Downtown Wistaria Street Festival
$ Shuttle to Wistaria Viewing should be
pre-purchased. See: sierramadrechamber.com
(626) 355-5111
Free admission downtown festival includes an auto show, crafts, vendors
and much more.
Village restaurants featuring indoor and
outdoor dining
Sierra Madre Auto Show
Wistaria Festival Beer Garden
Live Music
Food Vendors
Arts & Crafts Vendors
Includes more than 150 crafters, Live Music Venues all day, Children's Activities and Food Court in Memorial Park The Gateway... entertainment, activities and attractions include: arts, crafts, and food vendors.
Sierra Madre has the world's largest blossoming plant, a Wistaria that's called One of the Seven Horticultural Wonders of the World. The plant is over 100 years old, and a festival each year attracts thousands to see this monstrous, gorgeous specimen filled with fragrance and displaying shades of purple and lavender.
It is believed William and Alice Brugman
purchased the small plant at a local
nursery and in 1894. It has outlived the
couple and continues to spread joy with
its beauty and size today. The Wistaria Festival brings
thousands to an annual event and
celebration that showcases a living
entity that:
Contains 1.5 million luxuriant lavender
blossoms
Weights approx. 250 tons
Is more than one acre in size
Has 500 foot branches
Contains 40 blossoms per sq. foot
Experiences a growth rate around
24 - 26" in 24 to 48 hours
Is named by the Guinness Book of World
Records as the largest blossoming plant
in the world
Is named one of the seven horticultural
wonders of the world, along with the
redwood forest in Sequoia National Park,
Brazil's tropical jungle in the Amazon
Valley, Mexico's Xochimilco floating
gardens, India's gardens of the Taj
Mahal, Japan's Yokohama rock gardens,
and the gardens of Buckingham Palace
Location:
Take Foothill freeway (210) to Baldwin
Avenue off-ramp;
Go north one mile to Sierra Madre
Boulevard for
Festivities, shuttle buses, information
and parking.
Limited handicapped parking on the
southeast corner of Baldwin and
Montecito. Baldwin Ave. north will be
closed at Sierra Madre Blvd., so make a
right, go to the first stop at Mountain
Trail, go north (left) to Montecito, go
left to Baldwin.
Note: Grounds are on private property; access incompatible for people with limited mobility; call Sierra Madre Chamber of Commerce 626-355-5111 for more information. Wheelchairs, strollers not allowed.