New York Botanical Garden celebrates fall with Giant Pumpkin Palooza
THE BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) – It’s the great pumpkin, New York!
The New York Botanical Garden will kick off its Giant Pumpkin Palooza Weekend starting Friday.
Artist Adam Bierton will carve one of the largest pumpkins in the world in front of garden visitors starting at 10 a.m. on Friday. The full masterpiece will take about three days and is expected to finish on Sunday.
Garden visitors are also welcome to dress in their favorite Halloween outfits to take part in hands-on crafts, eat fall-themed snacks, greet roaming characters, and enjoy the last weekend of the exhibition, Wonderland: Curious Nature.
This marks the third year of the garden’s Giant Pumpkin Palooza with Adam Bierton. Last year he transformed a two-thousand-pound pumpkin into a tentacle monster within 21 hours.
To see Bierton’s creation this year, you can purchase tickets online.
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