Animal Artists

When you join us for Nights of a Thousand Candles this year, make sure to visit the two indoor galleries.  The beautiful galleries are decorated by our Horticulture and Sculpture departments, but the zoo animals prepared a special decoration as well.

When we have enough time, the zookeepers allow some of the animals to create art by walking through the paint onto canvas or watercolor paper.  We use the same non-toxic paint that is used for finger painting with small children. The paint easily washes off with water.  

Our otter cleanup is super easy - we just let them go for a swim!

 Our baby alligators made some interesting abstract art.

The red/blue painting is otters, the red/green is opossum, the red is striped skunk, and the black is a ratsnake.  Our greenhouse supervisor made lovely frames and arranged the paintings in the gallery.

If you would like to own one of our animal paintings, we have some available for purchase in the Keepsakes gift shop.  Each painting is unique and original, so there is a limited supply!

Nights of a Thousand Candles

Our staff has worked very hard to transform Brookgreen Gardens into a spectacular holiday display. 

Most of our light displays are created or supervised by the Horticulture department, but all of our staff try to help out in some way.  Many departments prepare and test strands of lights.  Some people clean out our reusable luminaries or help decorate garden trees.  The zoo was responsible for decorating the garden gates.

Each light bulb is attached to the gate using a cable tie.

The zoo also decorated some of our new lighted animals.

Each light bulb was tied to a frame, and the cable ties were trimmed off.  

I named this one porcurabbit - watch out, he bites!

Daphne, our butterfly keeper, did an amazing job on the large crane.

Horticulture arranged the animals in the Children's Garden, and they look amazing!  

This fox was decorated by our butterfly admissions staff.

Our final three Nights of a Thousand Candles are December 19, 20, and 21st.  Tickets can be purchased at the gate or online at  https://www.tickets.brookgreen.org/public/auto_choose_ga.asp?area=10

Please join us as we celebrate the holiday season.