With a few tweaks to your landscape, you can support a spectrum of insects, birds, and bats—and the plants that depend on them. Search online for “butterfly gardens,” and you […]
Spring Blooms, Summer Flowers
As you enter the Garden this spring, you may be greeted by a striking bloom with an equally intriguing name. The Medusa flower, Strophanthus preussii, earns its common name from […]
Stop Paying Someone to Kill Your Palms
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 […]
