Conservation and Sustainability

It can be hard to imagine, but every fruit or vegetable we buy in the store or grow in our gardens was originally a wild species in nature. At some […]

These days, the Garden is well known for botanical beauty. Back in the day, not so much. At the time of acquisition, the property was clogged with invasive plants such […]

If you know the Garden well, you may notice something missing in the Naples Garden Club Idea Garden. On Tuesday morning, we removed the 25-foot lychee tree that had dominated […]

Among the good — and perhaps unexpected — outcomes of the Garden’s Project Stay Planted drive last spring: It inspired a new, nationwide plant survey in Haiti that aims to […]

In 2002, a beetle from Asia snuck into a Georgia port via a shipping crate, found its way to a redbay tree, infected it with a fungus, and started a […]

If there is such a thing as a pandemic-perfect job, Jessica DeYoung’s may be it. The conservation associate, under the supervision of Vice President of Conservation Chad Washburn, spends her […]