Oh yes, I am going as well as some others. We plan meeting at the food court between 11:30 and noon. One of the best garden sales all year and it's free!

what is the dates?

This Sat and Sun coming, Jan 31 and Feb 1. They open at 9:00 and admission is free. They will have 70 some venders selling plants, garden supplies and garden art. This is my favorite plant sale. :o)

Hope to meet you at the food court just before noon. :o)

ah heck, and I am outa town next weekend!

bernie, ft. pierce

No one else going?

What is the address? If I can get a complete address I can maybe google a map to the venue.
Thanks

Here's the address, hope to see you there. Bring a wagon!
Riverside Park
3250 Riverside Park Dr.
Vero Beach, Fl

772-567-4602

Hi all, we will be back at GardenFest! this weekend and hope all can come out though it may be a bit cool! We have new crop of beautiful Tropical Hollyhocks ! Look for us at the back of the event next to the Master Gardener's Booth.

Happy Gardenin'
Exotic Tropical Plant of Mitch Armstrong Nursery, Palmetto FL

Just a reminder, this is the weekend! :o)

I'll be out there, my 1st visit. You mean there's going to be a food court set up at Riverside Park? Do you think there will be tropical fruit seedlings being sold? Is there a systematic way to view all the stalls? I'm actually really looking forward to this event.

Hopkins has fruit trees and bushes.
Systematic way,,,,Hmmmmm are you a CPA???LOL
OH yes there will be lots of food!

I picked up a 1gal Louise Phillipe OGR for $5, a 3 gal Seven Sisters OGR, a winter mexican avo, a 6' foxtail palm for $10. Was back home by noon.

Gary

I was at the food court from 11:30 to noon and saw Goldenpond and family. Nice to see her again. I got a number of great plants, including an acai palm and a cinnanom cassia from the native guys. It was a great day.

I am so unhappy. One of the venders at Gardenvest was so dishonest that they were spray painting a cheap bromeliad to make the color look more expensive. I bought 2 at $20 each. This has always been my favorite plant sale and I have never had a problem with any of the venders. And to think I was telling everyone to come to this sale. I left a message on the machine of the Indian River Garden Club and hope they return my call. :o( I hope to get this vender banned.

That's unbelievable. You have got to be kidding me. Spray painting a brom? It's like out of Alice in Wonderland.
How low can you go. I hope everything they own gets scale and snails!

Yes, and I am mad at myself for being dupped so. I spent $20 a piece on a bromeliad you can buy at HD for $8. If I ever see that vender at another plant sale I'll make such a fuss, they have to call the cops on me. :o(

OMG...I've heard everything now!!! That's even worse than the glitter covered poinsettias! At least MOST people know those are fake! What a bummer, Katkin. I would have probably cried to find out my great deals were fake. And I would definitely raise a fuss with the folks in charge of approving vendors. Plus, like you said, if I saw them at another show, I'd be doing something...even if it was picketing in front of their booth with a big sign.

What a crummy trick!

Marcia

Were the flowers dyed or the leaves painted? There were some Aechmea fasciata's there that had dyed flowers (in unreal colors)...The dealer even said they were dyed.

Floridays, yes it was the aechmea fasciata that the flowers were spray painted, but the dealer did NOT say they were painted! HD has those bromeliads for $8 to $10, not $20 a piece. Now that I look at it, I see how fake they look, however at the time I didn't. Do you know who this dealer was?

I really feel like I was cheated. I talked to him for some time about the color and that I hadn't ever seen any thing like it.

That is disappointing Katkin, I'm don't know who the dealer was but by not telling people up front that they were not natural is a bit deceptive.
There was another gal on a different forum that proudly showed pics of her new plants...I had to gently tell her they may not be real...
I liken it to supergluing 5 kinds of tropical fruits on a single tree and selling it without mentioning it...

I guess I am hostile about it now,(not to you, but him) but I feel it was totally dishonest. In truth, I feel stupid as well. But he was under the shade of the trees and I was wearing sun glasses so the colors didn't look so fake. He put the plants in plastic sleaves, so I didn't notice it until I got home. I pulled on one of the petals and there was the true pink color. They are hyberdizing new bromeliads all the time, and I truly thought it was something new. I even said to him how different the colors were and said "oh yes, they are different." Nothing about being painted.

The name of the vender is Miller's Way Orchid and Nursery. I haven't found an address yet. If anyone know of them please advise. Thanks.

Just called Gail Miller of Miller's Way and she said she would refund my money by mail. She said her brother was supposed to tell people they were color inhanced, but he never told me. But if I get my money back, I be happy.

Glad you got your money back. 'Color Enhanced', what a crock. That is fraud. You should file a complaint with the state of Florida.