April 8, Clymer Park, Gulfport Boulevard S and Beach Boulevard S, Gulfport. Includes a beer garden, live music, kids activities, May pole dances, costume contests, marketplace of plants, garden art and whimsical trinkets. Springfest Garden Art and Faerie Festivalįestival transforms the park into a mystical "enchanted village" inhabited by roaming costumed faeries, sprites, gnomes, ogres and trolls, and Renaissance-era characters, gypsies, wizards, minstrels and other entertainers. April 6-7, Nature Coast Botanical Gardens, 1489 Parker Ave., Spring Hill. Variety of plants at budget-friendly prices, with club volunteers on hand to answer questions, at the botanical oasis that features 22 themed garden areas. Spring Hill Garden Club Spring Plant Sale March 24, Frances Avenue Park, 5580 Frances Ave., New Port Richey. Ĭelebrate the fuzzy, sweet-tart Florida fruit with samplings, preserves and other loquat products for sale, cooking and canning demonstrations, readings of loquat-related poetry and short prose, with cash prizes for top poems, and this year, release of the Leaves of Loquat, Vol. March 25, Museum of Fine Arts, 255 Beach Drive NE, St. Included in admission: $17, $10 kids 7-18, six and under, free. (352) 345-5271.Ī spring tradition unfolds at the Museum of Fine Arts as 40 floral design interpretations by professional florists, hobbyists and members of the Stuart Society fill the museum. Weeki Wachee Senior Citizens Center, 3357 Susan Drive, Spring Hill. įantasy African Violet Club Show and SaleĪfrican violets in array of styles and options. March 11, noon- 4:30 p.m., Sunken Gardens, 1825 Fourth St. Included with gardens admission: $10, $8 seniors, $4 kids ages 2-11. Sip beer and wine while browsing through thousands of blooming orchids for sale along the garden's pathways. March 3-4, Tampa Scottish Rite Masonic Center, 5500 Memorial Highway, Tampa. $5 admission no fee for orchid show entry. The Tampa Bay Orchid Society's judged show and sale includes displays, orchid-themed arts and crafts. Saturday, Riverview Civic Center, 11020 Park Drive, Riverview. The shallow edge allows them to flock together, interact socially and display natural behaviour such as head flagging and wing marches.Plants for a spring garden at budget prices, with household items, jewelry, clothing and toys for sale, along with tempting baked goods, at sale that supports the Riverview Garden Club. It is large and deep so the flamingo can swim, wade and rest in the water. The floor is lined with rubber matting to protect the flamingo’s sensitive feet. The pool is a very important aspect of the flamingo habitat. From there, keepers take a back seat to allow the flamingo parents to raise the chicks themselves! Our egg-cellent Bird Team is always looking for ways to ensure our flamingoes have the best habitat, and an environment that naturally encourages these behaviours, giving our ‘flamboyance’ the best chance at rearing their chicks. The real egg is put back under the parents just prior to hatching. Initially, any eggs are pulled by the keepers and artificially incubated, while the flamingo parents look after a dummy egg. In 2018, our keepers could see the parents were exhibiting new behaviours – including incubating their eggs at night, and then the decision was made to let the flock rear their chicks. Since then, the flock has grown! The first chick born in 2014, was incubated and hand-raised by the keepers, until they were ready to join the wider flock. Our flamboyance (flock or group) of flamingoes arrived in 2001 from Slimbridge Zoo, England, where they had been hand raised. Broom-like plates trap and filter out tiny organisms such as shrimp and planktonic algae. Their huge tongue sucks in water from the front and pushes it out the sides of their bill. Inside their bill, it works a little like a sieve. They then hold their bill upside down in the water and swish their head from side to side. The long legs and partially webbed feet of a flamingo makes feed times particularly lively – these legs are perfectly adapted to wade into water, whilst stamping their feet on the muddy bottom, mixing up the food particles. It is found naturally in a variety of plants and animals including algae and shrimps. Their colouration comes from carotenoid pigments found in food. Upon hatching, you would be forgiven in thinking the eggs have been swapped out, as the chicks are born grey! It can take up to a couple of years for them to become pink – how you ask? It is all in their diet. It can take a pair up to 6 weeks to build (still quicker than your average house build)! In the nest, the female will lay a single white egg which the parents take turns incubating. Flamingos build a nest on the ground out of mud, small stones and feathers.
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