The Florida Botanical Gardens is always a dazzling display of foliage and color, but even moreso during the annual Holiday Lights celebration. Credit: Cathy Salustri

The Florida Botanical Gardens is always a dazzling display of foliage and color, but even moreso during the annual Holiday Lights celebration. Credit: Cathy Salustri
Why settle for one Christmas tree when you can have the whole of the Florida Botanical Gardens alight with a spectacular display? Yep, it’s time again for Holiday Lights in the Gardens, where staff lights up the exquisite grounds with some four million LED lights. This year, old favorites return, alongside from new treats, but our favorite thing will probably remain the popcorn tree (you’ll know it when you smell it).

Florida Botanical Gardens, 12520 Ulmerton Rd., Largo | Nov. 23-Dec. 30: 5:30-9:30 p.m | $5 | flbg.org

This article appears in Nov 15-22, 2018.

Cathy's portfolio includes pieces for Visit Florida, USA Today and regional and local press. In 2016, UPF published Backroads of Paradise, her travel narrative about retracing the WPA-era Florida driving...