Selby Gardens wins “Best of Show” in Suncoast AdFed ADDY Award Competition
SARASOTA, Fla., March 1, 2021 – Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (Selby Gardens) received a Gold ADDY, AMY Award for Best in Category and Overall Best of Show for the Orchid Ball 2020, Expect the Unexpected, invitation at the Suncoast AdFed ADDY award competition held...
March 2021 EcoQuest: Check Your Boots!
Cabbage palm boots Golden polypody growing on cabbage palmThe official state tree of Florida since 1970, the cabbage palm, or sabal palm, (Sabal palmetto) is easy to spot in Sarasota and Manatee Counties. Sabal palmetto belongs to a class of flowering plants called...
Botanical Spotlight: Cherries
Written by Shawn McCourt, Ph.D., Plant Records KeeperFigure 1. Blooming flatwoods plum (P. umbellata) draped in Spanish moss on the perimeter of MSBG’s downtown campus (Photo by Sandra Robinson)Figure 2. Chickasaw plum (P. angustifolia) in bloom along Mound Ave. at...
Botanical Spotlight: Pink Trumpet Tree
Flowers of the pink trumpet tree at Selby Gardens' Downtown Sarasota campus (Photo by Bruce K. Holst)Written by Shawn McCourt, Ph.D., Plant Records Keeper Just beside the path south of the Children’s Rainforest Garden at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens’ downtown campus...
Habit Highlight-Parasitism in Plants
Written by Elizabeth Gandy, Curatorial Assistant When we hear the word “parasite,” often the first things that come to mind are very undesirable critters like bed bugs, roundworms, or my personal favorite, bot flies. Actually, plants can also be parasites, with about...
Sarasota City Commission votes 4-1 to give final approval to Selby Gardens’ Compromise Master Plan
SARASOTA, Fla., February 17, 2021 – The Sarasota City Commission voted 4-1 on Tuesday, February 16 to give final approval to Marie Selby Botanical Gardens’ Compromise Master Plan. The approval allows Selby Gardens’ 15-acre Downtown Sarasota campus to realize its full...
February 2021 EcoQuest: Love Vine and Gall Wasps
Scott P. Egan, Rice UniversityLove vine on wasp gall on live oak!Love vine (Cassytha filiformis)In developing this month’s EcoQuest, Lookin’ for Love Vine, we came across the research of scientists from Rice University on the interaction between Cassytha filiformis...
Archaeological Spotlight: Citrus Packing
Many visitors to Florida each winter ship or take back citrus for their friends and family up North. It would not be surprising if the guests at what was then the Webb Winter Resort on the Historic Spanish Point campus did the same. Evidence implies that packing...
Botanical Spotlight: Aloe marlothii
Photo by Dave VitoloPhoto by Dave VitoloAloe marlothii (Mountain Aloe) is a beautiful succulent that displays grayish-green leaves all year long. During the winter months, it is in full bloom and at the downtown campus of Selby Gardens, visitors can find this...
Selby Gardens partners with UnidosNow to invite families to connect with nature
On Saturday, January 16 and Sunday, January 17, 2021, Selby Gardens partnered with UnidosNow to offer more than 130 families free admission to Marie Selby Botanical Gardens’ Downtown Sarasota campus. The families enjoyed the gardens and toured the...