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The holiday season has officially arrived in Miami. How we know: NightGarden is back at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. Twenty three acres of the sprawling Coral Gables landmark have again been ...
Miami holidays will light up again this fall as the NightGarden returns to Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. Miami’s favorite outdoor holiday light show is coming back. Here’s how to get tickets
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is an 83-acre (34 ha) botanic garden with extensive collections of rare tropical plants including palms, cycads, flowering trees, and vines. It is located in the city of Coral Gables , Miami-Dade County , just south of Miami , surrounded at the north and west by Matheson Hammock Park .
Sweeney maintained Fairchild's garden and was vital in its preservation for future use and study, securing its listing on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1984 Sweeney donated the property to the then Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden (now National Tropical Botanical Garden), and remained its principal sponsor until her death in 1995.
The garden is a scientific research facility, and not generally open to the public. The center was established in 1959 by Nell Montgomery Jennings in memory of her husband, Robert Hiester Montgomery, co-founder of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. It occupies the former site of their estate, the Coconut Grove Palmetum.
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The Fairchild Challenge is an environmental education outreach program of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables, Florida. [2]The Fairchild Challenge promotes environmental awareness, scholarship and stewardship in students in grades pre-K through 12, and by extension in their families, schools and communities, through a combination of hands-on research, creativity and a variety of ...
A Celebration of Life will be held for Nancy Ancrum on April 13 at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. The memorial is open to the public. The longtime Miami Herald editorial page editor, who kept ...