Spring is here, and many folks are working on their backyard gardens and front yard landscapes. This weekend is the perfect chance to enhance and expand those projects with a visit to downtown Winter Garden when the Bloom & Grow Garden Society hosts its 20th Spring Fever in the Garden festival.
After a two-year hiatus caused by COVID-19, the much-anticipated annual spring festival is back, and the garden club is ready to celebrate the event’s 20th anniversary with nearly 180 garden- and plant-related booths.
Joyce Carcara, Bloom & Grow publicity chair, said the event has a new footprint this year and will extend even farther along Plant Street.
“We had to adjust because of the outdoor dining areas in that two-block area that was really solid with booths (in years past),” she said. “We were able to move it down toward Park Avenue. In that respect, we hope that alleviates some of the crowding further down.”
“We’re going to have more plant booths this year, and we have a wide variety,” Carcara said. “We have orchids and bromeliads, plumerias, air plants, fruit and citrus trees, desert roses, a nice mix, palms, house plants — and everything garden related.”
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