Dallas Arboretum

 On our way to the Texas Festival, Trish and I ended up with an extra travel day.  So, we decided to stop over in Dallas where we could spend a day at the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden.  This was the perfect time of year for such a visit.

While the hyacinths were just finishing, the tulips and daffodils are in the prime of their bloom season.  We learned that they plant about half a million bulbs here each year and we think we saw all of them.

It was a beautiful partially cloudy and comfortably warm day.  We ended up spending  nearly five hours there in all.  The total garden is sixty-six acres, all beautifully landscaped and perfectly enhanced by the spring bulbs.

The color blends were very carefully done and showed a lot of artistic thought. Still, you never know what it will look like until they actually come up and bloom.  This must be even more exciting to see by those who did the plantings.

Something we had never seen anywhere before were the walls of flowers where slanting pots had been arranged in ascending rows up a perpendicular wall so that as the plants grew they covered the entire wall.  These were really fascinating.

Here we are standing in front of one of those walls.

As we left, we knew one thing, we will both recommend this place and we, ourselves, will come here again.