Spring Fever in the Garden to blossom in downtown Winter Garden

If you’re looking to spruce up your lawn and garden, the Bloom & Grow Garden Society’s annual event is the place to be.

By Amy Quesinberry Price
| 5:52 p.m. April 1, 2025

West Orange Times & Observer
Neighborhood

Downtown Winter Garden will be in full bloom this weekend during the annual Spring Fever in the Garden, hosted by the Bloom & Grow Garden Society and the city of Winter Garden. The annual event brings thousands of attendees together for two days of shopping and fun activities at the various vendor booths.

A list of vendors is available at springfeverinthegarden.org/vendors-t, and a vendor placement list shows guests where to find their favorite vendors. They include a variety of foliage — fruit and vegetable plants, flowering bushes and succulents — plus jewelry, crafts, décor, furniture, yard art, garden items and unique merchandise. 2025 Spring Fever T-shirts will be for sale as well.

At the Ask the Experts booth, guests who ask a question will receive a free plant. Available to provide answers are Bloom & Grow experts Katy Moss Warner, a professional horticulturist and former director of Disney Horticulture, and Van Donnan, avid plantsman and plant tissue culture pioneer. Ask the Experts will be located in front of the Garden Theatre.

The much-anticipated Chalkin’ It Up! sidewalk art contest will provide a colorful spectacle Saturday when artists create their nature- or garden-inspired masterpieces in six-by-six-foot squares in front of City Hall. Judging will take place at 3 p.m., and winners will be announced at 4 p.m. Cash prizes will be awarded for Adult Individual and Group, Family Group, High School Individual and Group, Middle School Individual and Group, Elementary Individual and Group, Best in Show, and People’s Choice.

At the Kid Zone, children can participate in a variety of activities such as crafts, fairy hair, dino dig, face painting, craft painting, bubble art and a petting zoo. A deejay will provide lively music, and a balloon maker and juggler also will be among the entertainment.

Additional music throughout the weekend will be provided by Rumba Brothers (9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday), The Astronomics (noon to 3 p.m. Saturday), The Sandy Back Porch Band (9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Sunday), Don Soledad (noon to 2 p.m. Sunday) and Sound Traveler Band (2 to 4 p.m. Sunday).

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Amy Quesinberry Price

Community Editor Amy Quesinberry Price was born at the old West Orange Memorial Hospital and raised in Winter Garden. Aside from earning her journalism degree from the University of Georgia, she hasn’t strayed too far from her hometown and her three-mile bubble. She grew up reading The Winter Garden Times and knew in the eighth grade she wanted to write for her community newspaper. She has been part of the writing and editing team since 1990.