We have a treat for you today. It involves smashing stuff. With rocks. Cathartic, right? As soon as the Garden closed last month, our Education and Visitor Experience team dug […]
V for Victory Gardens
Our team reported to Bonita Springs Elementary School Thursday morning, their cars loaded with seedlings—tomatoes, eggplants, okra, mustard and kale, a little over 500 in all—to offer families who’d arrive […]
Making rope from a sabal palmetto
Sabal palmetto is Florida’s state tree — although, like all palms, it’s not a tree at all. Palms are actually in the grass family! One fun thing you can do […]
The challenges of gardening without volunteers
The plants know that something has changed at Naples Botanical Garden. Little weeds grow bigger. Spent flowers wither on their stems. Vines climb up signs. What is missing in the […]
Hello, Mango: More on This Sweet Summer Fruit + Mango Mimosas
The coolest thing about blazing hot summers in Southwest Florida is that we can cook with an abundance of fruits planted in our own backyard, like varieties of Mangifera indica, […]
Littoral Zones: More Than Just a Natural Decoration
Southwest Florida has thousands of stormwater retention ponds. Many of us pay them no attention. But Education Programs Assistant Emily Kless sure does. In this video, Emily discusses pond littoral […]
