Celebrate Valentine’s Day with your family’s favorite Sesame Street friends on Saturday, February 9, 2013 at Busch Gardens Tampa's Sesame Street Safari of Fun™. The holiday party is included in a lunch with the characters from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Swap Valentines with the characters and enjoy delicious food served buffet-style.

Each special event dining experience is $22 for adults and $15 for children and a 6x8 keepsake photo is included per family.

Busch Gardens is bringing fall fun to families with our Pumpkin Patch, open now through November in the Bird Garden area of the park.

First, you pick a pumpkin, then you paint a pumpkin.

Busch Gardens Tampa is bringing the fall flair to guests with an all-new, interactive Pumpkin Patch. Located in the Bird Gardens between Xcursions and Walkabout Way, guests can purchase pumpkins and decorate them as a family. Craft tables are set up inside a covered area where families can get creative and paint their pumpkins together.

From now until July 31, we are offering a FREE child's buffet with the purchase of an adult buffet -- a savings of $9!

HOURS OF OPERATION: 12:00-3:00pm

Enjoy an all-you-care-to-eat buffet along with the chance to meet your favorite Sesame Street characters. To receive the FREE child's buffet, this deal must be purchased in the park. Simply check in on your smart phone and you will see the digital coupon.

As Busch Gardens began preparations earlier this year to transform the park into “The Dark Side of the Gardens” for its 13^th annual Howl-O-Scream event this fall, the horticulture team realized that they faced a challenge:

It's hard to find heirloom pumpkins and winter squash in Tampa in October.

Our solution?

By Joe Parr, Busch Gardens Tampa Director of Horticulture

Here at Busch Gardens, we are always trying to conserve natural resources in all of our Operations.

By Joe Parr, Director of Horticulture

There are so many new attractions and fresh adventures at Busch Gardens, some people don't realize that this park opened more than 50 years ago -- and many of the trees in the park, have been here since 1959!

Join your family’s favorite characters at Busch Gardens’ Sesame Street Safari of Fun for special event dining experiences offered throughout the year.

Fall is a great time of year for many different reasons: pumpkins, cooler temperatures and holiday parties, just to name a few.

Fall is here and everyone knows that means it's time to add some autumn flair to the oversized cheetah topiary adorning your front yard. What?! Ok, ok...maybe that only happens at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay.