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Jan 10, 2025: Wednesday I held a Pruning 101 class in the Learning Center. I covered the basics of pruning; basically the what, when, where, why, and how. This is …
Jan 4, 2025: Update: we now have 23 Florida Champion trees in the garden, the most by far in any single location in the state. Flamingo Gardens is “The …
Nov 19, 2024: We are seeking feedback on starting a West Broward gardening club based at Flamingo Gardens in Davie. Follow the link for more information. Flamingo …
Oct 19, 2024: Wednesday afternoon I will be teaching another class at the garden. Class Description: What’s that bug? Friend or Foe? Learn how to identify common …
Oct 16, 2024: I’m just finished speaking at Equality Garden club What a fantastic group of gardeners, it was a great time and I can’t believe they have …
Oct 15, 2024: We have news! We have 3 new Florida Champion trees in the garden. A native Strangler Fig - Ficus aurea, A Ceylon Cinnamon tree - Cinnamomum verum, and …
Oct 2, 2024: Will this become the new Florida Champion Ficus aurea -Strangler Fig? We will soon find out… Stay tuned. 🌴 🌱 #tropicaltrees #floridanative …
Sep 24, 2024: Added to the Zingiberales collection today, 8 new goodies went into the garden, two Heliconias, two Alpinias, two Calathea and two Etlingera.
Sep 18, 2024: Today we began a trial Mango tree rejuvenation project. Stumping back some severely overgrown mangos in the grove to see how they respond. We are …
Sep 14, 2024: Galangal ginger Alpinia galanga blooming in the Zingiberales collection in the garden.
Sep 11, 2024: One of the many Florida Champion Trees at Flamingo Gardens. This is a Kukui Nut Tree, Alurites moluccanus This year we added 5 new trees to the …
Sep 3, 2024: We say goodbye to the summer Dinosaur exhibit today. They were fun, but now to move on to the Fall. We’ve got Rewild Florida nature art coming …
Aug 30, 2024: A couple of Heliconias which are blooming in the garden right now. For those that may not know, the Heliconia Society International was started at …
Aug 29, 2024: Coming Soon.
Aug 28, 2024: When bamboo flowers it dies,and makes quite a mess. These clumps are around 40 years old, and we had 7 bloom at the same time…leaving quite the …
Aug 20, 2024: The honeybees are active this morning
Aug 8, 2024: Garden photos from today. It’s hot out there.
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Jul 31, 2024: Urgent Pet in need of immediate adoption!!! This Great Pyranese Dog (in Fort Lauderdale area) needs a home by this Friday! contact 786 214 0553 …
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Jul 28, 2024: I got an early Sunday morning call in to work when a large Oak tree in the garden decided to fall apart across the tram trail overnight. Yeah for …
Jul 22, 2024: A reminder that hurricane season is here, have an arborist evaluate and prune your trees before they look like this Royal Poinciana. A storm blew …
Jul 11, 2024: Gardening Presentations My most recent wildlife gardening talk went pretty well, and I’ve decided to share all of the slides (with videos) of my talks here for anyone …
Jul 10, 2024: Today I am giving a talk on landscaping for wildlife in the Flamingo Gardens Learning Center at 2pm. I’ll be discussing some of my favorite …
Jun 17, 2024: New work project commenced. A new raised sidewalk is being installed to connect the tram trail with the bear and otters.
May 30, 2024: Dino goes roar.
May 22, 2024: Dinosaurs are invading the garden this weekend…and are staying all summer. Dinosaurs around the world 🌴 🌱 #dinosaurs
May 15, 2024: Time for another round of garden orchid photos #tropicalplants #orchids 🌱 🌴
May 11, 2024: One of my hobbies is growing and hybridizing hot peppers. This is one I lost the tag for but it looks very, very hot, with a wicked little tail.
May 11, 2024: One of the more interesting plants in my own garden, the Elephant Yam (Amorphophallus paeoniifolius) is flowering now. Pollinated by flies, it exudes …
May 7, 2024: Our King Crepe Myrtle tree is flowering again in the garden. Lagerstroemia macrocarpa is from Southeast Asia, and is a real show stopper in bloom.
May 1, 2024: Andy the Bobcat says Hi!
Apr 29, 2024: I haven’t posted here in a long time so to remedy that, here is an Orchid photo dump.
Apr 10, 2024: I taught my latest class today, this time on growing Mangos and other Tropical fruit. Attendance wasn’t very good but it was still a good …
Mar 24, 2024: Orchid Show is next weekend. Experience the beauty and diversity of orchids and bromeliads at the 42nd International Orchid and Bromeliad Show at Flamingo Gardens, presented by …
Mar 20, 2024: White Handkerchief Tree in bloom. While hard to capture in a photograph, our beautiful specimen handkerchief tree Cynometra browneoides Is blooming now in the garden Arboretum. It can …
Mar 19, 2024: The catalytic converter thieves have moved to Broward county. My wife’s car just had the converter stolen. The dealer said they had 7 stolen …
Mar 18, 2024: Botanical Auctions The new biweekly auction is up at Botanical Auctions.
Mar 8, 2024: I was struck by the beauty of this pink-orange lichen growing on a Magnolia this morning. 🌱 🌴 #lichen
Mar 4, 2024: On display now in the garden: The Insect portrait macro photos of Levon Biss. www.microsculpture.net www.levonbiss.com
Feb 26, 2024: The Yellow Ashoka tree - Saraca thaipingensis is in full bloom now in the garden and is putting on quite the show. 🌱 🌴
Feb 23, 2024: PSA: this is a Brown Water Snake. It is not poisonous and is a Florida native snake that is not dangerous to people or pets. If you see one, please …
Feb 23, 2024: Plant of the day Suessenguthia (Ruellia) multisetosa -Bolivian Violet is a large, scrambling, flowering shrub from Bolivia. It has showy pink flowers …
Feb 22, 2024: Some photos and a video from the Butterfly Conservatory this am. 🌴 🌱 🦋
Feb 21, 2024: Our Brownea macrophylla - Panama Flame Tree has begun flowering. This is one of several related genera and species which are called handkerchief trees …
Feb 21, 2024: We are planting colorful foliage plants today in the garden. Neoregelia bromeliads, Peperomia, and Aristolochia vines for hanging baskets. 🌱 🌴 🌺
Feb 20, 2024: I’ve been on this planet for almost sixty years, and working with plants for over thirty and this is the first time I’ve ever seen …
Feb 18, 2024: Photos from our second plant clinic yesterday. We had two attendees, and we discussed a lot of plant problems. Orchid care and diseases, turf grass …
Jan 21, 2024: Some photos from my first plant clinic at Flamingo Gardens. I’m really enjoying helping folks with their gardening and plant culture. We …
Jan 19, 2024: The upcoming dates for my garden plant clinics.
Jan 12, 2024: I’m now hosting a plant clinic once a month at the garden on Saturdays. I’ll be diagnosing problems and offering advice on proper care and …
Jan 10, 2024: I just finished my first class/lecture. We had 10 attendees which is pretty good for the first time with limited promotion. I spoke about Horticulture …
Jan 6, 2024: Back to school Well it looks like I’m starting to do some semi-formal teaching at the garden next week. I’ll be beginning with a short Introduction to …
Oct 12, 2023: In our garden we have a fairly large collection of Baobab trees which are found in Africa and Madagascar. Pictured is an Adansonia za which is endemic …
Oct 10, 2023: Hello World I guess this is my obligatory greeting and introduction post. My name is Chris, I’m the horticulture director at a botanical garden in South …