Photos: Sierra Madre draws crowds to its Wistaria Festival
Photos: Sierra Madre draws crowds to its Wistaria Festival
Crowds gathered in Sierra Madre on Saturday, April 12, to see a 130-year-old botanical marvel, and take part in a tradition: The city’s annual Wistaria Festival.
The festival, which in the city’s downtown, celebrates the famous Wistaria Vine, the sweetly fragrant blossoming pant. Sierra Madre’s famous plant is on private property, but people get one time a year to see and smell it. The city’s Chamber of Commerce arranges tours in the spring, and shuttles ferry fans from downtown Sierra Madre to the vine, which grows over two homes on Hermosa Avenue.
And that was very definitely happening on Saturday, the first such festival since the Eaton fire.
The city, which embraces the purple hue and less-common spelling for the landmark bloom, goes all-out with a classic car show, musical performances and offerings from more than 100 food and craft vendors set up downtown.
New this year was a Play Land at Memorial Park.
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