It’s midsummer, and a tropical storm is brewing in the Gulf. Your landscapers turn up to do emergency hurricane cuts on your palms. Should you let them? Before we answer, […]
Designing a Container Garden
Among the framed scenes in Frame & Flora, our ongoing exhibition spotlighting the beauty and functionality of our landscape, is a cluster of containers found along a sandy path between […]
Like a Botanical Game of “Where’s Waldo?”
Plant experts hope to learn more about the state’s rare orchids. First, they have to find them. The boardwalk through Audubon’s Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary attracts more than 100,000 guests a […]
Reframing Our Flora
What do you see when you look across a landscape? Do you take it in from afar, as a pretty panorama? Or do you absorb the details—the curvature of a […]
Protecting the Land he Cherishes
Lifelong Collier County resident Mike Cox shares how he gives back to his hometown through his role as the Garden’s Natural Resources Manager. Here’s a typical day at my job: […]
Tropical Plants for the Holidays
Christmas may carry a distinctly northern bias—snow and reindeer and all—but for holiday-hued landscapes and floral arrangements, turn to the tropics. In tandem with our annual winter celebration, Johnsonville Night […]