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Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
SARASOTA, FL – June 24, 2021 - Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (Selby Gardens) and the Duncan McClellan Gallery (DMG) in St. Petersburg present the fourth annual summer glass show In Dialogue with Nature: Glass in the Gardens July 10 to September 26, 2020 at Selby...
From April 30 to May 9, 2021, participants from all over the world came together to make this year the most successful challenge yet! Over the course of the four-day observation period within Sarasota-Manatee counties, 151 citizen scientists uploaded 4,331...
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (Selby Gardens) will soon welcome two new individuals to their governing Board of Trustees. Aaron Bellamy and Renée James Gilmore will each serve a three-year term beginning July 1, 2021, during which they will help guide the strategic...
Found in coastal mangrove forests of the American tropics and subtropics and western tropical Africa, the Black Mangrove is known for protecting the coastline from erosion and providing habitat for a variety of sea life and shorebirds. Nicknamed black mangrove because...
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (Selby Gardens) is excited to announce that a fourth, one-million-dollar gift has been secured towards capital needs for Phase I of the Master Plan for its Downtown Sarasota campus. Audrey Robbins and Harry Leopold have made the gift in...
Claude Monet was a founder of French impressionism, an avid painter documenting many people, places, the passing of seasons, and his spectacular garden. Monet’s Waterlilies are a series of paintings covering several groups of plants, from the oaks and trees in his...
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (Selby Gardens) is excited to announce another one-million-dollar gift towards capital needs for Phase I of the Downtown Sarasota campus Master Plan—this time from Susan and Zuheir Sofia. This is the third gift of $1 million announced by...
We Dream A World, African American Landscape Painters of Mid-Century Florida, The Highwaymen, will be on view at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens’ (Selby Gardens) Downtown Sarasota campus July 10 to September 26, 2021. We Dream a World explores the depth of art and...
In a victory for nonprofits statewide, today Governor DeSantis signed HB 7061, which includes legislation to preserve Florida’s longstanding property tax exemption for nonprofits. Authored by Sarasota Senator Joe Gruters and Miami Representative David Borrero, the...
Aquatic milkweed (Asclepias perennis) by Wade Collier Milkweeds are named for their milky latex, which is found in their stems, leaves, and pods and make them unpalatable to many animals. Milkweeds produce high quality nectar and depend on a variety of insects (bees,...