GPOD on the Road: Garden d’Lights at Bellevue

A Bellevue Botanical Garden volunteer shares the incredible light displays she helps to design and create every year

Happy Holidays , GPODers !

The holiday often bring to take care many activities that hap outside of the garden : Big house meal , shopping for gifts , and hang holiday parties . But there are also so many body process to savor alfresco , even when the temperatures spend . This can admit marveling at dazzle Christ Within and decoration displays in front of your neighbor ’s household or at public parks and garden . Today , to celebrate this hebdomad of festivities , we ’re delight a compliance from Cleo Raulerson of the annualGarden d’LightsatBellevue Botanical Gardenin Bellevue , Washington .

You might spot Cleo ’s name from the inspiring duty tour she did of her back garden in fall ( previous October in Cleo ’s Back Garden ) . She is in reality a volunteer at Bellevue and helps to put this spectacular show on every twelvemonth . She gives more detail below .

Garden d’Lights have over half a million sparkling light formed into the whimsical shape of plants , flowers , birds , animals , and cascade waterfalls put amid the natural beauty of the Bellevue Botanical Garden . This is our 30th yr and we ask about 70,000 visitor to look over the 31 dark of the effect . ( Tickets must be purchased on-line athttps://bellevuebotanical.org/garden-dlights . Tickets are not sold at the logic gate )

As a volunteer , I top a dedicated group of volunteers ( 6,400 + hour total each year ) who are fully responsible for the design , build , initiation and maintenance of the loose structure for Garden d’Lights . The designs are all created by our voluntary and our finish is to create the essence of the plant , although we are creative on the size and our displays are based on colors , not which plants turn together or fourth dimension of yr that a plant blossom .

A clematis - covered treillage with sunflowers behind it correct up as a pic archway for selfies , and many colourful bloom on the other side of the path .

White genus Liatris in front of pinkish and yellow lupin with blue and white genus Allium further back , and butterflies flying overhead , planted in our Urban Meadow .

Bell in front of white mushrooms at base of a ‘ tangible ’ cedarwood Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree with blue & white delphinium stand stately at the back .

A river running between pink and white-hot foxgloves with skunk cabbage in the front and dragonflies flying overhead .

A willow Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree is the focal pointedness for many colorful flowers on the ‘ material ’ lawn . Back row : Umbrella plant , cat tails , coneflower , delphiniums . Third row : White allium , cherry Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , blue-blooded iris . Second row : Pink and white-hot agapanthus . First quarrel : Hyacinth .

Corn guard by a scarer in our vegetable garden .

Green toad on lily pads surrounded by water lilies over our ‘ actual ’ water holding pool with key lobelia in the front and the ‘ real ’ rock garden lit up with colored flood lights .

Two puritanical heron in front of cat tush .

Our blossom stand which tell visitors the public figure of some of our flowers so that they can have fun find them in the display .

give thanks you so much for conquer and sharing these incredible displays , Cleo ! I ’ve seen my parcel of cool light presentation , but I ’m utterly impress by the way the light bulb have been manipulated to front exactly like radiate petals and leaves . The light displays will remain up at Bellevue Botanical Garden until December 31st , so if you ’re in the Seattle area you should perfectly find the time to see these awe-inspiring creations before the year ends .

And I hope all GPOD referee are having a mythologic vacation time of year . No matter what you observe or what your jubilation looks like ( even if there is n’t much celebrate at all ) , I hope it ’s a restorative time to wind down the year and prepare for the new yr in front .

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To submit , broadcast 5 - 10 picture to[email protected]along with some information about the plants in the pictures and where you took the photos . We ’d get it on to take heed where you are located , how long you ’ve been garden , success you are gallant of , failure you get wind from , hopes for the hereafter , preferred plants , or comic taradiddle from your garden .

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