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Kanapaha Fall Plant Sale & Orchid Show
Gainesville, FL · Nature
- When
- October 17, 2026
- Where
- Kanapaha Botanical Gardens, 4700 SW 58th Dr · Gainesville · FL
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
A twice-a-year institution for Gainesville gardeners, when the botanical garden opens its greenhouses and grounds to vendors selling native and rare plants alongside an orchid show. It is the kind of low-key recurring event locals build fall weekends around.
The history within reach
A twice-a-year institution for Gainesville gardeners, when the botanical garden opens its greenhouses and grounds to vendors selling native and rare plants alongside an orchid show.
In August 1990 Danny Rolling murdered five students in Gainesville over four days: Sonja Larson, Christina Powell, Christa Hoyt, Manuel Taboada and Tracy Paules.
In 1871 the sinkhole that drains this prairie clogged, and the whole basin became Alachua Lake, deep enough that steamboats ran passengers and oranges across it for twenty years.
A University of Florida kidney specialist named Robert Cade mixed water, salt, sugar and lemon juice in 1965 to answer a football coach's question about why his players never needed to urinate.
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On September 17, 2007, at a Constitution Day forum with John Kerry, a fourth-year student named Andrew Meyer was allowed a question after the session closed, asked about Skull and Bones, was pulled from the microphone, and was held down by six university police officers and drive-stunned with a taser while shouting the line the clip is known for.