Selby Gardens Announces New Trustees and Officers
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...
Botanical Spotlight: Black Mangrove
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...
Selby Gardens announces fourth gift of $1 million in the past four weeks as the institution prepares to break ground on its Master Plan
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...
June 2021 EcoQuest: Leaping into Waterlilies!
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...
Selby Gardens announces third gift of $1 million within the last two weeks for the Downtown Sarasota campus Master Plan
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
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...
Senator Gruters and Representative Borrero’s legislation to preserve Florida’s nonprofit property tax exemption signed into law
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...
EcoFlora: Milkweed Fun Facts
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,...
Historical Spotlight: Packed with History
If you’ve ever received a box of elegantly wrapped citrus as a gift, you can thank the Webb Family for helping to inspire that pretty-meets-practical packaging. This pioneer family, who lived at the site of Selby Gardens’ Historic Spanish Point campus in the 19th...
Selby Gardens receives $1 million gift for Phase I of the Master Plan for the Downtown Sarasota campus
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (Selby Gardens) is excited to announce a one-million dollar gift from The Floyd C. Johnson and Flo Singer Johnson Foundation towards capital needs for Phase I of the Downtown Sarasota campus’ Master Plan. “The environmental sustainability...