Jessica DeYoung, the Garden’s Conservation Horticulture Manager, explains why she collects native plant seeds for our seed bank and, someday, your yard I’m wandering down an animal trail, weaving between […]
Conservation and Sustainability
Saving a Spider That’s Anything but Spooky
Talk about a plant with a sense of place. Hymenocallis puntagordensis is a flowering perennial found only in … have you guessed … Charlotte County, the region north of us […]
Documenting a Prescribed Burn
Being Naples Botanical Garden’s staff photographer and videographer is a dream job. I get to do a lot of different stuff, including chronicling Garden staff’s wide-ranging projects, taking portraits of […]
Dead Tree Sustains New Life
Got a dead tree in your backyard? Don’t automatically add it to the horticultural waste pile. Natural Resources Associate Mike Cox offers a better idea. Cox recently planted a 4-foot-tall […]
Discover the Garden’s Solution to Dirty Runoff Water: Plants!
Recent rains hint at the wet season to come — and with it our chance to see our exciting new environmental feature in action. A few weeks ago, Garden conservation […]
Florida ghost orchid captivates British press, public
The invitation: Go to London. Team up with the world’s foremost experts on native orchids and create an exhibition for the world-renowned Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show. The challenge: Navigate complicated […]