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Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
If you’ve ever prepared a batch of chocolate chip cookies or a classic crème brûlée, you know that vanilla extract or beans are must-have ingredients. You probably have some in your pantry at home right now. But have you ever thought about how that baking staple makes...
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens’ Sarasota-Manatee EcoFlora Project is seeking partners and participants for this year's City Nature Challenge. The City Nature Challenge is an international effort to get people outside to document their local biodiversity. Over the...
People often think they don’t have the skills to grow orchids. But that’s not true, as Mike McLaughlin, Selby Gardens’ senior vice president for horticulture, explained during a March 23 segment on ABC7's Suncoast View. Mike was a featured guest during the program's...
Enchanted Garden Family Festival, March 26 and 27 Visitors will have the opportunity to see Selby Gardens’ Historic Spanish Point campus in a whole new way on March 26 and 27, 2022. During the Enchanted Garden Family Festival, the 30-acre campus will be...
Singer-songwriter, poet, author, and artist Patti Smith visited our Downtown Sarasota campus on February 15, 2022, for An Evening with Patti Smith. This intimate, sold-out performance and conversation focused on Smith's art, her life, her interest in nature, and her...
This year's Orchid Ball broke records for attendance and -- most importantly -- funds raised to support Selby Gardens' critical outreach and education programming! Many photos of this sophisticated evening were captured in black-and-white, complementing our current...
If you're enjoying this year's Jean & Alfred Goldstein Exhibition, Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith: Flowers, Poetry, and Light, you may also appreciate one of our upcoming workshops that complement the show. These classes have been curated specifically to help...
Ferns provide a variety of contributions to the ecosystems in which they exist. For example, they provide shelter, shade, erosion protection, chemical sequestration, and microhabitats that serve other species. In addition, there is also a high demand for ferns in the...
Marking Sixth Edition of Jean & Alfred Goldstein Exhibition Series, Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith: Flowers, Poetry, and Light Showcases Nature-Inspired Works by Two Iconic Contemporary Artists in Garden Setting for First Time Sarasota, FL – February 11, 2022...
Flowers have always held a special place in the history of Valentine’s Day. Roses and other flowers boast strong symbolism of love, loyalty…and passion! Every year on February 14, millions of people exchange flowers to express their love, and more than 250 million...