Once again we attended Brookgreen Gardens Annual "Night of a Thousand Candles" Festival.
We always look forward to this holiday light extravaganza. I did get some good photos of the garden at night, but this year both Bruce and I were a bit disappointed in the event.
For one thing, the Gardens oversold the event and it took patrons forty five minutes of stop and go driving just to get from the front gate to the parking lot.
Then the the gardens themselves seemed a lot sparser this year than last. I understand the need for pruning overgrown plants, but why not wait until after their major event of the season is over, or at least fill the barren beds with some annuals .
They had also changed the light displays so that they seemed quite similar from one garden area to the next. Bruce liked that, but I thought it monotonous. I liked it better in previous years when there were more areas with colored lights
Of course there were the usual selections of wandering bagpipers, Celtic musicians, bell ringers etc.
and some beautiful holiday floral displays
But many of those were things I could have enjoyed just as well by daylight. So I am hoping that next year the garden flower beds will be planted and lit as well as their indoor displays were this year.
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