Marie Selby Botanical Garden

Orchids in a shadehouse at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens

I decided to recycle some photos that I never got around to turning into a blog.  Last October (2012), AJ and I visited the wonderful Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, FL.  Selby specializes in epiphytes - orchids, air plants, bromeliads - so I visited to gather information when we were thinking about bring our orchid collection from an outsourced grower back to Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden.  We had a wonderful tour by Greenhouse Manager, Angel Lara.  He showed us the many different growing zones and gave me great tips about orchid culture, virus control, and curation.  It was a fun walk down memory lane for AJ because he was an intern at Selby about 10 years ago while he was studying Agriculture at Virginia Tech.

Angel and AJ at the koi pond

Flowering Bulbophyllum phalaenopsis

Sculpture in the garden surrounded by tropical foliage

A specimen in the fig (Ficus) collection

Bat plant (Tacca integrifolia)

The lush tropical vegetation in the conservatory

Garden house with bromeliads and Spanish moss dripping from a tree at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens

Small bromeliads on a series of horizontal wreaths hanging from the trees