Running through Jan. 1, the illuminated attraction features more than 1 million lights and music set up throughout the 37-acre garden in Encinitas
In Ari Novy’s understandably biased opinion, the San Diego Botanic Garden is the most beautiful garden of its kind in the world. But even Novy, who is president and CEO of the 37-acre property in Encinitas, can admit it just got a lot prettier.
On Wednesday night, Novy was on hand at the local garden to proudly oversee a sneak preview of the light installation for employees, their guests and the media. He said the project was a year in the planning stages, because Lightscape’s creative team builds each client’s installation from scratch to highlight the plants, topography and other unique features of each property.
“We want to offer our customers the highest possible quality experience with the most artistic vision we could want,” Novy said. Over the past year, representatives from Creative Culture and Sony Music visited and walked the gardens to plan and map out locations where lights and sculptures would be installed. Then, the Lightscape team chose which installations would work best from among its catalog of creations by nearly 400 light and light sculpture artists worldwide.
As a nod to North County’s long heritage as the grower and creator of new varieties of poinsettia plants, there is also an installation of giant fabric poinsettia blossoms filled with glowing light filaments. They were created by United Kingdom artist Helen Davies. And San Diego Botanic Garden got a city fire permit for Chicago artist Ashley Bertling’s Fire Garden, which features more than 200 glowing wax paraffin candles in a fenced enclosure.
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