GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – The tradition is 11 years strong. The Botanical Garden hosted its 11th annual tree lighting ceremony Monday night.
The 50-foot tree is decorated with 20,000 lights, making quite the centerpiece.
The tree lighting commemorates the 22nd annual Garden of Lights.
Eileen Metzler, the garden’s sales and events manager, tells FOX 11 staff and volunteers spent hundreds of hours lining the garden with more than 300,000-holiday lights.
“WPS Garden of Lights is Botanical Garden’s largest fundraising event of the year. We are 100 percent community supported, non-profit organization. So special events like WPS Garden of lights help us live out our mission of education in horticulture.”.
The Garden of Lights officially opens to the public this Friday.
