Bay cedar (Suriana maritima) is an important native coastal species. Hardy and dense, the shrub protects from shoreline erosion, provides a larval food source for two types of butterflies, and […]
Conservation & Sustainability
Saving the Last of Their Kind
Our reputation for moving trees like furniture came from the hundreds of epic relocations or “saves,” if you will, from the early years of building our gardens. This was back […]
Rebuilding the Dunes, Protecting the Coast
Naples Botanical Garden and Florida Gulf Coast University study the workings of beach dunes and develop a restoration formula. The plant is a botanical jackpot. Vice President of Conservation Chad […]
Going Beyond the Home Improvement Store
Jessica DeYoung, the Garden’s Conservation Horticulture Manager, explains why she collects native plant seeds for our seed bank and, someday, your yard I’m wandering down an animal trail, weaving between […]
Saving a Spider That’s Anything but Spooky
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 […]
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 […]
