What’s better than a refreshing cold soup on a hot summer day? Ajo blanco, also known as white gazpacho, is referred to as Spain’s chilled summer soup. For this recipe, […]
Begonias and Burle Marx – We Reflect on a Legend and His Plants
Can you study biography through botany? We like to think so, and a package arrived not too long ago to prove that point. In it were cuttings and rhizomes of […]
Mary Day: An Enlightened Sense of Space
Mary Day spends her days taming the product of a truly wild plant. For 15 years, she’s worked with rattan reed, a plant native to Southeast Asia that spreads vine-like […]
The Cascade Effect – Intertwined Extinctions
This blog supports this year’s Intertwined theme, which explores the connections in the natural world and the bond between people and plants. The term “extinction” often evokes thoughts of dinosaurs […]
Woven Behind the Scenes: Meet Artist Muffy Clark Gill
It was not easy, says Naples artist Muffy Clark Gill, to transform the scene she’d photographed in the Garden — a mosaic partially obscured by overlapping palm fronds — into […]
Most Wanted Invasive Species
Project Stay Planted is the only time we at the Garden are excited to see invasive plants! Exotic invasive plants that make it on the Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council’s […]
