{"id":190212,"date":"2026-03-13T14:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190212\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T14:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T14:22:08","slug":"the-green-thumb-festival-st-petes-annual-arbor-day-celebration-returns-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190212\/","title":{"rendered":"The Green Thumb Festival, St. Pete\u2019s annual Arbor Day celebration, returns next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">St. Petersburg\u2019s annual celebration of nature, gardening, and environmental education will return next month for its 40th installment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpeteparksrec.org\/programs___events\/events\/green_thumb\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Green Thumb Festival<\/a> will take place at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpeteparksrec.org\/parks___facilities\/walter_fuller_park.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Walter Fuller Park<\/a>, 7891 26th Avenue North, on Saturday, April 25th and Sunday, April 26th from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The weekend-long event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Hosted by the City of St. Petersburg\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpeteparksrec.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Parks and Recreation Department<\/a>, the two-day festival is the city\u2019s official Arbor Day celebration and one of the largest gardening events in the Tampa Bay area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">More than 120 garden and plant vendors will participate in the event, offering everything from native plants and tropical flowers to trees, herbs, and landscaping supplies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The festival also features environmental exhibits, educational workshops, and hands-on activities focused on gardening and sustainability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg\u2019s annual celebration of nature, gardening, and environmental education will return next month for its 40th installment.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-190212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}