Talk about a plant with a sense of place. Hymenocallis puntagordensis is a flowering perennial found only in … have you guessed … Charlotte County, the region north of us […]
Conservation & Sustainability
Documenting a Prescribed Burn
Being Naples Botanical Garden’s staff photographer and videographer is a dream job. I get to do a lot of different stuff, including chronicling Garden staff’s wide-ranging projects, taking portraits of […]
Dead Tree Sustains New Life
Got a dead tree in your backyard? Don’t automatically add it to the horticultural waste pile. Natural Resources Associate Mike Cox offers a better idea. Cox recently planted a 4-foot-tall […]
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 […]
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 […]
Regeneration Through a Prescribed Fire
As you walk along the lake trail or the wooded pathways near the Sönne Family Ghost Orchid Boardwalk, you’ll come across a charred patch of forest, which will probably spark […]
