Southern Blooms Festival

Rock City's Flower Festival and Gardening Event

See Rock City in full bloom at this flower-filled festival! Discover a living sculpture, revel in the old-timey music of Matt Downer, watch the kids create their own works of art, and buy a plant to start a little enchantment in your own yard. Specialty spring treats from food and retail locations around the garden will delight!

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May | 2022

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Adult

$27.95

Child

$17.95

Ages 3-12.

Hours & Pricing

May 2022 | 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

Matt Downer – returns as the quintessential musical voice of Rock City. He performs traditional old time music on fiddle, banjo, and guitar. “One of the last, best examples of the oral tradition in American folk music.” – Pulse Magazine. Appearing on Cliff Terrace at the Leap from 10am – 4pm.
The Living Fountain – perched atop the garden fountain, a live performer embodies the role of a fountain statue as the gentle sounds of falling water engulf the pavilion. Appearing in the Pavilion from 10am – 5pm.
Kids Flower Art – Multiple easels surround the fountain, encouraging kids to create their own interpretive art pieces based on this centerpiece. Available in the Pavilion from 10am – 5pm.
Make and Take – Seeds, recycled containers, and soil are provided to plant your own southern blooms inspired flowers. Available outside the Pavilion from 10am – 5pm.

Events in May 2021

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Mother's Day Lunch

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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.

Sunday, May 8
1:00pm

Adults: $39.95
Children: $23.95

*Special pricing for Annual Passholders available – $25.95 adults and $14.95 children. Checkout with your member number and email address for discounted pricing to appear.

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Featured Dining & Retail

Café 7

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

Vegan Blooming Bowl – Quinoa base topped with seasonal spring vegetables, sprouts and an edible flower
Meat and Cheese Plate – Goat’s cheese dusted with flower petals served with baguette, local honey and sliced Virginia ham formed into a rosette
Awesome Blossom – fried blooming onion served with comeback sauce
Dried pineapple “flower” filled with coconut cream
Butterfly Pea Tea Lemonade
Hibiscus Tea

Frieda’s Flower Sale

Multiple plants for sale to plant in your own garden! Available near the pavilion.

Fairy Garden Workshop

Supplies available to purchase for kids to create their very own fairy gardens.

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.