During the holiday season, more than 200,000 guests are expected to be drawn to Garden Lights, Holiday Nights, the light display now in its 14th year at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. Behind the lights and the glitz, a team of 11 spent more than 7,288 collective hours installing lights around 150 trees and shrubs as well as placing 265,980 light bulbs in Nature’s Wonders, a synchronized curtain of light hanging in Storza Woods. Tip your Santa hat to these tree decorating comrades and be grateful you only have a few strands of lights to put up on your tree or stretch across your gutters!
“Installing this light show is a very tedious, painstaking task for our team, who work tirelessly for months to get the job done,” said Mary Pat Matheson, the garden’s president and CEO. “But once we flip that switch on Nov. 16, we all realize from the reaction on the faces of our guests, young and old, that it was all worth that Herculean effort.”
Credit: Photo courtesy of Winter Lantern Festival