FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:  Nancy Rodlun
Fall Garden Tour Committee
Orange County Environmental Protection Division
(407) 836–1442; nancy.rodlun@ocfl.net
www.ocfl.net/epd; http://www.fnps.org

Orange County:  The Fall Tour of Gardens, hosted by the Tarflower Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society on Sunday, Oct.  25, 2009, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., offers an excellent opportunity to learn how to enhance the natural beauty of your landscape and neighborhood with native plants.  Florida's natives are a part of a Florida Friendly Landscape and can help you save water, energy, and money.  Florida Friendly landscapes require less water, fertilizers, and pesticides and benefit local wildlife.   There are sixteen gardens open to tour. Come be inspired.          

Tickets are $5, which includes a brochure with garden descriptions, highlights and locations. Tickets may be purchased in advance at Blodgett Gardens in College Park, Green Images Native Landscape Plants (E. Orlando), Biosphere Consulting, Inc. (W. Orlando), and South Seminole Farm and Nursery in Casselberry.  
      
Tickets will be available the day of the tour at the Florida Friendly Landscaping Demonstration Garden at the Orange County Administration Center (201 S. Rosalind Ave, downtown Orlando) and the Seminole County Environmental Studies Center (2985 Osprey Trail, near the intersection of US 17-92 and SR 419). 
                             

For more information, visit: http://www.fnps.org/pages/chapters/chapterpg.php?keyword=Tarflower.
           
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