newly reopened Rory Meyers Children’s Adventure Garden features 17 indoor/outdoor galleries, 150 interactive science games, and daily events and activities of themed adventures throughout the Dallas Blooms festival.
This eight-acre garden is the gold standard for children’s outdoor educational facilities. The innovative place for preschool through middle school children to learn about life and earth sciences features exciting indoor and outdoor galleries designed with established state and national standards to teach life and earth science.
Each of the kid-friendly galleries focuses on a science theme. Children will be immersed in nature as they stroll along the boardwalk, roam through the grass tunnel, explore a full acre of native Texas wetlands, cross through the tree canopy along the Texas Skywalk, and explore under a waterfall. The 9,100-square-foot indoor Exploration Center uses technology and includes a plant lab, a soil station, and a six-foot OmniGlobe in which people can learn about weather patterns, the solar system, and more.
The Children’s Adventure Garden is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For a complete list of upcoming events and activities, visit www.dallasarboretum.org/childrensadventuregarden.
*(There is an additional cost of $3 per person for entrance into the Rory Meyers Children’s Adventure Garden. **These are general admission prices for outside festival dates in the garden.)
About The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden
The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden is one of North America’s most beautiful and top-display gardens. With 66 acres on the shores of White Rock Lake, this nationally recognized garden has changeable displays four times a year, providing breathtaking color for visitors all year long.
This urban oasis, just minutes from downtown Dallas, attracts approximately a million visitors each year to its finely manicured grounds. The Arboretum is also a popular bridal photography spot and wedding destination, with nearly 300 weddings held in the gardens and facilities annually. In addition, people book the garden for hundreds of private and corporate events.
Located at 8525 Garland Road, Dallas, TX 75218, on the southeastern shore of White Rock Lake.
Tickets Information: Admission tickets range from $13 to $22 and can be purchased online at www.dallasarboretum.org. Parking is $11 when purchased online or $15 at the gate. For the latest information, visit www.dallasarboretum.org/blooms.
Special Day Discounts: BOGO (Buy One, Get One Free) on Wednesdays (except for March 14) and CC Young Senior Living on Thursdays (those who are 65 years and older receive discounted admission and 20% off in the Gift Store.
Hours: The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden is open to the public year-round, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Parking: On-site, $16, or $12 if purchased in advance online. The parking garage provides 1,150 additional spaces. It is located across the street from the Rory Meyers Children’s Adventure Garden, with a secure underground walkway underneath Garland Road for safe access to the main entrance. The garage and underground walkway are both handicap accessible.
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