Autumn at the Arboretum

Start date: Saturday, September 19, 2009
Event is ongoing: Until Sunday, November 1, 2009

This fall festival, which runs September 19th through November 1st, boasts of more than 150,000 fall blooming flowers including chrysanthemums, salvia, coleus, ornamental grasses and impatiens. Always a favorite spot for the family photo, The Tom Thumb Pumpkin Patch and the gardens are filled with over 25,000 decorative pumpkins and gourds. Also in the Pecan Grove is the walk-through 15' pumpkin house constructed out of the finest pumpkins in the patch and a 10' pumpkin topiary decorated with orange marigolds.

Weekday Activities:
Hay Bale Maze
Storybook Playhouses
Music on the Loggia, 11am-2pm
AT&T Senior Citizen Thursdays, 9am-5pm ($6.50 admission, 65 & older)
'Two for One' Wednesdays (limited one per person with coupon)
Wednesday morning garden tours, 11am (limited to 30 guests)

Weekend Activities
Music on the Loggia - 11am-2pm
Jazz Trio on the Martin Rutchik Concert Stage, Saturday, 12-4 pm, Sunday 1-4 pm
Root Beer Saloon - Root beer floats and home-made snack items, 10am-4pm
Saturday morning garden tours, 11am (limited to 30 guests)

More activities:
James French Photography 10am - 2pm ($15 per photo)
Face-painting 10am - 1pm
Petting Zoo 10am - 2pm
Arts & Crafts 10am - 2pm
Strollerfit, 10-10:45 am - (Mondays only)
Creative Movement 11am - 11:30am - (Mondays only)
Kindermusik with Miss Lisa - Noon-12:30pm