Inside our Frida and Her Garden exhibition, you can find one of the most impressive genera of succulents, round plants known as “barrel cactus.” They are as menacing as they […]
Garden Provides Habitat for Native Orchids as Wild Populations Decline
Discover rare and endangered native orchids and get a taste of the swamps at Naples Botanical Garden. In Naples Botanical Garden’s natural areas, native orchids grow by the hundreds. But […]
Florida ghost orchid captivates British press, public
The invitation: Go to London. Team up with the world’s foremost experts on native orchids and create an exhibition for the world-renowned Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show. The challenge: Navigate complicated […]
Who was Frida Kahlo, and what was her connection to the natural world?
Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is one of the world’s most celebrated and studied artists. In a word, she is timeless. Kahlo’s life, cut short at the age of 47, was […]
This Tiny Bug May Help Contain a Huge Problem
On a bright afternoon last month, members of our team and Melissa Smith, a U.S. Department of Agriculture research ecologist, unleashed 1,500 insects to go after one of the ecosystem’s […]
Behind the inspiration for ORIGINS: Patricia Cavazos
A “match made in heaven” is how our Director of Exhibitions & Special Programs Erin Wolfe Bell described the fit between the Garden and Patricia Cavazos, the artist behind our […]
