March 22, 2011
Spring Arrives At Bellagio’s Conservatory & Botanical Gardens – “Carnival In The Garden” Features Carousel, Ferris Wheel And Butterflies ON Display Through May 8
To celebrate the debut of spring, Bellagio’s Conservatory & Botanical Gardens feature a spectacular floral exhibition filled with bright blooms and a playful carnival, on display through May 8.
Four enchanting gardens lure guests with scents of tulips, hydrangeas and daisies, while a colorful Ferris wheel, moving carousel and greenhouse full of beautiful butterflies catch the eye and lift the spirit.
At the entrance of the Conservatory, guests are invited to stroll through a romantic walkway lined with eight lamp posts and Linden trees with dazzling lights strung above. Nearby, a moving 11-foot tall carousel makes its Conservatory debut. Weighing more than 8,600 pounds, the carnival favorite is adorned with 330 clear bulbs and colorful acrylic balloons as a cedar ticket booth completes the whimsical scene.
Steps away, a 40-foot full-scale Ferris wheel decorated with animated lighting, captures the nostalgia and spirit of a spring carnival.
The majestic centerpiece of this exhibit is a stone-based rustic greenhouse that houses more than 500 live butterflies from around the world. Nearby, a “fantasy” tree decorated with cherry blossoms soars 25 feet overhead as its spiraled branches reach for the spring sky revealed by the venue’s all-glass ceiling. Illustrating the sculptural beauty of nature, the tree is first formed into a metal skeleton and then covered with more than 420,000 feet of tightly woven willow branches. Two elegant egrets guard their nest on the banks of a small pond while oversized butterflies, comprised of flax & onion seeds, strawflowers and sweet rice, hang vibrantly overhead.
In conjunction with the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art’s new exhibit “A Sense of Place: Landscapes from Monet to Hockney,” debuting on April 16, the Conservatory has created an interpretation of David Hockney’s Garrowby Hill (1998) using a colorful array of flora. Located in the Giardini corner, the recreated painting is fitted within a 6-foot tall elaborately carved frame accompanied by a 12-foot wood tapered painter’s brush and oversized paint palette with simulated smeared oil paints.
The spring exhibit within Bellagio’s Conservatory & Botanical Gardens is complimentary to the public and open seven days a week, 24 hours a day.
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A TRIP TO VEGAS WOULD NOT BE COMPLETE WITHOUT VISITING BELLAGIO’S SEASONAL DISPLAYS. AM SO GLAD WE ARE GOING THIS WEEK AND WILL NOT MISS THIS ONE. WE HAD FRIENDS WHO WERE THERE TWO WEEKS AGO WHO DID NOT HEED OUR ADVICE TO VISIT.
AM SO LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING THIS ONE. WE WILL NEVER TIRE OF WHAT VEGAS HAS TO OFFER.