Hollis Garden, Lakeland, Florida

Hollis Garden is a 1.2 acre free public garden on the south side of Lake Mirror in downtown Lakeland, Florida. It’s a beautiful environment filled with flowers and doesn’t seem to be crowded.

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I Love Blue Skies

Florida is known as the sunshine state. Blue skies with varying amounts of clouds is our norm. We have a dry season which is late fall and winter. Our wet season starts in May ususally and lasts all summer. Based on 51 years of data from 48 weather stations here, the average weather station in the state has 252 days during the year in which there is no rain, or 69 percent of the year. Some Florida cities here have even more sunshine than the average. St. Petersburg, Florida is known as the sunshine city. It has an average of 361 days of sunshine annually.

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