The Naples Botanical Garden Conservation Department recently began an exciting project assessing Caribbean plant species for their risk of extinction. Working with our partners in the Caribbean, we are using […]
Conservation & Sustainability
Littoral Zones: More Than Just a Natural Decoration
Southwest Florida has thousands of stormwater retention ponds. Many of us pay them no attention. But Education Programs Assistant Emily Kless sure does. In this video, Emily discusses pond littoral […]
Botanical Gardens Protect Wildlife, Too!
Seventeen pairs of eyes recently scanned our scrubby flatwoods habitat, heads down, eyes peeled, looking for displaced sand and gently sloped, half-moon-shaped burrows — telltale signs of gopher tortoises. These […]
Our DIY Privacy Fence: 9,000 Seeds, 500 Trees, and a Couple of Soggy Pairs of Shoes!
We’re getting new neighbors along the southern edge of our property. Now, if we were like most any other property owner, we’d erect a fence, a wall, or a sound […]
Exciting results from the Christmas bird count in the Garden are here
For the past few weeks, birding enthusiasts from across the Western Hemisphere have grabbed binoculars and field journals, assembled into teams, and fanned out to survey our feathered friends. The […]
Protecting Tropical and Subtropical Plants With the Caribbean and Central American Garden Network
Of all the things I’ve read in my effort to learn about this botanical world I’ve landed in, the sentence that strikes me most deeply is this: “Without plants, there […]