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FIFA World Cup: Dallas Arboretum pays tribute to Dutch team with flower displays
Dallas Arboretum honors Dutch national soccer team
The Dallas Arboretum imports hundreds of thousands of tulips from Amsterdam every year, and will pay tribute to the Dutch national soccer team when they play in North Texas. FOX 4’s Peyton Yager has more.
DALLAS – The Dallas Arboretum is using its unique connection to the Netherlands to pay tribute to their soccer team when they play in Arlington during the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Local perspective:
Every spring, the Dallas Arboretum imports more than 500,000 tulip bulbs from the Netherlands for its Dallas Blooms floral festival.
The festival was inspired by Dutch attractions like the Keukenhof Gardens in Amsterdam, where more than seven million bulbs are planted.
Dallas Blooms is now the largest outdoor floral festival in the southwest. Abbott Ipco has been the company providing tulips and daffodils to the Arboretum since 1984, which imports the tulips months before they begin blooming in late February.
However, tulip blooms only last four to six weeks in the early spring, so the Dallas Arboretum will plant orange caladiums this summer to pay tribute to the Netherlands’ soccer team when they play in Arlington this summer.
What they’re saying:
“European culture loves gardening, so when they travel, they go and check other gardens as well,” said Megan Proska, the Associate VP of Horticulture Collections at the Dallas Arboretum.
Proska says plans are already in motion to ensure the orange caladiums are ready to go when the Dutch soccer team is in town this summer.
Nelson Darden, the National Sales Director for Abbott Ipco, says Dallas Blooms is like a little Amsterdam in North Texas. He’s hoping to see the Dutch win the World Cup this year.
“People think of England or Argentina, but I feel like the Netherlands, no pun intended, is getting their flowers.”
The Netherlands in North Texas
Dig deeper:
FOX 4’s Peyton Yager has been covering the Netherlands’ soccer team, commonly known as the Orange Legion, ahead of their scheduled game against Japan in Arlington on June 14.
Henk’s European Deli & Black Forest Bakery
Henk’s European Deli and Black Forest Bakery plans to be a hub for Dutch soccer fans in North Texas this summer.
Founded by an immigrant from the Netherlands, the restaurant plans on importing a large screen to show all the Netherlands’ matches during the World Cup
Orange Double-Decker Bus
The Dutch’s iconic double-decker orange bus will make its way to Texas during this year’s tournament.
The bus will start in Galveston before driving up I-45 to Arlington for the team’s game against Japan on June 14.
The Source: Information in this story came from the Dallas Arboretum and previous FOX 4 coverage.
We are less than two weeks away from the 2026 NBA Draft, and the Dallas Mavericks are aware of just how vital this draft is for the future of the franchise. They want to build the team around Cooper Flagg, who had a sensational rookie year, and this is their best chance to do so.
They sit with the 9th, 30th, and 48th overall picks, the last two coming in via the Anthony Davis trade they made in February. This gives them multiple swings to build around Flagg.
However, the Mavericks may not be set on picking 9th. According to NBA insider Jake Fischer, “Sources say that the Mavericks, however, have told rival teams that they are very much open for trades in either direction with their No. 9 pick.”
With how deep and talented this draft class is, it shouldn’t be that surprising that they’d be willing to move in either direction. If the right player starts falling down the board, they can jump up a few spots to secure him. Or, if there are multiple good players on the board, and there will be, there will be the option to trade down and accumulate more picks while still getting a good player.
Draft Trade Options for the Dallas Mavericks
The Dallas Mavericks will have plenty of options for trades in a few weeks, whether they move up or down, or they use their financial flexibility to take on bad contracts and add more picks. That might be the best option to explore, as they have a $20.8 million trade exception and a $6 million exception that expire in February.
They could use those exceptions to take on a larger, bloated salary and add a draft pick or two. They need as much future draft capital as they can possibly get, and if teams are willing to give up any picks in this loaded draft class, even better. A lot of teams are looking to duck under the tax aprons because the penalties are too harsh, so the Mavs can be a facilitator of some of that desperation around the NBA.
Teams like the OKC Thunder and Cleveland Cavaliers are teams looking to shed future money, so they could be an option for that.
They could also look to trade back and take a player like Labaron Philon near the end of the lottery. The Thunder and Hornets have multiple first-round picks and could look to target a forward or center like Aday Mara or Yaxel Lendeborg.
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A 31-year-old woman has been arrested in the Dallas food delivery turned ambush in March, where a man was shot moments after opening his door to an order he said he never placed, officials said.
Dallas police said a man was ambushed at his front door on March 1, around 4:15 p.m. in the 1800 block of Sedona Lane. According to the report, a delivery driver walked a bag of food to the front door while a suspect in dark clothing waited just out of sight near the garage. As soon as the door opened, the suspect rushed in and began shooting.
Dallas police said the suspect made the food order to lure the victim to answer the door and shot him. The victim, who has not been identified, was critically injured.
Officials said the suspect has been identified as Marquita Rice, 31. Rice and the victim are known to one another.
On May 26, U.S. Marshals and the Wake Forest Police Department found Rice in Wake Forest, North Carolina. She was arrested and is in custody at the Wake County jail pending extradition to Dallas County. She is charged with aggravated assault – family violence with a deadly weapon.
She is being held on a $1 million bond.
Dallas City Council will vote on potentially renovating City Hall after a vote on redeveloping the building was blocked by a judge on Tuesday. FOX 4’s Lori Brown has more from the residents who showed up to the meeting.
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