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Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens was recently awarded a CSSA (Cactus & Succulent Society of America) conservation grant to safeguard a federally endangered cactus species, Harrisia aboriginum, within four counties of Southwest Florida. The species, colloquially known...
Media Contact: Lynn H. Bates, APR, CPRC VP for External Relations at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens lbates@s33944.p20.sites.pressdns.com (941) 366-5731 ext. 225 More than half the funds needed for Phase One of this three-phase, multi-million dollar project have...
Dr. Carlyle A. Luer is considered one of the most prolific botanists of both this and the previous centuries. A key founder of Selby Gardens, Luer, 95, has described and illustrated more than 3,000 new orchid species. This feat is just an estimate as the exact number...
By Dr. David Berry Many botanical gardens host orchid shows, but few if any are able to do it more completely than Marie Selby Botanical Gardens. As home to the finest scientifically documented orchid collection in the world, Selby Gardens is uniquely placed to...
Seymour, one of our two mature Amorphophallus titanum ("Corpse flower") plants fooled us in thinking he was going to create an inflorescence (flower) rather than create a leaf as its partner, Audrey, has done. Alas, Seymour won't be treating us to his odorous blossom...
Selby Gardens welcomes our new Brazilian Intern, Carla Royer, who arrived last week and will be here until October 2 . Carla is one of Selby Garden's Curator of the Orchid Research Center, Antonio Toscano de Brito, Ph.D.'s former MSc students and is now a PhD...
This month Selby Gardens welcomes new Gardens Manager, Mary Albanese, who is very excited to contribute her 22 years of landscape supervisory experience to the Gardens. Albanese comes to Selby Gardens most recently from The Florida Botanical Gardens in Largo, Fl. in a...
Dear Selby Gardens Members & Friends: I am thrilled to be writing to you with great news to share during this summer season. Over the last few weeks since the close of the much celebrated exhibition, “Warhol: Flowers in the Factory,” our team has been reviewing...
Our Selenicereus "queen of the night" cactus once again made its annual bloom well worth the wait. The conditions over the last year have been ideal for a spectacular blooming for the cactus, covering a live oak in front of our Botany building, which typically occurs...
As an opportunity to identify seagrass species and collect data for Sarasota County’s Seagrass Monitoring Programs, staff and volunteers at Selby Gardens took part in the annual bay-wide survey for the third consecutive year. Seagrass is an excellent indicator of...