Community celebrates Earth Day with tree planting at Orlando Health Horizon West Hospital

The hospital helped to celebrate Earth Day in partnership with the Bloom & Grow Garden Society, a Winter Garden-based organization that spearheads community projects through gardening.

By Annabelle Sikes
| 3:21 p.m. April 26, 2024

Southwest Orange
News

Orlando Health and the Bloom & Grow Garden Society partnered to celebrate Earth Day through a tree planting Monday, April 22, at the Horizon West hospital.

Bloom & Grow, a Winter Garden-based organization that spearheads community projects through gardening, helped to plant four pink trumpet trees outside of the hospital, located at 17000 Porter Road, Winter Garden.

One of the trees was dedicated to the memory of Kari Schmitz, founder and president of Bears Who Care.

Schmitz was a beloved leader in the West Orange County community, who lost her battle to lung cancer earlier this year.

For more information on the Orlando Health Horizon West Hospital, call (321) 842-5052.

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Annabelle Sikes

News Editor Annabelle Sikes was born in Boca Raton and moved to Orlando in 2018 to attend the University of Central Florida. She graduated from UCF in May 2021 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a minor in sociology. Her past journalism experiences include serving as a web producer at the Orlando Sentinel, a reporter at The Community Paper, managing editor for NSM Today, digital manager at Centric Magazine and as an intern for the Orlando Weekly.