Lake County’s 7th Annual Landscape & Garden Fair, a free, botanical-themed festival, will be hosted at Discovery Gardens on March 24 and March 25.   The gardens are located at 1951 Woodlea Road. 

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 provides an opportunity to meet with and purchase goods from local merchants that specialize in landscaping, gardening, fruit trees, irrigation, horticulture, fertilizer and more.
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Some notable programs this year include “Colorful Landscaping with Annuals and Perennials,”  “Spring Vegetable Gardening,” and “Favorite Botanical Garden Perennials.” 

Additional family-friendly activities include the Children’s Passport, with stops at multiple gardens, the Maze Scavenger Hunt and special butterfly release. 

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’s gardens.

The fair will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday.

For a complete schedule of speakers and classes, visit www.lakecountyfl.gov/gardenfair

At first glance, Lake Dora seems far removed from glitz and glamour.  This weekend it's time for a second look.

Once every year the Central Florida lake transforms into a showcase of vintage glamour. This weekend will bring all the beauty and nostalgia of the Sinatra era onto the shores of the downtown Tavares lakefront.  

The 37th annual Sunnyland Antique and Classic Boat Festival at Wooton Park is the largest vintage boating event on the East Coast with nearly 200 meticulously restored boats in the water and on shore.

This year’s event includes a Festival of Speed that features a display of up to sixty antique and classic cars to complement the vintage boats.  Attendees can also check out tents of nautical vendors or take to the air in a seaplane ride.

The event begins Friday at  9 a.m. and ends Sunday at noon, weather permitting.  Tickets are ten dollars for the weekend. Wooton Park is located at 123 South Joanna Avenue in downtown Tavares.  Parking is available at the City of Tavares Parking garage.

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Fun is in the making  when an event combines tons of talent, competition and a bit of creative enterprise.

Those ingredients will be in abundance when dozens of live performance artists from across the US converge for the Eustis Buskers Festival on March 24.    

Busking, entertaining in a public place for donations, is sometimes credited with adding charm to intimate settings, like historic downtown districts.  Eustis’ third annual festival will provide buskers a bigger stage, while treating residents and visitors to a free event packed with entertainment.  The performances occur from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at “Busk Stops” throughout downtown.

The day-long festival will feature performers such as musicians, dancers, comedians, jugglers, mimes, living statues, artists and acrobats. Each busker will perform two 30-minute acts throughout the day.  Judges will rate each act and invite the top performers to the Grand Finale which will take place at 6:30 p.m. in the bandshell at Ferran Park.  

At the event, spectators will be given the opportunity to vote for their favorite act to receive the People’s Choice Award and the $1,500 prize. 

In order to vote, attendees must present receipts from Eustis businesses with March 2018 dates at the downtown Information Booth, which will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Every $5 on each receipt is worth one vote, up to a maximum of twenty tickets per receipt. The attendee keeps the receipt along with all the voting tickets to help name the best act of the festival.  

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Lockwood, a Seattle native, has uncovered mushrooms in the darkened forests of Australia, Costa Rica, South America, New Zealand, America and Malaysia. Some species had not been previously scientifically known.  Eventually, Lockwood refined his passion for the rarest of all mushrooms, the glowing bioluminescent varieties.  ​

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