Events

Shannon Woodford, this month’s cover artist and winner of The Bascom’s 2025 Dazzling Dahlia Festival Poster Design Contest, transforms rooms into radiant gardens with her luminous oil florals.

The Bascom: A Center for the Visual Arts will host the 15th Annual Dazzling Dahlia Festival from September 4–6, 2025. This community-centered program brings horticulture into dialogue with the visual arts through a weekend of public events, including a fall reception, floral installations, a juried single bloom competition, studio pottery offerings, and educational presentations.

This is the glorious season of Dahlia blossoms. Debby gives us the scoop on these Plateau charmers.

The inescapable charm of Dahlias earns them two days in the sun with Highlands’ Dazzling Dahlia Festival, September 6 and 7.

The inescapable charm of Dahlias earns them center stage honors with Highlands’ Dazzling Dahlia Festival, September 6-7. 

It’s a Garden of Earthly Delights – Carolinas Dahlia Society’s 35th Annual Dahlia Show, set for September 14 and 15 at the Village Green, is a celebration of this most transcendent of blossoms. For more details, visit carolinasdahliasociety.org.