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Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
On any given Thursday, Lorrie and Gregg Wilkins who can be found at a red cart near the north end of Selby Gardens. As year-round volunteers manning the Gardens’ “Ask Me Cart,” the husband and wife delight in meeting new people and introducing them to some of the...
What do you get when you cross one of the world’s most foul-smelling plants with another purely putrid-scented plant? The world will soon find out. Audrey and Seymour - Selby Gardens’ two corpse plants - are having babies. Lots and lots of babies. In summer 2016 when...
Dr. Peter Raven, one of the world's leading botanists and advocates of conservation and biodiversity, recently spoke with leadership, staff, volunteers and advocates at Selby Gardens. This was Raven’s fourth such visit to Sarasota, having spoken at the formal...
By Liz Gandy In early December 2016, Selby Gardens' Director of Botany, Bruce Holst, led a team for a two-day trip through the mud, water and raw beauty of Fakahatchee Strand State Park to continue a critical conservation project in Southwest Florida. With staff from...