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Visiting the Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve, Bahamas

Selby Gardens was recently invited to consult with a plant preserve in Eleuthera, Bahamas, the first national park on the island of Eleuthera. The Winter Botanical Retreat at the Leon Levy Native Plant Preserve on Eleuthera was held in early December 2015. During...

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Preparing for the Selby Gardens Orchid Show

Preparing for the Selby Gardens Orchid Show

In preparation for Marie Selby Botanical Gardens’ 2016 Orchid Show, Angel Lara, Assistant Director of Horticulture, visited the production greenhouses of the event sponsor, Better-Gro, a national gardening retailer earlier this month. During the site visit Lara met...

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Medicinal Uses of Tropical Trees

Medicinal Uses of Tropical Trees

Selby Gardens is featured weekly on ABC7 News at Noon. Tune in Thursdays to see more informative segments like this one. While many of the plants and trees here at Selby Gardens are admired for their beauty, in their native lands, many are also appreciated for their...

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What’s In Bloom – Epiphytes

What’s In Bloom – Epiphytes

Selby Gardens is featured weekly on ABC7 News at Noon. Tune in Thursdays to see more informative segments like this one. Something that sets Marie Selby Botanical Gardens apart from other botanical gardens is that we specialize in the research, culture and display of...

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People Behind the Plants: Dr. Carlyle Luer

People Behind the Plants: Dr. Carlyle Luer

Selby Gardens is featured weekly on ABC7 News at Noon. Tune in Thursdays to see more informative segments like this one. Marie Selby was an avid gardener who was passionate about roses. How then did Selby Gardens become a world-renowned center for orchid research?...

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What’s in Bloom: Resurrection Fern – December

Pleopeltis polypodioides (Polypodiaceae)Ā Resurrection fern (Polypody family) Origin: Subtropical Americas, including the SE United States; Africa Florida is home to dozens of species of epiphytic plants, mostly orchids, bromeliads, and ferns. The most common epiphytic...

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12 Years of Lights in Bloom

12 Years of Lights in Bloom

Selby Gardens is featured weekly on ABC7 News at Noon. Tune in Thursdays to see more informative segments like this one. This December, Lights in Bloom returns to Selby Gardens for its twelfth year, bringing Sarasota a stunning display of more than half a million...

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Chagall Exhibit Slated for 2017 at Selby Gardens

Chagall Exhibit Slated for 2017 at Selby Gardens

A Message from the President & CEO: Dear Friends: I am extremely excited to let you know about this new exhibit coming to Selby Gardens. In February 2017, Marie Selby Botanical Gardens will open the first in theĀ Jean & Alfred Goldstein Exhibition Series of...

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ā€œO Bromeliad Tree, O Bromeliad Treeā€¦ā€

ā€œO Bromeliad Tree, O Bromeliad Treeā€¦ā€

Each year the rising of the Bromeliad Tree at Selby Gardens marks the start of the holidays in Sarasota. The pattern of the lights and the plants used changes year-to-year, but always present is the excitement the tree brings to the Sarasota Bayfront. Here are a few...

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