Plant Festivals

Vendors

Welcome to the Summer Plant Festival.  Thank you for your participation. This page is designed specifically for you, our vendors.  It includes an option to pay our registration fee online and links to the forms required as a participating vendor.  Vendor participation in our festival is by invitation only. If you are interested in becoming a vendor, feel free to contact our staff. 

If you are a vendor looking for vendor paperwork, reach out to our staff. 

Parking Update

There have been major changes to our parking situation since the last Festival. The large open field that we’ve used for vendor parking is no longer available as it is being developed for student athletic fields. The area immediately across the street from our entrance, south of USF Pine Dr. is also gone as it is being developed for future parking. 

We have secured off-site parking for our patrons. We will be parking you all in the GeoPark greenspace across from our entrance north. We will have signs directing you to that area, designated areas for each of you to park in, and staff on Friday, April 12th to show you how to access this area.

If you have any questions, please let us know prior to Friday and we’ll do our best to answer them. We are partially reinventing how we operate this and future Festivals and we appreciate your patience as we work through the bugs.

festival parking map

KEY DATES

  • 2/19:  Contract and Registration Fee Due
  • 4/11:  Early set up by appointment
  • 4/12: Set up Day
  • 4/13 & 14:  Festival Days
  • 4/29: Final Payment Form Due 
  • TBD: Final Payment Due* 

FINAL PAYMENT PROCESS:

Step 1: Completed Final Payment Form Due TBD (FORM ONLY; NO PAYMENT).

Email the form to: botanicalgardens@usf.edu.  

Step 2: You will receive an invoice from USF by email from the “fastpro” email address.  Please be on the lookout for this email. We will also send you a copy from via email.  If you do not see this email within one week of your final form submission, please email us to let us know. Follow the payment instructions on the invoice to pay by credit card or by check.  Please DO NOT send the payment directly to the Gardens. 

*Final payment due date is determined by the invoice. If mailing, send it to the address listed in the invoice.