Discovering the Hidden Gardens of South Florida
“Hidden Gardens of South Florida”
Join us on a tour of two of South Florida’s most secluded botanical treasures, located in Coconut Grove and Coral Gables – largely inaccessible to the broad public over the past 70 years.
Offering Miami’s most dramatic vista of Biscayne Bay, The Kampong contains a fascinating array of flowering trees and tropical fruit cultivars. Noted plant explorer David Fairchild searched the world for plants of economic and aesthetic value that might be cultivated in the United States. He borrowed the Malaysian word Kampong (meaning village) for his home in a garden. Over the past decades, countless scientists and world leaders like Winston Churchill, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford paid visits to the Kampong. Now part of the National Botanical Garden, the property is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Montgomery Botanical Center is the living legacy of Robert and Nell Montgomery, widely known as the founders of Fairchild Tropical Garden. Housed on their 120-acre Florida estate in Coral Gables, it includes the largest and finest collections of palms and cycads in the world. Under the Center’s careful stewardship are hundreds of species, many of which are threatened or endangered in the wild. To protect and perpetuate the genetic diversity of its collections, the Center actively builds its populations of cycads and palms by mounting several collecting expeditions throughout remote destinations all over the world each year.
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| Minimum number: | 14 |
| Maximum number: | NA |
| Approximate duration: | 3 to 3 ½ hours (NOT including transfer times) |
| Time of day: | morning or afternoon |
| Weather dependent: | yes |
| Meals included: | None. See Dragonfly Expeditions policy for added hours and meals. |
| Transportation: | can be provided by client or by Dragonfly Expeditions at additional cost |
| Special notations: | These are private gardens that are available by appointment only. Date needs to be secured well in advance.15% of the gross profits of this tour go directly to the Dade Heritage Trust to support their preservation efforts. |
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