Luis Duron, the Horticulture Special Projects Assistant, eyeballs a thick segment of a gumbo limbo tree that Horticulture Maintenance Manager Stephen Jurek maneuvers into place. “Perfecto!” he says, approvingly. Luis, […]
Botanical Adventures
What lies beneath
Mud bath, anyone? For two weeks, members of our Horticulture Team stood knee-deep in mud as they drained all 100,000 gallons of water from the lower pond in the Kapnick […]
V for Victory Gardens
Our team reported to Bonita Springs Elementary School Thursday morning, their cars loaded with seedlings—tomatoes, eggplants, okra, mustard and kale, a little over 500 in all—to offer families who’d arrive […]
Galangal, Anyone? Discover the Garden’s Bounty From the Everyday to the Exotic
Before I came to work here, I did not associate botanical gardens with fruits and veggies. Flowers? Yes. Cool trees? Absolutely. Tomatoes and kale? Nope. In my mind, those belonged […]
Love Eating Figs? We Hope This Doesn’t Change Your Mind.
To say figs are a superfruit would be a bit of an understatement. Packed with vitamins A, C, and K and minerals zinc, copper, manganese, and iron, to name a […]
The Peeling Tree and Other Unexpected Wonders of the Brazil Garden
Gravel crunches beneath my sandals as I round the bend to where the Kapnick Brazilian Garden diverges into the Preserve. Before continuing, the tree to my right catches my eye. […]
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