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Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
Year-Long Schedule of Exhibitions, Programs, and Celebrations Reflects on the Past and Highlights the Future of Selby Gardens Marie Selby Botanical Gardens officially kicks off its 50th anniversary with a year-long schedule of special exhibitions, programs,...
By Dr. David Berry Many botanical gardens host orchid shows, but few if any are able to do it more completely than Marie Selby Botanical Gardens. As home to the finest scientifically documented orchid collection in the world, Selby Gardens is uniquely placed to...
Selby Gardens has spent more than four decades amassing the best scientifically documented collection of wild orchids in the world. The bulk of these orchids have been wild-collected, with excellent representation of the rare, the gorgeous, and the unusual. In fact,...
Orchids were central to the founding goals of Selby Gardens. The three senior scientists tasked with establishing the Gardens as a research institution were orchid botanists (Drs. Calaway Dodson, Carlyle Luer, Kiat Tan). Since Selby Gardens volunteers and staff began...
Recently, Selby Gardens’ Director of Events, Roger Capote, visited the design studios of our Orchid Show sponsor, Better-Gro, a national gardening retailer, to discuss different ways to display orchids. Capote, a professional floral designer, spent a day with the...
Selby Gardens is featured weekly on ABC7 News at Noon. Tune in Thursdays to see more informative segments like this one. Learn about Selby Gardens' international orchid collection.
In preparation for Marie Selby Botanical Gardens’ 2016 Orchid Show, Angel Lara, Assistant Director of Horticulture, visited the production greenhouses of the event sponsor, Better-Gro, a national gardening retailer earlier this month. During the site visit Lara met...