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2012 Fall Flower & Garden Fest

The 2012 Fall Flower & Garden Fest will be held Friday and Saturday, October 5 & 6, at the Truck Crops Experiment Station in Crystal Springs, Mississippi. Crystal Springs is about 25 miles south of Jackson. Hours are from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. both days and food vendors will have food and drinks available.

This is the largest home gardening show in the Southeast. Average attendance is 6,000 people over the two-day event. Admission and parking are free. The garden, grounds, seminars, and one of the tour wagons are handicapped accessible.

Here are pictures from the 2011 Event

Crystal Springs Fall Fest 2011

33rd Annual Fall Flower and Garden Fest held October 21-22, 2011 at the Truck Crops Branch Experiment Station in Crystal Springs , Mississippi .

The flower gardens which are planted to be at their peak for the Garden Fest were truly beautiful.

There were a record number of plant vendors this year in addition to yard art vendors.

The vegetable gardens which exhibited new varieties of familiar and new vegetables were visited by many planning future gardens.

The eating area and the many food vendors were a popular place all day especially around noon.

Under the big educational tent, Southern Fruit Fellowship set up a poster display of fruit and samples of fruit that the members had grown in their own backyards. The pictures generate a lot of questions which the members on hand try to answer and sometimes talk to someone who is really interested in growing backyard fruit. SFF usually signs up 10-15 new members each year at Garden Fest.

Photos Courtesy of Dr. Rick Snyder

Orlando, Fl

North American Fruit Explorers/Southern Fruit Fellowship/Citrus Expo meeting recently held near Orlando , Florida , with our hosts from the University of Florida .