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A Visit in July, 2003 |
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Visit their website: Marie Selby Botanical Gardens |
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More Wonders from the Plant Kingdom at Selby Rick Kelly |
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20 July, I paid another visit
to Selby Gardens,
along with a former
colleague, a molecular biologist
on vacation from the Netherlands.
This garden, as well as the other gardens
found in Florida, offer wonderful opportunities to explore the plant world
and learn from it. I suggested that my visitor also try and visit the other
gardens, especially Historic Bok
Sanctuary, because its founder, Edward
William Bok, a Pulitzer
Prize-winning author, was a native of the Netherlands. Below are more digital photographs of the plants and landscape. More information will be added to them as time allows. |
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Click on the thumbnails below to see more pictures of my visit. |
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Bedding Plants |
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Annual bedding plants bring quick and frequently changing color to Florida's landscape, from the interior of the state to the shores of the Gulf of Mexico. |
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| 'Florida Fantasy' - Developed by the University of Florida | Purslane (Portulaca spp.) [Portulacaceae] | |||||
| Caladium x hortulanum Birdsey [Horticultural Origin] | ||||||
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Vinca, or Madagascar Periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) [Apocynaceae] |
Black-eyed Susan, gloriosa daisy or yellow oxeye daisy (Rudbeckia hirta) [Asteraceae] |
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| Something Different |
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Showy Evening Primrose (Oenothera speciosa 'Rosea') [Onagraceae] |
One of many garden sculptures set into the floral landscape. | The open lawn offers a vista of contrast in texture and color during the year, leading the visitor to the bay. |
The koi are still greeting visitors. |
A cabbage palm [(indicated by red arrow) Sabal palmetto] has the life squeezed out of it by a strangler fig (Ficus aurea) [Moraceae]. |
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More Plants |
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| Anthurium Flower [Araceae] | Paperflower (Bougainvillea glabra) [Nyctaginaceae] | Bromeliad species flowering in display greenhouse | Large bromeliad (Alcantarea imperialis) | Euphobia millii [Euphorbiaceae] | ||
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Fungi, Ferns and Flowers...Great Diversity |
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| Celosia argentia (Amaranthaceae) | Ginger species | Ginger species |
Interesting mushrooms do their work on a tree stump. |
One of many splendid staghorn ferns (Polypodiaceae). | ||
| Gingers (Zingiberaceae) | ||||||
| Hibiscus | Carnivorous Plants |
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| Hibiscus species | Hibiscus coccinea |
Nepenthes bicalcarata sp. has a sinister look when you espy the "fangs", seemingly dripping venom. |
Varying in color, shape and form, these plants lend themselves to hypridization. This plant may be N. rafflesiana ‘Singapore Giant’ |
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| Hibiscus (Malvaceae) |
This plant in the genus, Nepenthes (Nepenthaceae), is one of many facinating carnivorous plants in the only vining pitcher plant family in the world. My interest in plants began with carnivorous plants viewed in several articles found in the early to mid 1960s in National Geographic. |
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| This plant may be Nepenthes khasiana. |
The screw pine (Pandanus utilis) [Pandanaceae] from Madagascar. |
Queens crapemyrtle (Lagerstroemia speciosa) [Lythraceae] . |
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| Leaf patterns, color and contrast, as well as light playing off these forms highlight the gardens. | ||||||
| Orchids |
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| Paphiopedilum sp. | Paphiopedilum sp. | Phragmipedilum sp. | ||||
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