US: 28th Annual La. Nursery Festival kicks off in Forest Hill
Gardening experts will be on site to answer questions. More than 50 vendors will be at the festival with handmade crafts, porch swings and chairs, yard art, birdhouses, squirrel feeders, wind chimes, pottery and garden tools designed especially for women.
Lawn equipment including golf carts, mowers, tractors will be available for purchase, as well.
The weather looks good for this weekend's festival -- and, it mirrors last year's weather, which brought people to festival in droves. They come from all over to check out the nursery wares.
"You can always find a good deal on plants and flowers when you come to this festival," Moss Bluff resident Theresa Robideaux said at last year's festival. "This is the perfect time (of the year) to set your (flower) bed or create a new (flower) bed. The hospitality here is great. I bought hydrangeas the last two years."
And, that's what keeps local nurseries coming back to the festival.
Samantha Young, a co-owner of Doug Young Nursery in Forest Hill, said her nursery has been at the festival every year since its inception.
"We set up a display to give people an idea of what they can do with their yard, and we send people to our nursery," she said. "The flowering almond has been our No. 1 seller the last four years in a row. The festival attracts people from Lake Charles, Lafayette, North Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi. People should bring a wagon when they come to the festival because they will leave with more than one plant."
Source: thetowntalk.com
