32nd Annual Spring Garden Festival

This is Gainesville's premier horticultural event. The Spring Garden  Festival features 100 booths offering plants, landscape displays,  garden accessories, arts and crafts, educational exhibits and, of  course, foods. Also featured are  live  entertainment on Sunday.

All parking is on-site during our special events. Parking is free. To help this event run smoothly, we need guests to follow our parkers instructions to guide you to your parking location. The flow of traffic is only one way during the event. Guests who refuse to follow parking instruction (drive the wrong way, speed past our parkers etc) pose a safety hazard to our other guests and will be escorted off the property. 

Be aware that you may pass open spots/lots while being directed further to park because certain areas have handicap / small vehicle / oversize vehicle etc. designations.  Please "go with the flow" and trust that our parkers know what they are doing. When we are parking thousands of cars in a day, our parkers do not have time to stop and explain our parking process and any vehicle stopped asking questions holds up the entire line of traffic behind them. 

The Spring Garden Festival is an annual celebration held at the  Kanapaha Botanical Gardens located in southwest Gainesville, Florida.  The Festival has over 100 booths including many where patrons can  select from a variety of plants to add color, shade and beauty to their  yards and gardens. Patrons can also purchase garden related products  including tools, furniture and outdoor decorations.

In addition there  are booths staffed by local gardening and environmental organizations  where patrons can gather information about plants, ponds, pests, the  environment at large, and a variety of other topics. There are also a  number booths presented by artisans who create a wide range of fine arts  and crafts for your home or garden. No festival would be complete  without a large variety of foods available along with picnic areas where they can be enjoyed. The Festival has a stage featuring live local  entertainers on Sunday. 

The main stage is located under a large live oak tree near the  entrance to the Festival. Performances are scheduled on Sunday from 11am-4pm. Entertainment is provided by a diverse  group of performers from folk dancers to drum ensembles. Tables and  seating are provided under the tree so patrons can enjoy food from the  adjacent vendors while they enjoy the entertainers on stage.

2025 Itinerary

Sunday 

11 AM: AELEA

12 PM: Emmett Carlisle

1 PM: Lost safari Drummers

2 PM: Klezmer Katz

3 PM: Brian McMahon Band

We will have informational booths set up in our building.