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  • Friday, November 23 – Sunday, December 30 – Night Lights: Winter Reimagined 2018

    Celebrate the season at Tower Hill Botanic Garden with thousands of lights, new experiences, and enchanting landscapes. This year, we are exploring patterns in nature with mesmerizing displays. Enjoy s’mores, seasonal drinks, and fun photo opportunities while creating memories for the whole family. Please note: dogs are not permitted November 24 – December 30, 2018.

    Night Lights is an annual celebration of the season held at Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, MA just outside of Worcester. Night Lights is an inclusive, secular event where visitors of all backgrounds can celebrate winter, light, and nature together. It includes two unique experiences: Day Lights (the day time experience) and Night Lights (the evening experience).

    DAY LIGHTS (the daytime experience)

    Tower Hill will be open for Day Lights Wednesdays to Sundays, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

    Included with general admission, purchase admission when you arrive on property. Free admission for members. Visitors can enjoy decorated indoor rooms, conservatories, and access to the Café, and the Garden Shop.
    The outdoor gardens and grounds provide opportunities for walks and hikes. Families with children will enjoy the scavenger hunts, the model train, discovery backpacks, hands-on Library activities, and more.
    Adult Educational trips, programs, and workshops available for an additional fee.

    NIGHT LIGHTS (the evening experience)

    Tower Hill will be open for Night Lights Tuesdays to Thursdays, 4 p.m. to 9 p.m., and Fridays to Sundays, 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.

    Requires non-refundable, pre-purchased tickets for members and non-members. Prices listed at https://www.towerhillbg.org/night-lights-2018/  Price includes walking through roughly 15 acres of dramatically lit formal gardens and surrounding woodlands, including the Fairy Light Walk through the forest that ends at the Wild Rumpus. Inside, visitors can step out of the elements to see more decorations, investigate our model train village, explore our indoor conservatories, access our Café to enjoy local fresh food, and peruse our specialty-curated Garden Shop.

    Members, whose generosity helps sustain our public garden year-round, can enter during the day for no additional fee and receive 50% off evening ticket prices. Members also receive double their discount in the Garden Shop, during their Member Appreciation Weekend, November 24-25.

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  • Friday, November 27 – Sunday, January 3 – Winter Reimagined

    Friday, November 27 – Sunday, January 3 – Winter Reimagined

    The most dazzling winter lights show in the region returns to Tower Hill Botanic Garden from November 27 to January 3 with extended hours and expanded displays. In recent years, more people than ever have been discovering Winter Reimagined and the joy of walking through the gardens while admiring the sparkling lights strung through Tower Hill’s distinguished collection of shrubs, trees, and landscape features. After strolling through the glowing gardens, visitors are welcome to explore the indoor facilities, which bring the cheer of the season to new levels.

    Winter Reimagined, now in its 19th year, has something for all ages to enjoy at Tower Hill, a nonprofit botanic garden open year-round for the public’s enjoyment. There will be seasonal food at Twigs Café, crafts and scavenger hunts for children, conservatories filled with lush subtropical plants, unique finds in the Garden Shop, outdoor fire pits, wreath making workshops, and many strings of creatively-placed indoor lights and decorations of recycled materials. And yes, the Igloo will be back for the kid in all of us to crawl inside.

    The month will also feature dozens of trees decorated trees. These 1,500 volunteer-made decorations have been created with materials reused or repurposed from gardens, grounds, and recycling bins. See how an empty soda bottle can add floral-inspired pizazz to a set of LED string lights or how catalogs and unused brochures can be reimagined into ornamental flowers with a little flare. Visitors will have a chance to marvel at the transformation of the ordinary into something magical and do-it-yourselfers are sure to find inspiration for seasonal projects

    Admission fees go toward Tower Hill’s mission to make the world a better place with plants. New hours of operation for this event only are Sundays and Tuesdays 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesdays through Saturdays 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. (The property is closed Mondays, Dec. 24, 25 and 31, and Jan. 1). Tower Hill is free for children 5 and under and is located at 11 French Drive in Boylston, Mass. Please call 508-869-6111 or visit towerhillbg.org to plan your visit.

    By JS MCElvery