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        Both campuses are open daily:
        10 a.m. - 5 p.m.*
        *closed Christmas Day
      - Downtown Sarasota Campus
        1534 Mound Street
        Sarasota, FL 34236
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        941.366.5731
        
        Historic Spanish Point Campus
        401 North Tamiami Trail
        Osprey, FL 34229
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  - Visit Downtown Sarasota Campus – Information to Plan Your Visit
  - Visit Historic Spanish Point Campus – Information to Plan Your Visit
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    - Wednesday July 30
      
      9:30 am - 10:30 am Yoga in the Gardens
      
      Thursday July 31
      
      10:30 am - 12:00 pm Yoga at Historic Spanish Point
      
      Saturday August 2
      
      9:30 am - 10:30 am Yoga in the Gardens
      
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      - Please check back soon to see the youth and family programs being developed for the Historic Spanish Point campus.
    - Sarasota-Manatee EcoFlora ProjectUsing your smartphone or a camera, snap a picture of a plant in Sarasota or Manatee county and upload it to iNaturalist. Each month, we will feature a new EcoQuest Challenge to focus on different species and keep things exciting!
  - Program Calendar – See a calendar of all of the upcoming programs, classes, and lectures offered by Marie Selby Botanical Gardens!
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- - Botany
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    - Horticulture
      - About Horticulture – Information on Our Horticulture Department
    - horticulture
      
      from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
      
      noun The science or art of cultivating fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants.
      
      noun The cultivation of a garden.
  - Archaeology
    - Archaeology
      - About Archaeology – Learn About Our Regional History
    - archaeology
      
      from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
      
      noun The systematic study of past human life and culture by the recovery and examination of remaining material evidence, such as graves, buildings, tools, and pottery.
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- - Join – Membership & Volunteer Information
    - Membership – Become a Member of the Selby Gardens Family
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    - With your support, our membership has grown to nearly 14,000 member households. Thank you!
      
      Member Benefits
      Free Admission to both campuses, year-round.
      
      Discounts on purchases in The Garden Shop, class fees and special events in the Gardens.
      
      Members-only Previews of select exhibitions.
      
      Reciprocity to hundreds of botanical gardens throughout North America.
    - Volunteers are the heart of the Selby Gardens and play a vital role in our mission of research, conservation, and horticultural display.
      
      Volunteer Benefits
      Training and special educational opportunities
      
      Invitations to Selby Gardens volunteer events including the Annual Volunteer Recognition, lectures, and more 
      
      Discounts at the Garden Shop at our Downtown Sarasota campus, The Selby House Café, and the Bayfront Cottage Café at the Historic Spanish Point campus. 
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About
- - Marie Selby Botanical Gardens – Our Mission, History, & Goals
    - - About Marie Selby Botanical Gardens®
        Marie Selby Botanical Gardens provides 45 acres of bayfront sanctuaries connecting people with air plants of the world, native nature, and our regional history. Established by forward-thinking women of their time, Selby Gardens is composed of the 15-acre Downtown Sarasota campus and the 30-acre Historic Spanish Point campus in the Osprey area of Sarasota County, Florida. The Downtown Sarasota campus on Sarasota Bay is the only botanical garden in the world dedicated to the display ... Read More
  - Our Team – Board of Trustees, Advisors, Staff, and Career Opportunities
    - - A Message from the President and CEO
        To say these are exciting times at Selby Gardens would be an understatement — and it all comes back to you, our treasured supporters. You have played a vital role in every aspect of Selby Gardens' continued advancement and transformation – including the phenomenal success of our Master Plan’s Phase One and the incredible progress we have already made toward Phase Two with $50.4 million of the $60.9 million goal generated. That means we have already reached 83 percent of our Phase Two target! What’s more, the cumulative total of funds raised to date for Phases One and Two stands ... Read More
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Youth Programs

August 2025

Aug 02 2025

Bubbles Under the Banyans – Featuring Spheres Bubble Show with Blaise Ryndes

Downtown Sarasota Campus

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Classes

Classes

Learn a new skill, expand your current skills or join your friends for a fun day in the peaceful oasis of Selby Gardens as you take a class. Taught by experienced instructors, classes range from painting and watercolor, to mind-body connections, yoga, and more. Register today!

Historic Spanish Point Campus

Historic Spanish Point Campus

Selby Gardens’ Historic Spanish Point campus is a 30-acre museum site on Little Sarasota Bay in Osprey that focuses on both local history and plant life. While strolling the picturesque HSP campus—one of the largest waterfront preserves showcasing native Florida plants in the state—visitors can explore ancient peoples, pioneer history, the Palmer Legacy, and native plants.

Visit the Downtown Sarasota Campus

Visit the Downtown Sarasota Campus

The former Sarasota home of William and Marie Selby, Selby Gardens’ Downtown Sarasota 15-acre campus is an urban, bayfront oasis showing a living collection of rare and beautiful tropical plants. It is the only botanical garden in the world dedicated to the display and study of epiphytic orchids, bromeliads, gesneriads and ferns, and other tropical plants. Through the Living Museum operating model, Selby Gardens’ Downtown Sarasota campus also creates and hosts rotating exhibitions of horticultural and garden displays some tied to works by well-known artists.

Sarasota-Manatee EcoFlora Project

Sarasota-Manatee EcoFlora Project

Using your smartphone or a camera, snap a picture of a plant in Sarasota or Manatee county and upload it to iNaturalist. Each month, we will feature a new EcoQuest Challenge to focus on different species and keep things exciting!

Support

Support

Selby Gardens is a nonprofit organization sustained by the generosity of friends like you. Your gift directly supports the Gardens’ operations, collections and plant displays, engaging educational programs for children and adults, and conservation work to protect our bayfront sanctuaries at both the Downtown Sarasota campus and the Historic Spanish Point campus.

Membership

Membership

Being a member of Selby Gardens is the perfect way to visit 45 acres of bayfront sanctuaries as often as you’d like! Members receive access to both the Downtown Sarasota and Historic Spanish Point campus as well as benefit from opportunities to connect with Selby Gardens on a deeper level. Become a member today.

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Hours

Open daily 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.*
Museum of Botany & the Arts closes at 4:30 p.m.

*Closed Christmas Day

Downtown Sarasota Campus
1534 Mound Street
Sarasota, FL 34236
941.366.5731

Downtown Sarasota campus
Admission

Members	Free
Member guests	$12
Adults	$28
Ages 5-17	$12
Ages 4 and under	Free

Historic Spanish Point Campus
401 North Tamiami Trail
Osprey, FL 34229
941.366.5731

Historic Spanish Point campus
Admission

Members	Free
Member guests	$12
Adults	$20
Ages 5-17	$12
Ages 4 and under	Free

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Nature is full of surprises when you look closely!

Nature is full of surprises when you look closely! 🔬🌿

These young explorers from @unidosnow collected water from bromeliads and discovered a universe of microorganisms under the microscope! 🦠

📸 Calling all photographers! Our 45th Annual Ju

📸 Calling all photographers! Our 45th Annual Juried Photo Exhibition is coming soon, and we want to see YOUR photos of our beautiful bayfront sanctuaries! We’re accepting submissions beginning Monday, August 4 through Monday, August 11! Visit selby.org to learn more about categories and how to submit!

This exhibition is hosted in partnership with @observergroup.

Our Historic Spanish Point campus exhibition “Pa

Our Historic Spanish Point campus exhibition “Patti Smith: A Book of Days” is on view now, but not for much longer! Stroll through Smith’s compelling images that take visitors on a journey through time and space, charting both the course of a year and the natural environment of our beautiful bayfront sanctuary. This exhibition is open through Sunday, August 31. Visit selby.org to learn more!

Spend your Saturday at Selby Gardens! 🫧🌿

🫧 Join us today from 10 a.m. to noon at our Downtown Sarasota campus for Bubbles Under the Banyans with bubble artist Blaise Ryndes! Included in admission – free for members!

🐦‍⬛ Enjoy a stroll through our Summer Exhibition “The High Life: Contemporary Photography and the Birds” on view now in the Richard and Ellen Museum of Botany & the Arts and throughout our Downtown Sarasota campus!

🥂 And bottomless brunch takes flight at The Green Orchid by Michael’s On East, open 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays!

Visit selby.org to learn more!

The water lilies at our Downtown Sarasota campus a

The water lilies at our Downtown Sarasota campus are looking pretty in pink! 🪷

🫧 🫧 This Saturday, July 26, Bubbles Under th

🫧 🫧 This Saturday, July 26, Bubbles Under the Banyans returns to our Downtown Sarasota campus! Join us from 10 a.m. to noon for a fun and immersive @spheresbubbleshow by Blaise Ryndes!

🦜 And don’t miss our Summer Exhibition “The High Life: Contemporary Photography and the Birds” on view now in the Richard and Ellen Sandor Museum of Botany & the Arts and throughout our Downtown Sarasota campus!

Bubbles Under the Banyans and the Summer Exhibition are included in general admission – free for Selby Gardens members! Visit selby.org to learn more!

We’re excited to now offer yoga at both of our b

We’re excited to now offer yoga at both of our bayfront sanctuaries!

🪷 Yoga in the Gardens at our Downtown Sarasota campus on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. guided by Jessica Tuttle

🪷 Yoga at our Historic Spanish Point campus on Sundays and Thursdays from 10:30 a.m. to noon guided by Christi from Infinity Yoga SRQ!

Don’t forget Selby Gardens members get a discount! Register for these classes at selby.org under the Calendar of Events!

In June 2025, a dedicated team from Selby Gardens,

In June 2025, a dedicated team from Selby Gardens, Ian Anderson’s Caves Branch Botanical Garden, the University of Belize’s Environmental Research Institute, the Belize Forestry Department, and local volunteers joined forces to respond to an urgent crisis: a devastating beetle infestation threatening Belize’s most important herbarium collections. These collections include invaluable ethnobotanical specimens gathered by researchers like Rosita Arvigo and Mike Balick, some of which exist nowhere else in the world.

Here’s what we accomplished:
- Cleaned & preserved over 1000 specimens
- Moved endangered collections to safe, conditioned storage
- Set & monitored pest traps
- Developed treatment & recovery plans
- Prepared for databasing, digitization and filing

We're honored to have joined forces with this team to save Belize’s plant heritage! 🪲🌿

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