This morning we joined “Bloom and Grow” on a walking tour of some of the impressive “heritage” trees in Winter Garden, mostly older trees that have been around since before most of the town existed – or sometimes a tree with particularly interesting history (planted by someone important to the town, for example). All the trees have a plaque that names them with a QR code to scan for more information!
Here’s some photos I took (and head over to their website for more information):
Winter Garden Heritage on Facebook recently posted another downtown Winter Garden picture, this time from 1998 so only about 25 years difference (see my previous “then and now” post with a 70 years difference!); this view shows the building corner where Winter Garden Wheel Works is now located; like last time I tried to get a similar picture angle to show the changes … you can see that back in 1998 the corner building was empty, the road hadn’t been bricked, and the center hadn’t been made into the West Orange trail. The tree in front of the corner has now gone, while the further back one is now taller but doesn’t look so healthy!
Every Saturday there’s a great Farmers Market downtown, and with Hurricane Ian gone, the market is setting up for another busy morning – I took photos before most people had arrived (and City Hall, too):
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