Recently, the Garden received 350 tree seeds from Costa Rica—and a chance to help protect one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. Osa Conservation, an organization based in Costa […]
Conservation and Sustainability
Honoring the Mother Plants
This Mother’s Day, we take a look at the plants that make beach restoration possible. Large-scale restoration projects often require thousands, even millions of plants to be raised to maturity […]
Walk on the Wild Side
Photos by John Eder If a botanical garden is a museum of plants, surely our 90-acre Preserve comprises its galleries. In a moderate timespan — 60 to 90 minutes depending […]
Writing an Instruction Manual for Coastal Plants
Bay cedar (Suriana maritima) is an important native coastal species. Hardy and dense, the shrub protects from shoreline erosion, provides a larval food source for two types of butterflies, and […]
Saving the Last of Their Kind
Our reputation for moving trees like furniture came from the hundreds of epic relocations or “saves,” if you will, from the early years of building our gardens. This was back […]
Rebuilding the Dunes, Protecting the Coast
Naples Botanical Garden and Florida Gulf Coast University study the workings of beach dunes and develop a restoration formula. The plant is a botanical jackpot. Vice President of Conservation Chad […]
