Winter Wonders & Events

Visit Powell Gardens during the most wonderful time of the year! The Garden is open for exploring and creating memories all year long. Join us for a family-favorite festival, fresh air, and the quiet beauty of winter in the Midwest.

Festival of Lights 2021

November 11 –
December 30, 2021

Festival of Lights is open Thursday-Sunday (and select dates to accommodate seasonal holidays) from 4-10 p.m. Start a new family tradition and come experience the tranquil light display.

Explore The Gardens

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We love October because it means peak fall color is on its way! This month, look for beautiful foliage on oaks, maples, and hickories.
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Learn more about magnificent oak trees at our October 8 class, Oak: Their Role in the Ecosystem and Human History. Click the link in bio to register.
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Make plans to visit Powell Gardens during Family Frolic: Halloween Edition (October 15 & 16). Celebrate the last weekend of Fortopia and all things Halloween at Powell Gardens. We'll have spooky animals, candy, and pumpkin carving! Learn more and purchase advanced admission by clicking the calendar link in bio.
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Happy Friday, garden friends! 💜

Our Fountain Garden containers got a fall refresh! Enjoy Princess Jade millet, Sonnet Bronze snapdragons, Peacock White kale, and Conoco Orange mums.
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Visit Powell Gardens Wednesday-Thursday (9 a.m. - 5 p.m.) through October 16, 2022. Purchase admission online by clicking the link in bio. #powellgardens

Looking for a new way to enjoy fall? Try a class at Powell Gardens! Learn more and register by clicking the link in bio.
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🍻 Garden to Glass: Beer Edition (10/1)
🍃 Oak: Ecosystem and Human History (10/8)
💛 Garden to Glass: Goldenrod Edition (10/8)
🎃 Family Frolic: Halloween Edition (10/15 & 10/16)
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As the days get cooler, pop into the Garden Galleries to see some of Powell Gardens' arid collection!
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Powell Gardens is currently open Wednesday-Sunday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Purchase admission online by clicking the link in bio.
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Temperate grasslands are disturbance and drought adapted ecosystems with over 75% of plant material existing beneath the surface. The intricate soil community supports the adaptation of plants to browsing and grazing by hoofed mammals, fire, and drought!
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At Powell Gardens, management decisions and actions within this tallgrass prairie reconstruction and throughout our natural communities uphold natural processes such as fire and grazing in addition to invasive species management. To support the greatest species diversity, management practices are rotated each year with consideration of the plant and insect community.
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As Kansas City’s Botanical Garden, Powell Gardens invites the community to celebrate life’s most special moments at Powell Gardens. Learn more about private events at Powell Gardens by clicking the link in bio.
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PLAY AT POWELL GARDENS. Powell Gardens is home to so many ways to play! Try the potting shed, sensory path, or sound maze in the Children's Garden during your next visit. The Pollinator Playground is the perfect space to climb and the Secret Trail in the David T. Beals III Woodland and Steam Garden is a hidden delight. (Of course, Fortopia is open through October 16 too.)
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Dark Forest (October 21-23 & 27-30) opens portals to worlds just out of reach. Enthralling performances, captivating music, and creative technology from @quixoticfusion collide to pierce the fabric of this universe, inviting in eccentric and ethereal creatures of the universe. At Dark Forest, the universe’s most coveted secrets are freely revealed to all those who wander.
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It’s fall y’all! Powell Gardens is the perfect spot to usher in each new season.
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Visit Kansas City's Botanical Garden Wednesday-Sunday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Click the link in bio to purchase tickets.
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Looking for a new spot for updated family photos? Powell Gardens is beautiful in the fall! Our full photography policy is linked on our “Know Before You Go” page.
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The basics: Photographers and families must pay admission, take photos during open hours (Wednesday-Sunday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.), be courteous to other guests, keep walkways clear, and not harm any plants!
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@quixoticfusion’s Dark Forest comes to Powell Gardens October 21-23 and 27-30, 2022. See you in the woods! (Ticket link in bio.)
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If you loved this year’s #fortopiakc exhibit and want to learn how to see your own creation in next year’s lineup, consider submitting a proposal. Click the Fortopia link in bio to learn more.
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📸: Reflection Fort by @multistudio. #powellgardens #fortopiakc #rfp #submissionsopen #designafort #kansascity #architecture #designers #outdoorexhibit #2023submissions #forts

Conservation Spotlight: Powell Gardens manages Ona’s Prairie, a 40-acre tallgrass prairie supporting a diversity of plant and animal species in southwest Pettis County MO.
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Pawpaws deserve the hype. 🙌
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The Asimina triloba is a deciduous tree, native to Missouri, that produces pawpaw fruit. We love having this special tree at Powell Gardens!
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Today is the last day to purchase tickets for our annual Under a Harvest Moon dinner!
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This special event to benefit Powell Gardens, chaired by @kristopher.dabner, offers a lite cocktail hour in the gardens, complete with the Equinox signature cocktail and music from @emilydixmusic. Following cocktails and a brief program is an unforgettable dinner artfully crafted by local chefs Amanda Accurso and Brandon Sharp of @rootsseasonalcuisine and Lance McFarland of @marina27steakandseafood. Join us in support of your botanical gardens!
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Tickets start at $250. Visit bit.ly/3Dv1vAF for more information or to purchase your seat!

🐕 🐶 🐩 Today is the last dog day of 2022! Powell Gardens welcomes furry friends from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Purchase admission by clicking the link in bio or at the door.
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We’re soaking up all the beautiful weather we can this weekend! Powell Gardens is open Wednesday-Sunday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Purchase admission in advance by clicking the link in bio.
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Noteworthy Tree: Ginkgo biloba. This new addition to the Conifer Garden is sourced from a surviving tree of the Hiroshima bomb in Japan (1945). Powell Gardens has the honor of caring for this and several other trees as part of the Green Legacy Hiroshima Initiative. Most will be planted at the Truman Library at a future date.
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Marjorie Powell Allen Chapel, circa 1996. #powellgardens #teenagedirtbag #botanicalgarden

Cooler temperatures make perfect weather for a Fortopia visit! This playful outdoor exhibit is at Powell Gardens through October 16, 2022. Visit powellgardens.org/fortopia to learn more and purchase tickets online.
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If you’ve tried one, let us know what you think a pawpaw tastes like! 🍌🥭🍈
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#Spookyseason is coming soon! Purchase Dark Forest (October 21-23 and 27-30) tickets by clicking the link in bio. ⚪ 🌒
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Have you ever seen or tasted a pawpaw? Haze has the scoop on the fruit from Missouri’s state fruit tree! 🍌🍈🥭 #powellgardens #pawpaw #pawpawtree #asimonatriloba #botanicalgarden #garden #tastetest

Are you interested in joining the Powell Gardens team? Full-time and seasonal positions are available at powellgardens.org/about/careers.
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📸: Staff members on a recent visit to Ona's Prairie. #powellgardens #nowhiring #kansascityjobs #workatagarden #botanicalgardenjobs

Fall classes are here, y'all! Register for an upcoming class by clicking the register link in bio.
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🌒 Garden to Glass: Moonshine Edition (9/17, 3-4 p.m.)
🐶 Dog Days (9/18, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.)
📚 Author Talk: Sara Dykman (9/22, 6:30-8 p.m.)
🍂 Interactive Nature Journaling (9/24, 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.)
🍻 Garden to Glass: Beer Edition (10/1, 3-4 p.m.)
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You’ve got this, garden friend!
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Welcome to the Wildflower Meadow, a living representative of the tallgrass prairie ecosystem. This community supports a diversity of organisms and is dominated by grasses and forbs (flowering plants).
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Did you know tallgrass prairies are just one example of temperate grasslands in Missouri? In addition to tallgrass prairies, glades, savannas, and woodlands with less than 60% canopy cover are all examples of temperate grasslands ecosystems. Temperate grasslands are North America’s most endangered ecosystem and their range spans beyond the Great Plains.
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Fortopia 2023 submissions are now open! Click the Fortopia link in bio to see the full RFP. All required information, materials, references and designs must be submitted to exhibitions@powellgardens.org by Monday, November 28, 2022.
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