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Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens has announced the successful execution of a $31,165,000 bond sale to help finance the Master Plan for its Downtown Sarasota campus. High demand from bond investors reflected the institution’s strong finances, while the bond issue achieved...
Selby Gardens launches the My Garden program providing underserved youth in Sarasota and Manatee County with annual memberships to Selby Gardens. The youth will each receive a yearlong household membership to Selby Gardens, allowing them to visit the Garden at...
This month Selby Gardens welcomes new Gardens Manager, Mary Albanese, who is very excited to contribute her 22 years of landscape supervisory experience to the Gardens. Albanese comes to Selby Gardens most recently from The Florida Botanical Gardens in Largo, Fl. in a...
As an opportunity to identify seagrass species and collect data for Sarasota County’s Seagrass Monitoring Programs, staff and volunteers at Selby Gardens took part in the annual bay-wide survey for the third consecutive year. Seagrass is an excellent indicator of...
More than 40 years ago, Marie Selby left her property in our care to preserve an oasis of green space in the midst of downtown Sarasota. Her executors created the world’s only botanical research garden specializing in epiphytes, or air plants such as orchids and...
In early November 2017, Selby Gardens’ Director of Botany, Bruce Holst, traveled to Ecuador at the invitation of a scientific and technical institute in the nation’s capital city, Quito. Instituto Superior Tecnológico Yavirac, known at Institute Yavirac in English,...
Editor's Note: As part of an ongoing partnereship with the Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast, Selby Gardens’ Director of Botany Bruce Holst is assisting in a yearlong plant survey of a 230-acre property on Pine Island, Fla. known as Pine Island Preserve at...
UPDATE: Our Selenicereus the spectacular night-blooming cactus, appears ready to bloom tonight, May 31! Join us from 8 to 11 p.m. in front of the Botany Building on Palm Avenue* to witness this annual blooming. The event will take place rain or (moon)shine. Things to...
Dear Selby Gardens Members & Friends: While there are still several months to experience Marc Chagall, Flowers, and the French Riviera: The Color of Dreams (open through July 31), I wanted to take a moment to share exciting news with you about the success Selby...
Decorating with plants for the holiday season should go beyond wreaths and garland, especially in Sarasota’s subtropical beauty. Marie Selby Botanical Gardens’ Director of Horticulture, Mike McLaughlin, shares his top five holiday-inspired plants that can make a...