Southern Blooms Festival

Rock City's Spring Celebration

See Rock City in full bloom at this flower-filled festival! Discover a living fountain sculpture, engage with art throughout the gardens, and buy a plant to start a little enchantment in your own yard. Specialty spring treats available to purchase at locations around the garden will delight!

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May | 2023

5/6

5/7

5/13

5/14

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Adult

$29.95

Child

$19.95

Ages 3-12.

Hours & Pricing

May 2023 | 8:30am - 5:00pm

Timed-entry reservations recommended. Dates can sell out.
Admission to Rock City free with valid annual pass - reservations not required.

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Festival Information

Entertainment & Activities

Featuring:

Art Spotlight: Art in Nature

Local artist, Dana Shavin, will be on site Saturday, May 6, creating a large scale painting as she interacts with guests and invites them to engage in her creative process.
Rock City Artists will be working on site during the event and showcasing their work. Watch as Rock City artists create original works of art inspired by our beautiful Southern Blooms. Located in the Pavilion.
Plein air painters will be on site to create original art inspired by beautiful Rock City Gardens. Located throughout the park.

Live Entertainment

Matt Downer, the Old Time Traveler, will play his personal brand of old-time music, a very Rock City blend of Appalachian and bluegrass from 10a-4p at the Leap.
Rachel Payne will play the harp in Shop 1 from 9a-4p.

Activities

Freida’s Flower Sale will be going on in the Pavilion throughout the day.
Budding Artists! Art materials will be available at creative stations throughout the trail for guests to sketch, draw and create what naturally inspires them. Located throughout the park.

Characters

The Living Fountain will be in the Pavilion, pouring water intermittently from 10a-5p.

Events in July 2020

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Mother's Day Lunch

Sunday May 14
1:00pm

SOLD OUT

Treat Mom to a special lunch at Rock City! Tickets include a lunch, timed-entry to Rock City for the Southern Blooms Festival, a keepsake plant for mom, plus a souvenir photo.

Prices:

Adults: $44.95
Children: $29.95

Annual Passholder Prices:

Adults: $25.95
Children: $14.95
Enter member number and associated email address online for discounted pricing. Pricing valid for passholders only. Guest tickets should be purchased at the regular rate. All passholders must show annual pass card for admission.

Menu:

Miniature Quiche or Chicken Salad on a Croissant
Chicken Tenders & Fries available for children
Cafe 7 Salad
Strawberry Compote or Cheesecake

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Featured Dining & Retail

Café 7

Open 11am – 4pm (No alcohol until 12pm on Sundays)
Featuring:

Onion petals with Comeback Sauce
Catfish Fingers
Pimento Cheese with Baguette Toast
Georgia caviar with chips
Black-eyed pea hummus with pita chips
Fried Green Tomatoes with Pimento Cheese
Chicken Salad on a Croissant
Cafe 7 Salad
Barbeque Nachos
Barbeque Sandwich
Seasonal Desserts
Butterfly Pea Tea

Cliff Terrace

Open 11am – 6pm
Featuring:

Funnel cake with pink sprinkles

Big Rock Grill

Open 11am – 6pm
Featuring:

Texas Cheesesteak, Fries and a Medium Drink

Fudge Kitchen

Featuring:

“The Happy Almonds” Fudge: Chocolate fudge with coconut and almonds mixed in and coconut on top.

Starbucks

Open 6:30am – 8pm

Featuring:

Lavender Haze

What's Blooming

Rock City springs to life! Stroll through the gardens as they explode to life, filling our park with the fresh scent of new blooms. Engulf yourself in a multitude of vibrant colors and experience the trail at its botanical finest…

Rose Campion

Blooms late spring to late summer with white-gray stalks covered with magenta, pale pink, or white trumpet-shaped flowers.

Mountain Laurel

Blooms late spring, remaining into early and mid-summer. The cup-shaped flowers take on shades of rose, pink and white with darker, purple spots and markings inside the petals.

Petunia

Blooms from spring until frost and found in every color of the rainbow in solids, contrasting veins or edges, and star patterns. The flowers may be large or small, ruffled, fringed, or double.

Rhododendron

Blossoms appear from early spring to mid-summer, with colors of pure white through cream and yellow, apricot and salmon, pinks to reds, lavender to deep purple and blue.

Native Azalea

With bloom times from early spring to late summer, the colors range from white to shades of pink, red, yellow, and orange. These deciduous shrubs are types of rhododendron.