U.S.F. Botanical Garden Plant Sale
The U.S.F. Botanical Gardens is having its Spring Plant Festival this weekend, April 11 and 12. The hours are 10:00 AM until 4:00 PM on Saturday and 10: AM until 3:00 PM on Sunday. Admission is $4 (Free for members).
It should be a great weekend to get out there and enjoy the Garden’s plant collection, even if you don’t buy anything. Many people are not aware that Tampa has a botanical garden like this but it attracts about 30,000 people a year and serves as a research facility for the university. It was started in 1969 and according to its site:
It consists of approximately 7 acres of developed gardens connected to an additional 6-9 acres of greenbelt area to the north on the southwest corner of the USF Tampa campus.The Gardens maintains a living collection of over 3,000 taxa of plants and natural habitats including: fruit trees, grasses, begonias, orchids, bromeliads, palms, aroids, gingers, carnivorous plants, cycads, cactus and succulent plants, an herb and scent garden, wetland forest, temperate forest, subtropical shade garden, and Florida upland scrub and sandhill habitats.
For more information visit the U.S.F. Botanical Gardens site or call (813) 974-2329
