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Hurricane Wilma whipped through the garden and took
down its large trees. This sculpture was made from their seaside mahoe
tree that came down in that storm. >>
A traditional herb garden...
Love the light in this small palm
A gazebo graces the top of the garden.
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Light in the bromeliads...
A horseradish tree--don't know the reason
for the name.
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A red-roofed porch.
Some of the sculptures are man-made, others are
not. we thought this could be a sea monster or a weird bird... >>
The inviting library room. Through the arches, a
volunteer greets new visitors--we hoped that they would enjoy the
garden as much as we did. >>
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An autograph tree, which was used by early explorers to leave messages for fellow travelers. The garden encourages people
to write on the leaves, but our first reaction was that this was a
sad case of botanical graffiti.
<< After
making the rounds through the gardens, we headed through the inside
of the building and stopped to admire this chunk of lignum vitae
wood. It's about
a foot tall and 10" x 6" across. It weighs 85 pounds! There is a
20' tall lignum vitae tree in the garden which withstood Wilma's
flooding where the bottom portion of the garden was under saltwater
for several days. They estimate that it's more than 80 years old.
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