- December 4, 2025
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A monarch butterfly was seen resting with its wings open.
Annee Nelson and Hayley Kizer attended the event with their children.
Millie Peakman and Mohab Eltehewy enjoyed the event with a monarch costume and antennas.
Jen Walker, Pamela Taylor, Jimmie Atwill and Lill Gividen from the Bloom and Grow Garden Society showed off elementary school’s works around the booth, while handing out cardboard butterflies.
Mayor John Rees, Brenda Knowles and Russell Allen smiled while the event took place.
Butafrog made an appearance at the event, entertaining children and adults.
Joyce Carcara dressed as a monarch butterfly during the event.
Gabe Preisser, an opera singer, performed during the event as children walked around the copper sculpture.
Sophia Gonzalez proudly showed her sign and love for butterflies.
Sherry Clark and Callie Fulmer showed up to the event wearing accessories like monarch earrings and a flower headband, signifying the flowers that get pollinated and by what.
Zoe and Lucy Zakhary dressed up as pollinators for the Flora’s Fiesta.
Jackie Mathis and Carol Weibley Engle from Winter Garden handed out oranges with butterfly stickers on them.
Children proudly raised signs such as “save the bees.”
The Bloom and Grow Garden Society held its annual Flora’s Fiesta event Wednesday, Oct. 8 at Winter Garden’s Butterfly Park.
Children and adults were encouraged to dress up in butterfly and bee costumes to celebrate these wonderful pollinators.
Children were seen holding signs with words like, “save the bees,” and “monarchs rule.”
Butafrog, made an appearance at the event, entertaining the children.
Opera singer Gabe Preisser performed for the crowd with Lilyanne “Pearl” Tindell of Opera Orlando Youth Company as the children paraded around the copper butterfly, Flora.
The event ended with the release of monarch butterflies, with kids and adults watching in awe.
