Date: March 1-April 30, 2012
(All day or non-timed event)
Location: Meijer Gardens
Category: West Michigan Coastal Surrounding Areas
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Butterflies Are Blooming is Meijer Gardens' most popular annual exhibition and the largest temporary tropical butterfly exhibit in the nation. March 1–April 30, visitors can escape the Michigan winter and mingle with more than 6,000 tropical butterflies flying free in the 15,000-square-foot Lena Meijer Tropical Conservatory.
The exhibition boasts more than 40 different species from the Far East, Africa and Central America. Each week hundreds of chrysalises arrive at Meijer Gardens and are painstakingly sorted, inspected, labeled and pinned in our sealed Butterfly Bungalow. The chrysalises are then placed in a special emergence area of the Bungalow where visitors can witness through a window their magical transformation into butterflies!
Once ready to be released into the conservatory, the butterflies are placed on plants where they acclimate to the environment and gain strength before taking to the air. It's a wonderful place for photos and just one of the opportunities for visitors to observe the butterflies up-close and personal. Throughout the tropical environment, butterflies can be viewed drinking nectar from the flowering plants and feeding stations, lighting on the odd nose or shoulder, and congregating along the stream beds, as well as in flight all around.
During the exhibition, the Lena Meijer Children's Garden offers special activities. Additionally, interactive displays are featured throughout.
Location Details
Meijer Gardens
1000 E Beltline Ave NE
Grand Rapids Mi 49525
Location Contact: 616-957-1580
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Monday, February 20, 2012
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Grand Rapids Meijer Gardens Presents Christmas and Holiday Traditions Around the World
Date:November 22, 2011-Jan 8, 2012
(All day or non-timed event)
Location: Meijer Gardens
Category: West Michigan Coastal Surrounding Areas
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Excitement surrounds us this time of year as Christmas and Holiday Traditions Around the World brings the glow of 300,000 lights, strolling carolers, horse-drawn carriage rides and more than 40 international trees and displays. A new feature this year is the redesign of the Diwali display honoring the Hindu Festival of Lights, along with the enhancement of Nativity displays including the new-to-the-exhibition Polish szopka.
Enjoy the Spirit of the Season
Have fun reminiscing with family memories throughout the entire Christmas and Holiday Traditions Around the World exhibition, including the Railway Garden, or bundle up and head out to the Children’s Garden for hands-on holiday fun with several interactive daily activities.
Railway Garden
The Railway Garden, beloved by children of all ages, will again travel through lush gardens, over bridges and past buildings—all made using only natural materials. This year features five new buildings: The Lena Meijer Conservatory, Civic Theater, Fish Ladder, Covered Bridges and Temple Emanuel.
Extended Holiday Hours
December 20-23 and 26-30, 2011
Entire Facility is open until 9 pm.
Location Details
Meijer Gardens
1000 E Beltline Ave NE
Grand Rapids Mi 49525
Location Contact: 616-957-1580
(All day or non-timed event)
Location: Meijer Gardens
Category: West Michigan Coastal Surrounding Areas
Get More Details:
Excitement surrounds us this time of year as Christmas and Holiday Traditions Around the World brings the glow of 300,000 lights, strolling carolers, horse-drawn carriage rides and more than 40 international trees and displays. A new feature this year is the redesign of the Diwali display honoring the Hindu Festival of Lights, along with the enhancement of Nativity displays including the new-to-the-exhibition Polish szopka.
Enjoy the Spirit of the Season
Have fun reminiscing with family memories throughout the entire Christmas and Holiday Traditions Around the World exhibition, including the Railway Garden, or bundle up and head out to the Children’s Garden for hands-on holiday fun with several interactive daily activities.
Railway Garden
The Railway Garden, beloved by children of all ages, will again travel through lush gardens, over bridges and past buildings—all made using only natural materials. This year features five new buildings: The Lena Meijer Conservatory, Civic Theater, Fish Ladder, Covered Bridges and Temple Emanuel.
Extended Holiday Hours
December 20-23 and 26-30, 2011
Entire Facility is open until 9 pm.
Location Details
Meijer Gardens
1000 E Beltline Ave NE
Grand Rapids Mi 49525
Location Contact: 616-957-1580
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Grand Rapids Meijer Gardens Presents Chrysanthemums and More!
Date: September 16-Oct. 31, 2011
(All day or non-timed event)
Location: Meijer Gardens
Category: West Michigan Coastal Surrounding Areas
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This annual celebration of autumn at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park highlights thousands of flowering chrysanthemums in both interior and exterior venues. New this year, a spectacular display in the Seasonal Display Greenhouse features a constellation of about 30 chrysanthemum spheres suspended from the ceiling. Tours of the gardens, trees and sculpture collection are a visual delight. Harvest at Michigan's Farm Garden includes heirloom vegetables, herbs, maize, gourds and giant pumpkins.
Sponsored by:
The Meijer Foundation
Botanic and Sculpture Societies of Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
Location Details
Meijer Gardens
1000 E Beltline Ave NE
Grand Rapids Mi 49525
Location Contact: 616-957-1580
(All day or non-timed event)
Location: Meijer Gardens
Category: West Michigan Coastal Surrounding Areas
Get More Details:
This annual celebration of autumn at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park highlights thousands of flowering chrysanthemums in both interior and exterior venues. New this year, a spectacular display in the Seasonal Display Greenhouse features a constellation of about 30 chrysanthemum spheres suspended from the ceiling. Tours of the gardens, trees and sculpture collection are a visual delight. Harvest at Michigan's Farm Garden includes heirloom vegetables, herbs, maize, gourds and giant pumpkins.
Sponsored by:
The Meijer Foundation
Botanic and Sculpture Societies of Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park
Location Details
Meijer Gardens
1000 E Beltline Ave NE
Grand Rapids Mi 49525
Location Contact: 616-957-1580
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Grand Rapids Meijer Gardens Presents Peter Frampton
Date: Monday, July 4, 2011
Start Time: 6:30 pm
Location: Meijer Gardens
Category: West Michigan Coastal Surrounding Areas
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Frampton Comes Alive 35 Tour
Presale: $65 | Member $68 | Public $70
Fireworks celebration to follow (weather permitting)
Following his critically acclaimed new album Thank You Mr Churchill, Grammy®-winning guitarist and songwriter Peter Frampton performs his legendary album Frampton Comes Alive! in its entirety. The show features a complete performance of Frampton Comes Alive! along with highlights from Frampton’s catalog, including his Grammy® Award-winning instrumental album, Fingerprints.
Location Details
Meijer Gardens
1000 E Beltline Ave NE
Grand Rapids Mi 49525
Location Contact: 616-957-1580
Start Time: 6:30 pm
Location: Meijer Gardens
Category: West Michigan Coastal Surrounding Areas
Get More Details:
Frampton Comes Alive 35 Tour
Presale: $65 | Member $68 | Public $70
Fireworks celebration to follow (weather permitting)
Following his critically acclaimed new album Thank You Mr Churchill, Grammy®-winning guitarist and songwriter Peter Frampton performs his legendary album Frampton Comes Alive! in its entirety. The show features a complete performance of Frampton Comes Alive! along with highlights from Frampton’s catalog, including his Grammy® Award-winning instrumental album, Fingerprints.
Location Details
Meijer Gardens
1000 E Beltline Ave NE
Grand Rapids Mi 49525
Location Contact: 616-957-1580
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Grand Rapids Meijer Gardens Presents Huey Lewis & The News
Date: Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Start Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Meijer Gardens
Category: West Michigan Coastal Surrounding Areas
Get More Details:
Presale: $67 | Member $70 | Public $72
Tickets on sale to members 9 am April 30, to public 9 am May 14.
Huey Lewis & The News have carried the banner as the quintessential American rock band, endearing them to millions of fans and earning them the right to mark their place on the pop history map.
Location Details
Meijer Gardens
1000 E Beltline Ave NE
Grand Rapids Mi 49525
Location Contact: 616-957-1580
Start Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Meijer Gardens
Category: West Michigan Coastal Surrounding Areas
Get More Details:
Presale: $67 | Member $70 | Public $72
Tickets on sale to members 9 am April 30, to public 9 am May 14.
Huey Lewis & The News have carried the banner as the quintessential American rock band, endearing them to millions of fans and earning them the right to mark their place on the pop history map.
Location Details
Meijer Gardens
1000 E Beltline Ave NE
Grand Rapids Mi 49525
Location Contact: 616-957-1580
Monday, February 28, 2011
Butterflies Are Blooming
Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2011- April 30, 2011
Start Time: 9:00 am End Time: 5:00 pm
(Time Zone: US/Eastern)
Location: Meijer Gardens
Category: West Michigan Coastal Surrounding Areas
Here are the details:
Butterflies Are Blooming is Meijer Gardens' most popular annual exhibition and the largest temporary tropical butterfly exhibit in the nation. March 1–April 30, visitors can escape the Michigan winter and mingle with more than 6,000 tropical butterflies flying free in the 15,000-square-foot Lena Meijer Conservatory.
The exhibition boasts more than 40 different species from the Far East, Africa and Central America. Each week hundreds of chrysalises arrive at Meijer Gardens and are painstakingly sorted, inspected, labeled and pinned in our sealed Butterfly Bungalow. The chrysalises are then placed in a special emergence area of the Bungalow where visitors can witness through a window their magical transformation into butterflies!
Once ready to be released into the Conservatory, the butterflies are placed on plants where they acclimate to the environment and gain strength before taking to the air. It's a wonderful place for photos and just one of the opportunities for visitors to observe the butterflies up-close and personal. Throughout the tropical environment, butterflies can be viewed drinking nectar from the flowering plants and feeding stations, lighting on the odd nose or shoulder, and congregating along the stream beds, as well as in flight all around.
During the exhibition, the Lena Meijer Children's Garden offers special activities. Additionally, interactive displays are featured throughout.
Exhibit hours: Monday, Wednesday–Sunday, 9 am–5 pm; Tuesday, 9 am-9 pm
Children’s Activities
Ongoing during daytime hours in the Lena Meijer Children’s Garden Information Center.
Use a “magiscope” to take a closer look at Michigan butterflies and moths.
Admire yourself wearing butterfly wings.
Design a unique butterfly wing pattern out of colorful scales.
“Flutter” through the butterfly maze and identify Michigan butterflies on giant photos.
Assemble a 12-inch, 3-dimensional butterfly.
Put together wooden butterfly puzzles at the puzzle table.
Visit the butterfly book corner.
Location Details
Meijer Gardens
1000 E Beltline Ave NE
Grand Rapids Mi 49525
Location Contact: 616-957-1580
Start Time: 9:00 am End Time: 5:00 pm
(Time Zone: US/Eastern)
Location: Meijer Gardens
Category: West Michigan Coastal Surrounding Areas
Here are the details:
Butterflies Are Blooming is Meijer Gardens' most popular annual exhibition and the largest temporary tropical butterfly exhibit in the nation. March 1–April 30, visitors can escape the Michigan winter and mingle with more than 6,000 tropical butterflies flying free in the 15,000-square-foot Lena Meijer Conservatory.
The exhibition boasts more than 40 different species from the Far East, Africa and Central America. Each week hundreds of chrysalises arrive at Meijer Gardens and are painstakingly sorted, inspected, labeled and pinned in our sealed Butterfly Bungalow. The chrysalises are then placed in a special emergence area of the Bungalow where visitors can witness through a window their magical transformation into butterflies!
Once ready to be released into the Conservatory, the butterflies are placed on plants where they acclimate to the environment and gain strength before taking to the air. It's a wonderful place for photos and just one of the opportunities for visitors to observe the butterflies up-close and personal. Throughout the tropical environment, butterflies can be viewed drinking nectar from the flowering plants and feeding stations, lighting on the odd nose or shoulder, and congregating along the stream beds, as well as in flight all around.
During the exhibition, the Lena Meijer Children's Garden offers special activities. Additionally, interactive displays are featured throughout.
Exhibit hours: Monday, Wednesday–Sunday, 9 am–5 pm; Tuesday, 9 am-9 pm
Children’s Activities
Ongoing during daytime hours in the Lena Meijer Children’s Garden Information Center.
Use a “magiscope” to take a closer look at Michigan butterflies and moths.
Admire yourself wearing butterfly wings.
Design a unique butterfly wing pattern out of colorful scales.
“Flutter” through the butterfly maze and identify Michigan butterflies on giant photos.
Assemble a 12-inch, 3-dimensional butterfly.
Put together wooden butterfly puzzles at the puzzle table.
Visit the butterfly book corner.
Location Details
Meijer Gardens
1000 E Beltline Ave NE
Grand Rapids Mi 49525
Location Contact: 616-957-1580
Monday, January 3, 2011
Orchid Show
Date: Saturday, January 22, 2011
Start Time: 12:00 pm End Time: 5:00 pm
Location: Meijer Gardens
Category: West Michigan Coastal Surrounding Areas
Here are the details:
Saturday, January 22 & Sunday, January 23
Free admission to show
DISPLAYS: 12–5 pm Saturday and Sunday
SALES: 9 am–5 pm Saturday, 11 am–5 pm Sunday
Special Photographers’ Hour 11 am-12 pm Sunday
Come early to photograph some of the most beautiful and unusual orchids in the show.
Escape the cold and enjoy stunning displays of orchids and incredible orchid blooms at the annual Orchid Show, a collaboration with the Grand Valley Orchid Society. Purchase orchids directly from the growers, attend a free lecture, pose for a picture in front of the orchid pyramid and enjoy displays of floral arrangements and photography. Unique to the show are tours at 2 pm both days, an orchid scavenger hunt and an art station where kids can express their creativity (1–4 pm both days).
ORCHID TALKS:
Saturday
1 pm How to Select and Care for an Orchid
2 pm Orchid Repotting Made Easy
3 pm What’s Bugging Your Orchids?
Sunday
1 pm How to Select and Care for an Orchid
2 pm Orchid Repotting Made Easy
3 pm Orchids for Beginners
Location Details
Meijer Gardens
1000 E Beltline Ave NE
Grand Rapids Mi 49525
Location Contact: 616-957-1580
Start Time: 12:00 pm End Time: 5:00 pm
Location: Meijer Gardens
Category: West Michigan Coastal Surrounding Areas
Here are the details:
Saturday, January 22 & Sunday, January 23
Free admission to show
DISPLAYS: 12–5 pm Saturday and Sunday
SALES: 9 am–5 pm Saturday, 11 am–5 pm Sunday
Special Photographers’ Hour 11 am-12 pm Sunday
Come early to photograph some of the most beautiful and unusual orchids in the show.
Escape the cold and enjoy stunning displays of orchids and incredible orchid blooms at the annual Orchid Show, a collaboration with the Grand Valley Orchid Society. Purchase orchids directly from the growers, attend a free lecture, pose for a picture in front of the orchid pyramid and enjoy displays of floral arrangements and photography. Unique to the show are tours at 2 pm both days, an orchid scavenger hunt and an art station where kids can express their creativity (1–4 pm both days).
ORCHID TALKS:
Saturday
1 pm How to Select and Care for an Orchid
2 pm Orchid Repotting Made Easy
3 pm What’s Bugging Your Orchids?
Sunday
1 pm How to Select and Care for an Orchid
2 pm Orchid Repotting Made Easy
3 pm Orchids for Beginners
Location Details
Meijer Gardens
1000 E Beltline Ave NE
Grand Rapids Mi 49525
Location Contact: 616-957-1580
Monday, October 25, 2010
Grand Rapids Presents Christmas Traditions Around the World
Date: Monday, October 25, 2010 -January 9,2010
Start Time: 9:00 am End Time: 5:00 pm
Location: Meijer Gardens
Category: West Michigan Coastal Surrounding Areas
Here are the details:
What: Experience the most magical time of year as Meijer Gardens transforms into a world of winter magic with the glow of 300,000 lights, more than 40 captivating international trees and displays, strolling carolers, horse-drawn carriage rides and more surprises than can fit under the tree. The gorgeous holiday displays will be even more extensive this year, with additions to the nativity scenes, the Railway Garden and the Diwali display in the Lena Meijer Conservatory. Diwali is the five-day Hindu festival known as the “Festival of the Lights.” Hindus in India and Nepal mark the end of the harvest season with colorful designs made of sand, rice and flowers, especially marigolds. The Gardens Holiday Express train exhibit, a holiday favorite designed by railway garden designer Paul Busse, winds its way through three separate indoor garden and will feature five new structures: the Lena Meijer Conservatory, Civic Theater, Fish Ladder, Covered Bridges and Temple Emanuel. The new nativity scene this year is the Polish Szopka (pronounced shop-ka). The ornate structures are replicas of the most beautiful buildings of Krakow, with the Bethlehem stable scene situated on the second floor.
When:
Repeats every day until Sun Jan 09 2011 .
Link-meijergardens.org
Location Details
Meijer Gardens
1000 E Beltline Ave NE
Grand Rapids Mi 49525
Location Contact: 616-957-1580
Start Time: 9:00 am End Time: 5:00 pm
Location: Meijer Gardens
Category: West Michigan Coastal Surrounding Areas
Here are the details:
What: Experience the most magical time of year as Meijer Gardens transforms into a world of winter magic with the glow of 300,000 lights, more than 40 captivating international trees and displays, strolling carolers, horse-drawn carriage rides and more surprises than can fit under the tree. The gorgeous holiday displays will be even more extensive this year, with additions to the nativity scenes, the Railway Garden and the Diwali display in the Lena Meijer Conservatory. Diwali is the five-day Hindu festival known as the “Festival of the Lights.” Hindus in India and Nepal mark the end of the harvest season with colorful designs made of sand, rice and flowers, especially marigolds. The Gardens Holiday Express train exhibit, a holiday favorite designed by railway garden designer Paul Busse, winds its way through three separate indoor garden and will feature five new structures: the Lena Meijer Conservatory, Civic Theater, Fish Ladder, Covered Bridges and Temple Emanuel. The new nativity scene this year is the Polish Szopka (pronounced shop-ka). The ornate structures are replicas of the most beautiful buildings of Krakow, with the Bethlehem stable scene situated on the second floor.
When:
Repeats every day until Sun Jan 09 2011 .
Link-meijergardens.org
Location Details
Meijer Gardens
1000 E Beltline Ave NE
Grand Rapids Mi 49525
Location Contact: 616-957-1580
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