BOYLSTON, Mass. - The theme for this year’s Night Lights is “Color Cascade." New England Botanic Garden is excited to welcome thousands of guests for another season of exploring their property and getting lost in the lights on Tower Hill. 

“As we've been opening the newer gardens, we've been expanding out into those spaces as well," Dawn Davies said. "So, we're up to about 250,000 individual lights.”

Formal gardens manager Dawn Davies says a lot of work and planning goes into lighting up Night Lights at New England Botanic Garden and it’s grown every year.

“It's had a couple of iterations since I've started. We started off as Holly Days and it was more of an indoor experience during the daytime," Davies said. "It became more popular as the years went along, so we decided to dip our toes into outdoor lighting.”

The botanic garden said they welcomed about 66,000 guests last year to come see the display and this year could break their record yet again with more tickets available.

Davies said it’s a great way to take a break from the stresses of the holiday season.

“Even in times where you might be sort of feeling down about stuff," Davies said, "coming to visit is a nice pick me up.”

And it's all about horticulture; Davies said their team takes pride in highlighting their plants and making the gardens shine through the holidays.

“I invite everyone to come to the Botanic Garden because that's what we are at the root of the things; is to highlight the plant material and maybe bring people that wouldn't normally come to a botanic garden to sort of come and visit and sort of appreciate nature as they're walking around," Davies said. "There's probably about three miles worth of walking paths to sort of go through. And there's a lot of, lot of lights.”

Night Lights runs 4-10 p.m. through Jan. 5.