Selby Gardens to Host the 40th Annual Juried Photographic Exhibition Virtually
SARASOTA, FL – August 3, 2020 - Marie Selby Botanical Gardens’ (Selby Gardens) 40th Annual Juried Photographic Exhibition and Sale will be virtual this year. In partnership with the Observer Media Group, the virtual exhibition will be viewable August 27 to September...
Selby Gardens to present third annual glass exhibition “In Dialogue with Nature: Glass in the Gardens”
SARASOTA, FL – July 29, 2020 - Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (Selby Gardens) and the Duncan McClellan Gallery (DMG) in St. Petersburg present the third annual summer glass show In Dialogue with Nature: Glass in the Gardens August 8 to September 20, 2020 at Selby...
Selby Gardens receives $600,000 state appropriation to house its world-class scientific collections in hurricane-resilient facilities
SARASOTA, FL – July 2, 2020 - The state of Florida has included $600,000 in its new budget to support Marie Selby Botanical Gardens’ efforts to house its world-class scientific collections in facilities that will protect them from hurricanes and major storms. The...
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens to showcase Pop Art icon Roy Lichtenstein’s take on Monet’s Garden
SARASOTA, Fla. – In his late career, Roy Lichtenstein’s famed primary colors and comic book imagery gave way to subtler explorations of color, light and materials. However, his interest in reinterpreting the work of celebrated artists remained. In a new indoor and...
Selby Gardens announces updates to the Downtown campus summer exhibition schedule – Salvador Dali: Gardens of the Mind exhibition extended through July 26
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (Selby Gardens) is pleased to announce updates to the summer exhibition schedule at the Downtown Sarasota campus. Selby Gardens will extend Salvador Dali: Gardens of the Mind through July 26, 2020. The exhibition features the bold...
Wild Coffee, a Florida Native Spring Beauty
Spring is sprung and with it, an iconic plant of the Florida landscape is bursting with flowers. Wild coffee (Psychotria nervosa) is one of the most widely cultivated of Florida’s native plants. Tolerance of both shade and our relatively poor native soil make it a...
Selby Gardens’ Botany Volunteers Work from Home
It is a win/win situation to have our Botany Department volunteers being able to continue their valuable work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. They are helping with a multi-institutional project funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, known as...
Faces of Selby Garden Horticulture Team
Since Covid 19 shut down Selby gardens on March 17 you can rest assured that the Horticulture staff are still on site, hard at work caring for both our gardens and greenhouse collections. The Gardens staff have been busy with spring pruning, planting of seasonal...
May EcoFlora EcoQuest Challenge
May EcoQuest Challenge As part of the EcoFlora Project, we are including fun monthly "Challenges" to enlist citizens in documenting plants in our area. May’s challenge is the Tilly Tally. Tillandsias (fondly called “tillys” here or, often, “air plants”) are in...
Selby Gardens selected as one of five major public gardens nationwide to collaborate on the EcoFlora Project with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (Selby Gardens) is collaborating with the New York Botanical Garden, Chicago Botanic Garden, Denver Botanic Garden, and Desert Botanical Garden to expand New York Botanical Garden’s pioneering EcoFlora Project. A grant from the Institute...