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Selby Gardens is featured weekly on ABC7 News at Noon. Tune in Thursdays to see more informative segments like this one. Help Selby Gardens win the People’s Choice Award by visiting the Gulf Coast Innovation Challenge website and liking our project – then share it via...
Selby Gardens is featured weekly on ABC7 News at Noon. Tune in Thursdays to see more informative segments like this one. Marie Selby Botanical Gardens has been proudly producing an annual photography competition since 1980. The cash prizes are awarded to talented...
Please visit our entry on the Gulf Coast Innovation Challenge Site to learn about Selby Gardens’ Living Shorelines project, one of 31 local projects vying for a $375,000 prize in the Gulf Coast Community Foundation Innovation Challenge. We believe that if this project...
By David Troxell, Botany Volunteer Just south of the historic Selby House are the iconic banyan trees, Ficus microcarpa, planted in 1939 by Grover Yancy, a beloved employee of Marie Selby until her death in 1971. In an interview, Grover remembered having to use a big...
On May 7, a team from Selby Gardens (Bruce Holst, expedition leader, Angel Lara, live plants, Dan Perales, photography and videography, and Kelvin Cooper, expedition assistant) arrived at Caves Branch Botanical Garden in Belize for their fourth trip to survey...
Selby Gardens is featured weekly on ABC7 News at Noon. Tune in Thursdays to see more informative segments like this one. Originally the home of William and Marie Selby, Marie Selby Botanical Gardens is an urban, bayfront oasis showcasing a living collection of rare...
Selby Gardens is featured weekly on ABC7 News at Noon. Tune in Thursdays to see more informative segments like this one. Adding beautiful tropical plants to large pots and in your landscape are great ways to boost your homes curb appeal. But a new trend is forming and...
Tillandsia utriculata (Bromeliaceae)
Origin: Florida and the Caribbean south to Venezuela
Epiphytes are plants which grow upon other plants, without taking any nourishment from them. Here at Selby Gardens we specialize in the study, conservation, and display of epiphytic plants, and here in Florida, people have daily opportunities to see epiphytes. […]
Selby Gardens is featured weekly on ABC7 News at Noon. Tune in Thursdays to see more informative segments like this one. The Gardens are a photographer’s paradise and the best camera, as they say, is the one you have with you. With nearly two-thirds of all Americans...
The botany team at Selby Gardens have conducted over 200 expeditions into some of the world’s most remote areas. One of the latest crusades led them into a 425’ sinkhole in Belize. Bruce Holst, Director of Botany shares the mystery of this unexplored world beneath the...