Spring in Dallas is big, just like everything else in Texas.
Just as the first warm breezes usher in spring in Dallas, Texas waft in, you can smell and see this best-loved season arrive at a number of outdoor and indoor events celebrating spring flowers. Dance away winter, drink green beer and party like only the Irish do at a festival and parade. When spring arrives in earnest, Dallas heads outside to eat hot dogs at the ballpark and enjoys an outdoor music and art festival.
Spring Flowers
A half-million bulbs put on a show every year at Dallas Blooms.
A half-million spring bulbs put on a show at Dallas Blooms, the largest flower festival in the southwest. Every March, tulips, daffodils, hyacinths and azaleas turn the 66-acre Dallas Arboretum into a bouquet for the senses. Overlooking White Rock Lake and the city of Dallas, the setting itself is spectacular. Professionally-designed indoor gardens are part of the annual Dallas Home & Garden Show, also in March. DIY seminars, gardening displays and home decor displays get you revved up to tackle spring home and gardening projects. Like everything else in Texas, the event is big with 32,000-square-feet of displays, including a stage area for talks and demonstrations.
Celtic Celebrations
Dallas hosts the largest St. Patrick's Day parades in the southwest.
The North Texas Irish Festival got is start in 1982 and has been growing ever since. The festival started bringing in international bands in 1995, which now entertain a growing number of fans with some of the world's most well-known Celtic bands at Fair Park in Dallas. Held the first weekend in March, the festival features Celtic music and dance. If you want more Irish, the Greenville Avenue St. Patrick's Parade is the signature event of St. Patrick day celebrations in Dallas. The parade humbly began with 10 pick-up trucks and a few floats, but has now grown to the largest St. Patrick's parade in the southwest, with more than 100 floats and about 100,000 spectators. The parade is held the Saturday before St. Patricks Day (March 17) at around 11 a.m.
Baseball
Texas Rangers' regular season begins in April.
Spring and baseball go together like hot dogs and chips. Texas Rangers' regular season kicks off in April at the Rangers Ballpark in nearby Arlington. Rangers' fans get great views of the action in its 49,000-plus seats, as they all angle toward home plate. The franchise began in 1961 as the Washington Senators and moved to Texas in 1971.
Art and Music in Downtown Dallas
The Deep Ellum Arts Festival is a free outdoor street party with four outdoor stages and performances by more than 75 bands, as well as a juried art exhibit of decorative, visual artists and muralists. Held annually the first full weekend of April in Deep Ellum, downtown Dallas' arts and entertainment district, more than 100,000 come to check out the unusual art, local, regional and national musicians and to drink, eat and watch street performances and the pet parade.
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