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MiamiGreen.info is a Green Events Calendar featuring South Florida architecture, environmental design, garden lectures, and eco events. This events calendar is provided as a community service for South Florida environmental activists, garden enthusiasts and green industry professionals. Each of the organizations featured in our calendar is a priceless resource of information for sustainable living practices - consider joining a South Florida botanic garden, garden club or plant society today! Please check each organization's website for more information about individual events and to confirm last minute changes in venues, times and dates. Thank you for visiting! |
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April 2013 Events
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April 2 | Orchid Society of Coral Gables
location: Fairchild Tropical Garden | 10901 Old Cutler Road | Miami, FL room: Corbin Building, classroom "A" date: first Tuesday of every month time: 7:30 pm web: www.oscgonline.org April 4 | Green Drinks Miami Happy Hour when: The First Thursday of each Month time: 5:30-7:30 p.m. venue this month: Dream Hotel | Miami Beach, Florida website: www.greendrinks.org/FL/Miami | www.facebook.com/greendrinksmiami Hosted every first Thursday of the month, join green industry professionals for an informal meet-up known as Green Drinks. This month, join the Green Drinks Miami chapter and NET IMPACT for a sustainability happy hour and networking event at Dream Hotel located at 1111 Collins Ave, Miami Beach 33139. April 8 | Tropical Flowering Tree Society topic: Flowering Tree Lecture location: Fairchild Tropical Garden | 10901 Old Cutler Road | Miami, FL 33156 room: Corbin Building, classroom "A" time: 7:30 pm web: www.tfts.org/ April 8 | University of Miami Architecture School Lecture topic:How Neighborhoods and Buildings That Inhabit Them Can Change the World speaker: John Torti of Torti Gallas & Partners, Silver Spring, Maryland location: Jorge M. Perez Architecture Center Glasgow Hall address: 1215 Dickinson Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146 time: 6:00 p.m. admission: Free and open to students, faculty and the public. April 13-14 | South Florida Bromeliad Society Sale location: Fairchild Tropical Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Road, Miami, FL 33156 time: 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM web: Fairchild Tropical Garden website Bromeliads are extremely tropical and add easy color to any landscape design or garden. The Bromeliad Society of South Florida Annual Show and Sale will be a perfect opportunity to add bromeliads to your collection. Many of Florida's finest bromeliad nurseries and best individual growers will be offering bromeliads for sale. April 11 | South Dade Garden Club Meeting location: Fruit and Spice Park | 24801 SW 187 Ave | Homestead, Florida 33031 date: Second Thursday of each month time: 7:00pm web: www.miamifruitandspicepark.com April 13 | Landscaping 101 for South Florida Gardens location: Miami Beach Botanic Garden location: 2000 Convention Center Drive | Miami Beach, FL 33139 time: 10AM-Noon web: Miami Beach Botanical Garden Do you want to redesign your garden this spring but feel completely lost? Come learn the secrets of the South Florida landscape design trade and how you can apply them to your own property. Topics include microclimates and which plant species do well in typical garden areas typical to South Florida gardens. Attendees are encouraged to come with sketches of their property to discuss their individual needs and gardening goals. April 13-14 | Bromeliad Society of South Florida Meeting location: Fairchild Tropical Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Road | Miami, FL 33156 room: Corbin Building | Classroom A dates: 7:30 pm web: www.bssf-miami.org April 14 | Pincecrest Gardens Earth Day 2013 location: Pinecrest Gardens 11000 Southwest 57th Avenue | Miami, FL 33156 time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm web: Pinecrest Gardens Pinecrest Gardens invites you and your family to celebrate the beauty of our planet, with eco-friendly activities. It is a full fun-filled day of entertainment on stage in their outdoor amphitheater, informative gardening workshops and demonstrations on a variety of relevant ecological topics, interactive and environmental educational opportunities, garden tours, delicious food, music, yoga, massages, and so much more! Don’t miss this festival for the whole family in the lush surroundings of South Florida's most beautiful botanical garden. April 16-22 | Sustainotopia locations: Various around Miami time: Varies web: http://www.sustainatopia.com Sustainatopia is a unique seven-day fusion event focused on impact investing and sustainability taking place each year during April throughout Miami and the beaches. The week of events features conferences, speakers, movies and mixers geared toward environmental design and public awareness. April 20-21 | Fairchild Food and Garden Festival location: Fairchild Tropical Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Road, Miami, FL 33156 time: 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM web: Fairchild Tropical Garden website when: 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM Come see what's cooking at Fairchild Tropical Garden's annual celebration of local foods and the gorgeous gardens that they grow in. Ask local experts on how to successfully incorporate native and exotic flora into your gardens and landscape designs and take home spectacular plants to from the 34th Annual Spring Plant Sale.
April 20 -21 | Earth Day 2013 at Party for the Planet location: Zoo Miami address: 12400 SW 152nd St, Miami, FL 33177 time: 10am-4pm web: ZooMiami admission: General Admission for Adults & Children | Free with donation (see below) Celebreate Earth Day 2013 with Zoo Miami’s Earth Day celebration. The Tropical Flowering Tree Society will be hosting its annual plant show and sale. There will also be fun “green” activities and entertainment for the entire family as well as animal enrichment with recycled items and/or natural materials like newspapers, cardboard tubes, bamboo, old tires, fire hoses, and more. During Party for the Planet, guests can come in free of charge if they turn in a cellphone as part of our ECO-CELL phone recycling program. Not only will each person donating a cellphone enter the zoo for free on these two days, but they will also help save gorillas! Cell phones include coltan, a mineral extracted in the deep forests of Congo in central Africa, home to the world's endangered lowland gorillas. Fueled by the worldwide cell phone boom, Congo's out-of-control coltan mining business has in recent years led to a dramatic reduction of animal habitat and the rampant slaughter of great apes for the illegal bush-meat trade. By turning in your cell phone, we can hopefully reduce the need for additional coltan … and help protect the gorillas. April 23 | Florida Native Plant Society Miami-Dade topic: Florida Endemic Species location: Pinecrest Gardens 11000 Southwest 57th Avenue | Miami, FL 33156 time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm web: www.dade.fnpschapters.org April 24-25 | Moonlight Garden Tours at Viscaya location: Vizcaya Museum and Gardens address: 3251 South Miami Avenue | Miami, FL 33129 time: 6:30 p.m. tickets: $15; $10 for Members, Students and Seniors; available onsite only from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. on the evening of the program. web: Viscaya Website Vizcaya's bayfront gardens are breathtaking transformed by the glow of a bright Miami moon. The formally landscaped grounds will feature live music in the courtyard, the allure of Italian-inspired gardens and the delicious temptations available in the café shop. April 24 | Redland Tropical Fruit & Vegetable Society topic: New topic and speaker each month location: Fruit and Spice Park | 24801 SW 187 Avenue | Homestead, FL 33031 date: Last Wednesday of each month time: 7:30 pm web: Facebook |
A Miami landscape design studio that is passionate about the design and craft of timeless, elegant gardens.
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