& If you bike there, you don’t even need to pay to get in. And go visit the CBG in general, when the weather is nice. Image: Houston Botanic Garden Right off I-45 on Park Place Boulevard is an oasis of nature and art at the Houston Botanic Garden, which has weathered both a pandemic and a devastating freeze with. one recommendation would be - if you go with a large group like we did, wear something on you (especially on the little kids!) that glows, like a glow stick bracelet or a necklace with lights, so that you don’t easily lose one another. (Even more so than the Halloween Night of 1000 Jack-o-Lanterns, which is also cool but more crowded). Join with family and friends to celebrate the beauty of nature in winter on this enchanting trail animated by a curated soundtrack and over one million dazzling lights. If they offer this again next year, I highly recommend it. Explore Brooklyn Botanic Garden like never before at the after-dark, illuminated spectacular Lightscape. In total (walking slowly with 11 people, including 1 in a stroller, and stopping once to make s’mores), it took us about 1.5 hours to make our way around the 1 mile loop. The lights and sounds were mesmerizing and laid out so well that you couldn’t see or hear what was coming around the next corner, making every new display a nice surprise. We went with all ages (from 2 to 70!), and it was lovely. Recently, we went to the first year of Lightscape, and it was a wonderful experience. I love the Japanese Garden, but really, the whole thing is gorgeous. Tickets are available here.I’ve been a long time CBG member and love coming to the Garden in nicer weather. BBG member regular admission tickets are $30 for adults and $16 for children ages 3–12. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ - Lightscape, the holiday event that sold out in its debut season, returns to the Chicago Botanic Garden this November. Non-member regular admission tickets are $34 for adults and $18 for children ages 3–12. The season’s final shows run January 6–9. Lightscape is open every day through January 2, except Christmas Day. Brooklyn, NYBrooklyn Botanic Garden announces Lightscape, a new after-dark, illuminated spectacular at BBG this winter.Lightscape celebrates the beauty of nature in winter with a festive one-mile trail winding through BBG’s 52-acre landscape, animated by dazzling light, color, and sound. Experience unlimited opportunities to escape the hustle of city life while enjoying the outdoors with family, friends, and the community by becoming a member of the Houston Botanic Garden. 1, visitors can also enjoy seasonal treats including holiday cosmos and specialty chocolate bark, as well as hot cocoa, mulled wine, savory snacks, s’mores, and more during an enchanting evening outside. Other attractions will include the Fire Garden, produced by Ashley Bertling, which uses custom-made structures to fill the garden with real fire (from candles) accompanied by seasonal music and Laser Pond, designed by Fog-Man, in which lasers beam across the water in the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden in time to music, taking the surface reflection with them and creating shapes that rise into the sky. This immersive, welcoming tunnel of warm light is equally spectacular when viewed from the inside or out. Guests will enter the installation-with a shape based on a traditional Gothic arch-at one end and walk through to the smaller tapered exit on the other side. “Winter Cathedral” by Mandylights, a multidisciplinary production and lighting design house based in the UK and Australia, is a nearly 100-foot tunnel adorned with tens of thousands of individual LED lights. “Sea of Light by Ithaca,” an award-winning company of light artists, sound designers, composers, editors, and experimenters based in the UK, is an animated light installation that will cover Cherry Esplanade with breathtaking views from the Robert W. There will be 14,000 glowing orbs of lights, a 98-foot-long Winter Cathedral tunnel, 42 sculptures, five poems by Jacquelyn Woodson projected in light, 20 treetop Wisp kinetic sculptures, 12 Pampas grass sculptures and more. A striking, multicolored installation, featuring Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s trees, that can be seen as part of Lightscape. A gobo is an object placed inside or in front of a light source to control the shape of the emitted light and its shadow. The installation uses more than 1 million lights along a 1-mile-long path utilizing 60,000 pea lights (small lights, usually in strings), 630 lighting fixtures, 600 strands of lights and 60 gobos (Go Between Optics). The exhibit also features new site-specific light works by local artists, all accompanied by a curated soundtrack along the way.