Zilker Garden lights up with neon, costumes for Surreal Garden

If you bask seeing a acquainted plot with a twist of surreality, humor, and neon art, the Surreal Garden lawsuit astatine Zilker Botanical Garden is for you. And for me! I attended past year’s inaugural event and happily returned this year.

The Surreal Garden is simply a neon creation accumulation by Austin-based Ion Art and includes a unrecorded DJ and dancing, show artists, nutrient trucks, currency bars, and Austinites turned retired successful originative costumes. It each takes spot successful Zilker Garden’s roseate garden, prehistoric garden, and introduction garden.

I emotion a bully costume party, and the Surreal Garden delivers. This mates wearing disconcertingly realistic barn owl get-ups were my favorites. They played up the effect by remaining soundless and cocking their heads successful an owly mode erstwhile asked to airs for a photo. My hubby dubbed them “owls successful cowls.”

As you stroll done the garden, neon animals glow successful the foliage similar thing retired of a dream.

Here is different terrific costume: a mushroom lady!

She coordinates with a neon mushroom with eyes, who watches arsenic you pass.

Oh look, idiosyncratic other with 3 eyes!

Neon agave

A people-eating neon monster — an oversized anglerfish — returned from past year’s event.

As did this long-legged elephant.

Lots of Austinites “tuned in” to the Surreal Garden past Saturday aft Thursday and Friday were rained out. The lawsuit takes spot again this week connected April 13th, 14th, and 15th. A fancier VIP nighttime is besides disposable connected the 16th.

It’s a bully mode to get your hula connected and enactment Zilker Botanical Garden Conservancy, which receives 25% of the proceeds, funds that Zilker Garden uses to support and amended the gardens.

Consider becoming a ZBG Conservancy subordinate too! You get escaped admittance to the plot for a year, positive reciprocal admittance to galore different botanic gardens, including the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center successful Austin, Dallas Arboretum, and the John Fairey Garden successful Hempstead.

Projected lights connected Zilker’s gazebo bespeak successful the koi pond.

A neon hippo rises from different pond.

And a leaping hammerhead shark adds a small menace.

This cheerful couple, some wearing pinkish and rabbit ears, stood retired successful the crowd.

An Alice successful Wonderland notation suits the surreal theme. Follow the neon achromatic rabbit down the reflective rabbit hole.

Neon chameleon

Picasso-esque look overgarment turned her into a enactment of art.

More faces, of the Easter Island variety

Even the plants instrumentality connected a surreal prime nether neon lighting, similar this sago palm.

Neon oversea dragon

And different anglerfish

Uh-oh, the aliens person landed.

In the prehistoric garden, a limestone cliff partition glows with neon petroglyphs. A sub-sardine chugs on too.

Neon headwear of each kinds is fashionable astatine the Surreal Garden. Fairy and butterfly wings too. This cute mates shows disconnected both.

Neon jellyfish dangle from trees adjacent the dinosaur sculpture — who wears neon cowboy boots! — successful the prehistoric garden.

More Easter Island heads, successful conversation

And neon tigers, itching for a fight

A pistillate connected a flying food soars implicit the waterfall successful the prehistoric garden. She’s surviving her champion neon life, and you tin too. Tickets to the Surreal Garden‘s last play are disposable for $50 successful beforehand and astatine the door. Surreal costumes are encouraged.

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Add to your succulent postulation astatine the Austin Cactus & Succulent Society Spring Show & Sale connected April 15 and 16, from 10 americium to 5 pm, astatine Zilker Botanical Garden. Come bask the works show, store for unsocial plants and pottery, and enactment successful a soundless auction and raffles. Free with paid admittance to Zilker Botanical Garden.

Tour 9 decorator landscapes connected the 2023 Austin Outdoor Living Tour on May 6. Designers and builders volition beryllium connected manus to reply your questions. Cost is $33.85 for adults and $17.85 for kids aged 12 to 17. For safety, nary 1 nether 12 years of property but for carried infants.

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