Holiday train display.Winter Display and Train Exhibit
Tastes and Colors of the Season
Train Exhibit- November 26, 2011 - through January 8, 2012
North House Winter Display & Train Exhibit- December 3- January 8
Admission: 10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.: FREE
(Closed Dec. 25 and Jan. 1)
The house is cleared and the trains are shut down for maintenance from 5:00- 5:30 p.m. daily.
Open evenings 5:30-8:30 p.m. for Garden of Lights.
(Closed evenings Dec. 24, 25, Jan. 2, 3, 5, 2012)
Admission: Weeknights: $20
Admission: Weekends: $25
Winter Display 2011: Tastes and Colors of the Season
The Winter display inside the conservatories coincides with ‘Garden of Lights’ outside and includes a garden railway landscaped with a variety of evergreens and conifers as well as colorful flowering plants of the season. This year’s plantings will include a few edible plants like chard and hot peppers which offer colorful leaves and fruits. Flowering plants from warmer regions of the world will include red-flowered Cestrum, Bouganvillea, blue and white Browallia (bell flower), and several flowering Salvias (sages). These and familiar Poinsettias are accented by the chartreuse and soft lime foliage of Monterrey Cypress and ‘Limelight’ licorice plant (Helichrysum petiolare).
All aboard! Don’t be left standing on the platform for this very popular, holiday attraction. Once again, we welcome the Washington, Virginia, Maryland Garden Railway Society to construct their model “G” scale train exhibit inside the Conservatory Winter Display. Trains weave around evergreens, poinsettias, salvias, and other flowering plants as they travel trough towns and country-side scenes.The Train Exhibit opens with the Garden of Lights on Friday, November 25 at 5:30pm and runs through January 8, 2012. The North House will remain open only in the evenings during display change from November 28-December 2. Both houses will be open during the day at no cost from December 3-January 8 from 10:00am-5:00pm.
Montgomery County Department of Parks