Garden Events

  • A hand holds a waterlily flower towards the camera. The flower has white petals that fade into light pink and is bright yellow in the center. There are a few leaves in the background.

    Waterlily Weekend

    August 29 & 30, 9am – 2pm.
    Celebrate the beauty and wonder of waterlilies at the annual two-day festival.

    Dive into the tropics
  • A person sits at a table with a coffee cup, pens, and a journal and they are writing.

    Plant Poetry: Writers Circle

    Select Saturdays,
    June – September
    Draw upon newly discovered botanical inspiration and write poetry focused on nature—its beauty, form, and function.

    See details + register now
  • Three children have their hands deep in a garden bed full of dirt.

    Family Planting Day

    October 17, 10am – 2pm.
    Harvest and plant crops while cultivating memories at this hands on festival for the whole family!

    Get your hands dirty

Current & Upcoming Exhibitions

A painting of a bromeliad shows contrast in the leave colors and patterns.
“Oasis 4,” 2025 (detail)

Historias del aire y del suelo | Stories of Air and Soil

July 11 – October 25 | Kapnick Hall

Celebrating bromeliads and highlighting palms, this is a visual exploration of the ecological and social connections between Florida and Puerto Rico. 

Explore the Exhibit

Included with Garden admission; free for Members

Creative Residency at Naples Botanical Garden

Now Accepting Applications

The Creative Residency at Naples Botanical Garden will inspire the creation of environmental art and serve as an opportunity for artists to rest, reenergize, and engage with the community through Community Engagement Projects.

See More Details + Apply
A Living Canvas logo

Naples Botanical Garden: A Living Canvas, our seasonal theme, invites you to explore the Garden as a dynamic work of art. From container-sized vignettes to entire landscapes, you can explore how we put plants together for form and function. What you see in the ground in the Garden is not accidental; it is a result of careful curation and deliberate thought. With this theme, we’ll pull back the curtain on our creative and scientific processes.

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Arts & Culture News:

Against a striped black and white backdrop, a person wearing a patterned black and white blazer plays the trumpet.

From Concert Halls to Botanical Stages

Where can you catch winners of the Emmys and Latin Grammy Awards, Guggenheim Fellows, people who’ve…

Hues of Blues: Nature’s Rarest Shade

Hues of Blues: Nature’s Rarest Shade

Across cultures and continents, blue is humanity’s most universally liked color. Maybe it’s because the shade…

Three people stand with sketchbooks amid a lush, tropical, garden space.

A Wild Sketchbook

As the warm sun beams down and a cooling breeze drifts across the landscape, two women,…