Enjoy the outdoors indoors at Bellagio’s Summer Garden
It’s August and the hot dog days of summer make outside sweltering. Take a break from the heat and enjoy the last of summer’s abundant flowers from inside at the Bellagio Summer Garden Party.
Guests can enjoy ornate displays of flowers in the Conservatory and Botanical Gardens with specialty lighting to accentuate the flower’s best features.
As the casino lights and poker machine bells fade into the distance it is like being outside walking through a valley. Blooming bright colors line gazebos, bridges, ponds, and water features create a mosaic of nature and art.
120 horticulturists create the theatrical displays, maintaining the flowers beauty for each season 365 days of the year.
For this summer display there are 9 types of flowers, 8 varieties of shrubs, Ivy, trees and live birds. Here’s break-down in numbers: 80,300 flowers, 50 finch and 12 rosey bourke birds, 1500 ivy plants and 28 trees were used. The change over from one display to the next can take from 5-7 days. It is a 24-hour process during the change over with 50-75 people working in shifts.
Visitors can enjoy several different themes throughout the year from Chinese New Year, to the changing seasons, and holidays. The fragrance from all the displays is intoxicatingly sweet, wafting through the air into the nostrils of those who pass by.
Inside the conservatory it really feels like the outdoors are indoors. For those who can’t make it to the conservatory a live web-cam is accessible on the Bellagio website.
The Summer Garden Party is open seven days a week, all day, free to the public. It will wrap up in September, making way for the fall display Autumn Harvest.
Contact reporter Kayla Heffner at kheffner@reviewjournal.com or 702-477-3880. Follow Kayla on Twitter @kaylaheffner1
