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Who could resist a scarecrow contest?
Posted Oct 6, 2009 by Kim Franke-Folstad
Updated Oct 6, 2009 at 06:50 PM
Just a quick note to remind everybody that the USF Botanical Gardens will hold its Fall Plant Festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. General admission is $5; USF Botanical Garden members and children under 12 are admitted free.
There will be more than 60 vendors and—here’s the fun part—a Scarecrow Contest. This I gotta see. Penny and I won’t have a booth, but keep an eye out for us. I’ll be pushing my hubby out the door to go fishing so I can get to this sale!
You can expect to see all the usual fabulous plants: crotons, gingers, orchids, begonias, bamboo, bonsai, fruit trees, palms, natives, plumeria, African violets, bromeliads, herbs, succulents and—just in time for a scary Halloween—carnivorous plants.
Here are directions:
From 1-275: Exit Fowler Avenue. Head east to Bruce B.Downs Blvd./30th Street and turn left. Go north one block to Pine Drive (1st light) and turn right. Go east one block to the first traffic light and turn left. Go north one block to the Garden entrance on left at the intersection with Alumni Drive.
From I-75: Exit Fowler Avenue. Head west to Bruce B. Downs. Blvd./30th Street and turn right. Go one block north to Pine Drive (1st light) and turn right. Follow Pine to left and Garden entrance is on left at the intersection with Alumni Drive.
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Posted by (Chip) on October 07, 2009
They are having a scarecrow contest this year?
what a cleaver idea! I had to miss last years Fall sale and we don’t want to miss this one. Doe’s any one know the date and place for the F.G.N.A. fish fry and auction? that should be coming up also. the price of admission is worth the fish fry alone! but the plant’s are the star of the show. That little bit of rain plus a full moon got my seed’s going! we have stuff coming out of the ground all over the place between that and the stuff we got from shell’s this is shaping up to be a very busy little garden!...“Chip”..
Posted by (Janna) on October 07, 2009
Chip, glad to hear that your garden is coming along nicely!
Looking forward to the Fall Plant Festival. I’m trying to get my husband to go so he can help me CARRY stuff…
Posted by (Chip) on October 07, 2009
You might be surprized and your husband will enjoy himself! if not they sure do make it easy with the holding pin’s and golf cart’s. I am not sure who was the master mind behind all of that is but it sure doe’s work! geting it all home that is an whole other thing! we took some friends one year and when we got to the car there
was no way I could fit every body and every thing so I had to make trip’s to make it all work and by the way the guy who realy didn’t want to go bought the most so you never know! ....“Chip”..
Posted by (Chip) on October 08, 2009
Yes Penny it did rain! thank you for some reason you can water as much as you like but seed’s just will not come up till it rains. The F.G.N.A is the Florida grower’s and nursery association and every
year they have a fish fry and plant auction at the fair ground’s the food is great! and they sell thing’s in lot’s and after you eat you can go have a look at what is going to be sold. the grower’s donate the plant’s and the money go’s to the F.G.N.A. the best part to me is these guy’s all try to out do each other some of the lot’s are huge so for the most part not really for the home buyer I have gotten some real deals this way and some time’s you can see what is new and will be at garden shop’s in the near future! “Chip”
Posted by (Chip) on October 08, 2009
That is to bad they don’t have the fish fry any more. It was worth going just for that! I missed last years so I didn’t want to miss it again thanks for the info ..“Chip”