IMAGINE being in a Harry Potter movie and seeing wizards play with nature...welcome to plants inspired Christmas At The Botanics 2023, says visitor boss Raoul Curtis-Machin.
The mile-long after-dark lights trail, re-imagined for a magnificent seventh year, is now open - selected nights to December 30.
It celebrates the natural beauty of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, with spectacular new installations and returning favourites, by artists local to Edinburgh and from around the world.
Christmas at the Botanics, presented in partnership with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and creative producer Culture Creative, is one of nine illuminated trails staged across the UK by leading events promoter Raymond Gubbay Limited, a division of Sony Music.
* Tickets are for timed entry slots, with weekends and early evenings in high demand, buy now at bit.ly/CATBtickets2023.
The mile-long after-dark lights trail, re-imagined for a magnificent seventh year, is now open - selected nights to December 30.
It celebrates the natural beauty of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, with spectacular new installations and returning favourites, by artists local to Edinburgh and from around the world.
Christmas at the Botanics, presented in partnership with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and creative producer Culture Creative, is one of nine illuminated trails staged across the UK by leading events promoter Raymond Gubbay Limited, a division of Sony Music.
* Tickets are for timed entry slots, with weekends and early evenings in high demand, buy now at bit.ly/CATBtickets2023.
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00:00 [Music]
00:21 Well this is my favourite time of the year I've got to be honest it kick-starts
00:25 Christmas for me because the garden transforms into this magical fairy tale
00:30 Harry Potter landscape where you get these episodes of what I would say is
00:34 horticultural brilliance combined with lighting technology so you go into a
00:39 world where you see dandelion seeds floating above you and the Cathedral of
00:43 Lights the field full of crocuses which is brand new all rainbow colours and
00:48 they're just so unexpected to see lighting on that scale and to link it
00:53 with the gardens is just spectacular so I absolutely love it.
00:56 Dragonflies over the pond which look great and again I think that's one of
01:00 those kind of unexpected moments where you're walking along you just do not
01:04 expect to see that and and they look they look they look realistic and when
01:07 they're on a scale that's obviously out there but you look at them you think no
01:11 that actually could come to life quite easily. It's part of what we're trying to
01:14 do we don't want to just have lights for the sake of it so we're trying to take
01:18 parts of the garden, take certain flowers, certain cycles, oh it's off the scale
01:23 this is the best I've ever seen it it really is knockout. What you see when you
01:27 come in here it'll live with you all year and it'll just fill your heart
01:31 with Christmas joy I know that that sounds a bit cliched but I mean the guys
01:36 who've done this display are just they're the best in the world at what
01:39 they do and we love using them because they're sensitive to heritage sites etc
01:43 so you're getting this wow experience which if you imagine being in a Harry
01:47 Potter movie and seeing the the wizards play with nature and play with the
01:50 flowers this is what you get and every year we try to get better at the power
01:54 we're using and we use less we don't have generators now it's 90% LED lights
02:00 so we're trying to get more sustainable all the time you know if you get the
02:02 chance come see it.
02:06 (dramatic music)