O n a recent crisp November morning, a joyful, sold-out crowd of nearly 300 guests (half of whom were first-time attendees!) arrived at Rosine Hall in their festive fall floral finery for A Writer’s Garden, a literary symposium and luncheon benefiting the Women’s Council of the Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden (WCDABG). It may have been 9:30 am, but that didn’t stop the fashionable crowd from donning their minks. (It dipped below 70 degrees, after all.) Everyone arrived dressed to the nines and ready to party. The theme? “A Celebration of Houses, Parties, & Gardens.”

Cultivate Your Garden

Guests entered through a lattice pergola, which was covered in collected baskets and blooming hydrangeas. Inside Rosine Hall, beautiful Ginori 1735 chargers (in their iconic “Oriente Italiano” pat

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