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MiamiGreen.Co 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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Carlos Somoza Landscape Design | Miami, Florida
A Miami landscape design studio that is passionate about the design and craft of timeless, elegant gardens.

APRIL 2014 GREEN EVENTS
 
APRIL 1 | 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 10 | 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 12 and 13 | What's Out There Miami
location: Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties
time: varies
web:
http://tclf.org/landscapes/wot-weekend-miami

What’s Out There Weekend  Miami will offer tours of lush, tropical flora and landscapes from Palm Beach down to Cutler Bay. Tour highlights include Society of the Four Arts
Gardens in Palm Beach, designed by Innocenti & Webel; the work of William Lyman Phillips at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden and Greynolds Park in Coral Gables; the Modernist Lincoln Road Mall, originally designed by Morris Lapidus with a significant recent addition by Raymond Jungles; Vizcaya’s gardens, designed by Diego Suarez; and approximately twenty other locations. The tours reveal anecdotes and stories about city shaping, landscape architecture and design history.
  

Miami and South Florida’s landscape legacy extends from its Spanish Colonial roots to the present, where strong Modernist, Beaux Arts and Mediterranean design concepts from Europe and the Eastern U.S. are expressed in unique gardens, parks, plazas, estates and streetscapes. Explore Miami's design legacy through tours that include entertaining anecdotes and intriguing stories about design history, landscape architecture and city shaping. Many are places people pass daily, but do we know their background stories?

What’s Out There Weekend
dovetails with the Web-based What’s Out There, the nation’s most comprehensive searchable database of historic designed landscapes. The database
currently features more than 1,400 sites, 9,000 images and 700 designer profiles.  And, What's Out There is newly optimized for iPhones and similar handheld devices, and includes a new feature - What's Nearby - a GPS-enabled function that locates all landscapes in the database within a 25-mile radius of any given location.

Tour hightlights include Miami Beach's South Pointe Park designed by Hargreaves Associates and Savino Miller, Miami Beach Botanical Garden designed by Miami landscape architect, Raymond Jungles, and portions of the University of Miami campus designed by Coral Gables landscape architect Robert Parsley.


April 14 | Tropical Flowering Tree Society Meeting

location: Fairchild Tropical Garden | 10901 Old Cutler Road | Miami, FL 33156
speaker: Dr. Kiat Tan from Gardens By The Bay, Singapore
Lecture topic: Gardens by the Bay - Year Two
room: 
Corbin Building, classroom "A"
time: 7:30 pm
web: www.tfts.org/

Dr. Kiat will speak about the recently completed projects at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore, including the recently opened Far East Organization Children’s Garden.


April 15 | Bromeliad Society Meeting
speaker: Tom Wolfe
topic: Unique Ways to Display and Grow your Bromeliads
location:  Fairchild Tropical Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Road, Miami, FL  33156
time: 7:30 PM
web: http://www.bssf-miami.org/


Tom Wolfe's program will demonstrate techniques for exhibiting bromeliads via mounting, hanging baskets, cork bark, etc., and the bromeliads that like to grow on these displays.
 
Tom joined the Bromeliad Guild of Tampa Bay in 1965 and has been volunteering for bromeliad organizations in Florida and throughout the country for over 47 years. Tom has served as Tampa Guild President seven times, Chairman of the Florida Council of Bromeliad Societies several times, BSI Director for fourteen years, BSI Vice-President for six years and BSI President for two consecutive terms.

Tom Wolfe is a BSI Master Accredited Judge and instructor. He has designed and installed many residential and commercial landscapes featuring bromeliads and is both a local and national speaker. One can find many photos, video clips and articles about his collection of bromeliads in local media, state and international magazines and many beautiful bromeliad photographs taken by his talented wife, Carol. 


April 16, 17 | Vizcaya Moonlight Garden Tours
time: 6:30PM
contact: 305.860.8423
location: 3251 South Miami Avenue, Miami, Florida
web: http://vizcaya.org/programs-moonlightgarden-tours.asp


Vizcaya's bayfront gardens are breathtaking by day, don't miss the chance to see them transformed by the glow of a bright Miami moon. With live music in the Courtyard, the allure of Italian-inspired gardens and delicious temptations available in the Cafe & Shop. Tickets $18; $12 for Members, Students and Seniors; available onsite only from 6:00-8:00 p.m. on the evening of the program.


April 22 | East Everglades Orchid Society
location: UF Miami-Dade County Extension 18710 SW 288th ST
date: Fourth Tuesday of each month
time: • Mini-class - 7:15 p.m. • General meeting & program - 8:00 p.m.
web: www.orchidseeos.com


April 26 | Xeriscaping in South Florida
location: Miami Beach Botanic Garden
address: 2000 Convention Center Drive | Miami Beach, FL 33139
time: 10am-Noon    
web: Miami Beach Botanical Garden

April 28 | Tropical Fern and Exotic Plant Society

program: Thailand, A Plant Lover’s Paradise
speaker: Jeff Searle of Searle Brother's Nursery
location:
  Fairchild Tropical Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Road, Miami, FL  33156
time: 7:30 PM
web: http://tfeps.org

A year and a half ago, Jeff Searle attended the International Palm Society’s Biennial meeting at Nong Nooch in Thailand. He extended his stay to go the plant markets in Bangkok and Chang Mai and his Thai friends took him to some local gardens and nurseries as well. His talk will be a pictorial presentation of his trip and the amazing plants he saw along the way.  Jeff owns Searle Brother’s Nursery in Southwest Ranches in Broward with his brothers and father, “Pops”. He is well known for his Rainforest Collection of rare tropical palms and plants. The nursery is a wholesale operation but does open to the public for two weekends in March and in October. His personal collection of crotons numbers in the hundreds.

April 30 | 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


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