Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Today we visited Hollis Garden in Lakeland, FL.  It is a beautiful garden set on a pond and it is completely free and open to the public.  The flowers and plants are beautiful.  Here are a few pictures of the garden and it's plants.

Here are pictures of some cute little critters.

In the afternoon we headed to Keele and Curley Winery in Plant City, FL.  The winery started with a blueberry farmer who needed something to do with the blueberries he had left over at the end of the season. It took several years to perfect their blueberry wines (they have a dry, semi-sweet, and sweet blueberry wine) and since have added many other fruit wines and fusion wines (80% grapes and 20% other fruit).  I had the opportunity to taste all of them and left with several bottles of wine.  My favorites included the Dry Blueberry, Key West - Key Lime Fusion (with sauvignon blanc), and the Peach Chardonnay.  If you enjoy fruit wines, it is a great winery to visit.