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Gardens in Florida

Public gardens, private garden attractions, and botanical gardens

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Dorothy B. Oven Park

Camellia Garden, Dorothy B. Oven Park

Tallahassee      ( 30.491913, -84.253774 )      0.6 miles

Only seven acres in size, Dorothy B. Oven Park is a Tallahassee city park beloved by locals but little known outside the city, developed on a former nursery established by one of Florida’s earliest camellia growers.

Eden Gardens State Park

The Wesley House at Eden Gardens

Point Washington      ( 30.365451,-86.120389 )      

At Eden Gardens State Park, lush cultivated gardens surround the historic Wesley House, a restored antebellum plantation home built by timber baron William Henry Wesley in 1897.

Edison & Ford Winter Estates

Thomas Edison home

Caloosahatchee River  |  Fort Myers
( 26.633947,-81.880128 )      

Tropical gardens from the 1920s grow lavishly around the historic winter homes of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford at the Edison & Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

Fairchild Tropical Gardens

Coral Gables      ( 25.679378,-80.274408 )      

Established in 1938 as one of the world’s largest collections of tropical plants, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is an integral part of the history of Florida botany and of Coral Gables.

Flamingo Gardens

Tropical giants at Flamingo Gardens

Davie      ( 26.074198,-80.31352 )      

From its roots in a citrus grove, a nonprofit botanical garden sprouted through the efforts of Floyd and Lula Wray. In 1927, they purchased 320 acres to grow citrus and a year later, Floyd hired Frank Stirling to create a botanical garden for test planting of tropical fruit and flowering trees.

Florida Botanical Gardens

Florida Botanical Gardens

Largo      ( 27.883445,-82.807877 )      

Walk through the garden gates into a wonderland of sensory stimulation. With nearly 180 acres in the heart of Largo, the Florida Botanical Gardens is a place for peaceful immersion.

Four Arts Gardens

Four Arts Gardens

Palm Beach      ( 26.706604,-80.042401 )      

Designed in 1938 as demonstration gardens by the Garden Club of Palm Beach to show the diversity of tropical plants available for landscaping in the region, the Four Arts Gardens offer a peaceful retreat from the surrounding downtown area.

Fruit and Spice Park

Fruit and Spice Park

Homestead      ( 25.535229, -80.493831 )      

From its humble beginnings in 1944, Fruit and Spice Park has blossomed into a showcase of tropical fruits, flowers, and spices grown commercially in the Redland

Gizella Kopsick Palm Arboretum

Palm Arboretum

St. Petersburg      ( 27.782204,-82.625795 )      0.3 miles

A lush oasis on St. Petersburg’s Tampa Bay waterfront, the Gizella Kopsick Palm Arboretum features a bounty of palm species in a small space

Harry P. Leu Gardens

Leu Gardens

Orlando      ( 28.567584,-81.355375 )      

Fifty acres of lush formal gardens hug the shores of Lake Rowena in this urban display of botanical diversity in Orlando. The center of it all is the Leu House, purchased by Harry and Mary Jane Leu in 1936 – now a house museum – around which they developed their gardens.

Heathcote Botanical Gardens

Three-headed cabbage palm at Heathcote Botanical Gardens

Fort Pierce      ( 27.418081,-80.323524 )      

Site of the Crimmins Nursery in the 1930s, the 3.5 acres of gardens at Heathcote Botanical Gardens are a peaceful retreat within the city of Fort Pierce, offering wandering pathways through a variety of themed plantings, with many whimsical mosaic benches on which to sit and relax.

Historic Spanish Point

December 7, 2013    Sandra Friend

At Spanish Point, scents hang heavy in the morning air: a moonflower in the act of closing for the day, the sweetness of citrus blossoms, the purple morning-glory clambering over mangroves, the brush of salt breezes.

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