Dallas Arboretum Welcomes Dallas Blooms Visitors

The Dallas Arboretum is filled with color; from pale pink to bright yellow and dark red. The Dallas Blooms is the largest annual flower festival in the Southwest.

“Everything is happening so fast! Every day a new tulip or daffodil blooms,” said Dallas Arboretum Vice President Dave Forehand. “If you don’t like the color, come back in about 5 days. It will be a tulip of a different color.”

“The weather is perfect,” said Estela Perez. Perez brought her children, Alejandro and Camila Gonzalez, to the arboretum from their home in Melissa for the day. “It’s so relaxing!”

Dallas Blooms has about 500,000 flowers with 100 different varieties of bulbs that were planted months ago to bloom now. North Texas freezes didn’t harm them. It really helped.

“It actually slowed everything down by about a week, which made the timing perfect for our opening,” Forehand said. “So it just put everything on ice. No pun!”

Spring break is one of the busiest times of the year in Dallas Arboretumwhich has scheduled events throughout the Dallas Blooms.

“We will always have digital devices,” Forehand said. “The arboretum is a place where you not only use them to take great photos, but you just want to put them away and enjoy what’s natural and beautiful here.”

Dallas Blooms runs until April 16 at the Dallas Arboretum. Tickets are sold by time slots. For more information click here.