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 […]
Conservation and Sustainability
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 […]
Native Pawpaw Flourishes After Fire
Following the Garden’s prescribed fires of 2023, netted pawpaw (Asimina reticulata), a native Florida plant that we’re tracking and tending as part of a North American agricultural initiative, is suddenly […]
Blazes Spark New Life in Preserve
Garden conservationists and FGCU students track surge in key species following prescribed burn Fire used to be a natural phenomenon in our landscape—during the first storms of summer, lightning strikes […]
Protecting Water with Plants: A How-To Guide for SWFL Homeowners
We’ve received nearly 80 inches of rainfall at the Garden in 2024—some 30 inches more than the 30-year average, according to our rain gauge, which is part of a National […]
Frog Watch Wants You to Be a Citizen Scientist
Ribbit. Ribbit. Ribbit. Actually, buzz, squeak, and chirp might be closer approximations to Southwest Florida’s frog calls, something you’ll discover if you join the upcoming Frog Watch survey on Friday […]
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