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 […]
Conservation & Sustainability
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 […]
Discover the Garden’s Solution to Dirty Runoff Water: Plants!
Recent rains hint at the wet season to come — and with it our chance to see our exciting new environmental feature in action. A few weeks ago, Garden conservation […]
A Modern Obsession with a Prehistoric Plant
Anchoring a portion of the Frida and Her Garden exhibition are several massive cycads — ancient plants that resemble palms but are in a classification all their own. These plants reportedly date […]
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 […]