Well the water from Botanical Garden
is all decked out for the holidays.
With gardens a glimmer,
this big event you can enjoy a sparkling
winter Wonderland all month long.
And joining us with more on what you
can expect to see is Jamie Burghart,
who has been busy with all the
crafts to give us a preview.
He is the chief horticultural
and education officer.
Also Martha Stewart here on Mr Martha.
Right, absolutely.
Good morning and happy holidays.
Happy holidays to you and I I mean,
I think people are just going
to love this event because
not only is it beautiful,
there's just there's so many like
fun family friendly activities
for everybody to enjoy,
right. So this is the 4th year of Gardens,
of Glimmer at the Waterfront,
Botanical Gardens.
And of course we do everything internally.
So we create some of our own displays,
which is something new
that we've done this year.
And then of course all the money,
all the proceeds from this special
event does remain, you know,
in the operations of us at the gardens.
As we continue to build our 23 acres
on top of the old Ohio St Dump,
right. Well, this event,
we're seeing some of the video here now.
I mean it literally is like
stepping into a winter Wonderland.
What are the all the different
areas that looking in at night.
So when you first, when
you first come in,
you'll see the Helen Harrigan Garden,
which we have oversized flowers this year.
We've added some rope lighting
and whether you call them purple
grapes or purple wisteria,
we've added those to the to the lampposts.
And then of course the water wall is
something that's always illuminated.
Don't have the water running in the winter,
obviously, but we have the
illusion of water with LED lights.
And this year we have something
called Willow lights,
and we found out that the kids like
to call them the jellyfish. OK.
So if you come to the gardens and you'll
kind of see why some people might be
calling those LED lights jellyfish,
oversized snowflakes.
And of course, probably the,
the feature is the,
it's about 85 feet long of what
they call rice cluster lights.
It's a technology out of Europe that
has lots of twinkling lights and it's,
of course, those are in arches.
So it creates this very long tunnel.
That are purple, green,
blue and red lights this year,
which is a change from last year
and of course inside the greenhouse
last year we featured red points
that as this year we were featuring
white poinsettias and cranberries.
Cranberries of course float in the water,
so we are we're playing on that and
allowing the cranberries to float
in a fountain that's in the center
of a huge bed of white poinsettias.
And for
Christmas, Garden house
sounds absolutely gorgeous.
We're seeing pictures of Santa Claus,
misses clause and the letters to Santa.
Letters to Santa are very popular of all
ages and we do have a couple of artifacts.
And it's like I did sign a waiver that I
was allowed to Courier these special notes
over here for the segment this morning.
But of course they will go back into the
mailbox to go to the go to the North Pole.
But we have lots of adults that
will also reign all right,
what they want and it's kind of
fun to just kind of see what some
adults are wishing for, you know,
in the holiday season as well.
So where is this located? Where you do
you have paper there obviously, and
where you can see this is in Mrs Claus's.
Cottage, which is in our latest building,
the Lt Leslie Botanical classroom facility.
That is where the teaching greenhouse
and the poinsettias are as well.
And so besides writing letters to Santa,
we'd have two types of crafts for the kids,
one of them which is probably
best for ages 6 and under.
This is a very simple paper ornament.
There we go.
We're going to get it on camera.
So on the backside,
the kids get to start off by doing
the 2022 gardens of Glimmer stamps.
So every kid loves to do
something official with a stamp.
And then on the opposite side.
We use water soluble craft paint and
the parent or guardian or anyone
that has a larger thumb you know
dips it in green paint to create
the three leaves of the holly.
And of course then the child using
a finger tip goes into red paint
to create the holly berries on the
memory of that ornament every
year when you put it out right.
We made that together,
a very simple one.
And then for kids that are probably
ages 7 and and and older including
tweens would be this fabric Christmas
tree and I was frantically.
Trying to put this together so it
is doable even without having any
kind of breakfast in the morning.
Tweens and older, yes.
Well, yeah, that's true.
And so this is 6 different types
of strips of fabric on a hydrangea
stick from the gardens with a
yellow button as the Topper.
So this is the other craft that is
available for kids who are visiting,
you know, Mrs Claus's cottage.
And when you're visiting you
need to go online 1st and have
a ticket. You just can't.
Yes, we have time.
Ticket entry starting at 5:45 and
then every half hour go online.
Thewaterfrontgardens.org you can
click on the events tab and then
click on gardens of Glimmer and then
obviously you select any of I mean
we're we're running from December
1st to the 30th on select nights.
So this week it would be
Wednesday through Saturday,
and then we're every night
from the 14th to the 23rd.
Santa is available in the Glazer
family education support and he's
there from now until the 23rd.
And even if Santa is not there we
have a very beautiful Christmas
tree as well as a sleigh that
if Santa happens to go out and.
The reindeer has to go back
on emergency run to the shop.
Families can sit in the sleigh for
a really nice family photo as well.
Jamie, thank you so much for bringing
everything by and telling us all about it.
So For more information and to
get your tickets, go to holidays.
A glimmer for holidays, Glimmer,
go to waterfrontglimmer.org.