Selby Gardens Completes Botanical Inventory of Myakka Headwaters Preserve
Earlier this year, Selby Gardens’ botany team completed a botanical inventory of Myakka Headwaters Preserve, an ecologically important area in Manatee County where seven creeks converge into the Myakka River. Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast acquired...
Submissions Open for Selby Gardens’ Virtual 42nd Annual Juried Photo Exhibition
Submissions are now being accepted for Marie Selby Botanical Gardens’ 42nd Annual Juried Photographic Exhibition. Amateur photographers are invited to submit digital photos taken at either of Selby Gardens’ two campuses in five different categories. Submissions will...
Announcing the 2023 Jean & Alfred Goldstein Exhibition – Tiffany: The Pursuit of Beauty in Nature
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens will present Tiffany: The Pursuit of Beauty in Nature as the 2023 installment of its Jean & Alfred Goldstein Exhibition Series. Opening February 12, 2023, the exhibition will showcase the creativity and innovation of the...
Flora Imaginaria Opens July 16 at Selby Gardens
We're excited to announce our summer exhibition! Flora Imaginaria: The Flower in Contemporary Photography officially opens Saturday, July 16, at our Sarasota campus. The indoor/outdoor exhibition, co-organized with the Foundation for the Exhibition of...
“Hermitage Sunsets @ Selby Gardens” Continues for Another Year
Hermitage Sunsets @ Selby Gardens produced in collaboration with the Hermitage Artist Retreat continues into its third year at our Downtown Sarasota campus! The outdoor series features performances and explorations of works-in-progress by Hermitage...
Walter Gilbert Named Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion
Selby Gardens has promoted Walter Gilbert to the position of Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion. In his expanded role, Gilbert will guide Selby Gardens’ pursuit of diversity and inclusion goals, including further diversifying its workforce and improving...
July-August EcoQuest: “Going for Morning Glory”
 The theme for our July-August EcoQuest is Convolvulaceae, otherwise known as the morning glory family! This family of plants has over 1,600 species spread across 59 genera that include trees, shrubs, and herbs as well as the vines that most of us are familiar with....
Selby Gardens Announces Three New Trustees
The Board of Trustees of Marie Selby Botanical Gardens has elected three new members. Attorney Morgan Bentley, journalist Mary Braxton-Joseph, and philanthropist Audrey Robbins each will serve a three-year term on the Board. Their Board service began on July 1....
The World Comes to Selby Gardens
Attendees of the 2022 World Bromeliad Conference got a bonus with this June’s event: access to one of the best scientifically documented collections of bromeliads in the world, right here at Selby Gardens! The biannual show, put on by the Bromeliad Society...
Talking Mustards with Dr. Tatiana Arias
Happy June, EcoFlora participants! We are now in the second half of our May-June Ecoquest, “Mustard Madness!” To learn more about mustards and why we should be mad for them, the EcoFlora team looked to one of the expert botanists here at Marie Selby Botanical...