![The University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Milton Campus and Pensacola State College will sponsor the Spring Festival of Flowers. The event will feature arts and crafts, plants, flowers and herbs, garden supplies, locally grown vegetables, and food and music. [Special to the Press Gazette]](http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ghows-DA-4a8b3794-0a61-587c-e053-0100007f0079-b5e51ac7.jpeg)
MILTON — The University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Science Milton Campus and Pensacola State College are sponsoring the Spring Festival of Flowers.
The event is set 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 7 and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 8 and 9 at the UF-IFAS and Pensacola State College Milton Campus, 5988 Highway 90, Building 4900 in Milton.
The festival will feature arts and crafts, plants, flowers and herbs, garden supplies, locally grown vegetables, and food and music.
Educational booths will feature UF-IFAS Extension agents answering questions about plants and flowers, eclectic gardening, good bugs and bad bugs, sprinklers and air layering demonstrations, and experts offering advice and hands-on demonstrations on wildlife for the backyard.
The Milton Garden Club will sponsor a flower show; in addition, the festival features plant nurseries and a UF student-club plant sale. The student club will feature a variety of plants such as hallmark bulbine, Bolivian sunset and indigo spires salvia.
Contact Robin Vickers at rvickers@ufl.edu or 983-7134 for more information on the event.
This article originally appeared on Santa Rosa Press Gazette: Spring Festival of Flowers returns