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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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month of February 2013
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February 5 | 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 February 7 | Green Drinks Miami Happy Hour when: The First Thursday of each Month time: 5:30-7:30 p.m. 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 Lous Beer Garden. February 7 | From the Jungle to The Garden speaker: Dr. Patrick Griffith, Executive Director Montgomery Botanical Center time: 7:00pm location: Coral Gables Museum | 285 Aragon Ave | Coral Gables, FL 33134 Plant Exploration: 80 Years at Montgomery Botanical Center exhibit presentation by MBC Executive Director, Dr. Patrick Griffith. Dr. Griffith will discuss the history of plant collecting at Montgomery Botanical Center from 1932-2012, with historic and present day photos and case studies. It will be an introduction to MBC focusing on history in the City of Coral Gables and present day explorations. The mission of Montgomery Botanical Center is to advance science, education, conservation, and horticultural knowledge of tropical plants, emphasizing palms and cycads, and to exemplify excellent botanical garden design. February 11 | Tropical Flowering Tree Society topic: Young Flowering Tree Care speaker: Craig Morell, Horticulturist, Pinecrest Gardens location: Fairchild Tropical Garden | 10901 Old Cutler Road | Miami, FL 33156 room: Corbin Building, classroom "A" time: 7:30 pm web: www.tfts.org/ February 13, 20, 27 | Garden Design 101 speaker: Carlos Somoza Landscape Design location: Fairchild Tropical Gardent times: 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. fee: Member, $65; Non-member, $90 web: Fairchild Tropical Garden Education Classes Learn the fundamental design principles needed to conceptualize and design your own private Eden. In this introductory design course for homeowners, Miami landscape designer Carlos Somoza covers the design concepts needed to analyze, interpret, and plan a private residential garden in subtropical Florida. Garden styles, building materials, planting design and construction phasing are discussed. Students are encouraged to bring photographs and sketch plans of their existing garden spaces for class participation. February 14 | South Dade Garden Club Meeting speaker: Dr. Richard J. Campbell, Ph.D., Director of Horticulture and Senior Curator of Tropical Fruit Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. Ph.D. 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 The guest speaker at this meeting will be Dr. Richard J. Campbell, Ph.D., Director of Horticulture and Senior Curator of Tropical Fruit Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. Ph.D. in Horticulture, M.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute, B.S., University of Florida; teaching experience in adult horticultural programs, teacher training, undergraduate courses. Editor of A Guide to Mangos in Florida (Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden 1992) and author of more than 20 articles and papers on tropical fruit including "Jackfruit" 1998. Members' Meeting, and Lecture by Craig Morell, Horticulturist, Pinecrest Gardens, Miami. "Young Flowering Tree Care - insignts on how to take care of your tree kindergarten" February 19 | Bromeliad Society of South Florida Meeting speaker: Dr. Terrie Bert topic: The Outstandingly Ostentatious and Particularly Picturesque O & P Bromeliad Genera 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 Presentation: Dr. Bert is a longstanding member of the Sarasota Bromeliad Society (SBS) and the Caloosahatchee offices in the SBS. She also served the (FCBS) as a representative and officer for Director and chaired several international committees. She currently is an internationally accredited Master Judge. She’s given over 100 presentations on bromeliads to numerous U.S. and international bromeliad societies and other groups. She has authored articles for the BSI Journal and the FCBS newsletter. She’s won multiple top awards in local bromeliad shows and BSI world conferences and is a volunteer for and contributor to the BSI Bromeliad Identification Center. Terrie has a Ph.D. in marine biology and is a research scientist for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. In this presentation, Dr. Bert speaks about about 5 of the 8 bromeliad genera beginning with the letters O & P (plus a bonus genus) and not commonly grown by hobbists. She shows examples of species in the genus in cultivation and in nature: describes how (if) they can be cultivated: and includes interesting facts and tidbits of fun information throughout the talk. As has become her custom, there is a surprise at the end of the talk. February 20 | From the Jungle to The Garden speaker: Dr. Larry Noblick, Palm Biologist time: 6:00pm location: Coral Gables Museum | 285 Aragon Ave | Coral Gables, FL 33134 Dr. Larry Noblick, Palm Biologist at Montgomery Botanical Center will be discuss his travels and what a palm biologist must do to bring seeds to a garden. The mission of Montgomery Botanical Center is to advance science, education, conservation, and horticultural knowledge of tropical plants, emphasizing palms and cycads, and to exemplify excellent botanical garden design. February 22, 2013 | Upper Keys Garden Walk time: 10am-4pm web: Garden Club of the Upper Keys location: Key Largo between mile marker 82 and mile marker 102 This South Florida garden walk is a unique, self-guided tour showcasing gardens in the upper Keys between Mile Marker 82 and Mile Marker 102. This year, the club will host five distinctive, private gardens offering a variety of tropical plants and landscape designs including a native plant hammock and salt-tolerant seascapes. Participants are invited to a complimentary garden tea party at the garden club's historic Francis Tracy Garden Center (Mile Marker 94) in Tavernier featuring artisans, landscape plant sales, original art, complimentary refreshments, live music, and the Club’s gardens. Vendors will be on site throughout the day. Tickets are available for a $25 donation and can be purchased in advance at the following locations: Key Largo Chamber of Commerce (MM 106 bayside), Key Largo Florist & Gift Shop (MM 99 ocean side), Tasters Grille (MM 91.4 bayside), Islamorada Chamber of Commerce (MM 83.2 bayside) and Green Turtle Inn Restaurant (MM 81.2) ocean side. Tickets are also available on the day of the Walk at the Francis Tracy Garden Center and at each garden property. February 23 | Bamboo and You speaker: Gary Rich, A.K.A. “The Bamboo Man” location: Miami Beach Botanic Garden location: 2000 Convention Center Drive | Miami Beach, FL 33139 time: 10AM-12PM web: Miami Beach Botanical Garden When planted properly and knowledgeably, these giant grasses can grow to formidable forests, guaranteed to leave passersby slack-jawed. Gary Rich "The Bamboo Man" will present an overview of tropical bamboo and reasons that you should consider incorporating bamboos into your South Florida garden designs. Gary will discuss the difference between running and clumping bamboo, how to choose the right variety of bamboo for the particular needs of your garden, and how to plant, maintain, water, fertilize, mulch and prune these beautiful grasses. Recommendations on useful tools to obtain the maximum results from your bamboo plants will also be provided. Plants will be available for sale after the lecture. February 26 | Florida Native Plant Society Miami-Dade speaker: Xavier Cortada topic: Native Flags Eco-Art Project location: Pinecrest Gardens 11000 Southwest 57th Avenue | Miami, FL 33156 time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm web: www.dade.fnpschapters.org Environmental artist, Xavier Cortada, speaks about his participatory eco-art project which he is implementing through the FIU College of Architecture, the Arts Office of Engaged Creativity and the FIU Office of Sustainability. Xavier Cortada created art at the Earth Poles to generate environmental at point in between: In 2007, the artist used the moving ice sheet beneath the South Pole as an instrument to mark time; the art piece will be completed in 150,000 years. In 2008, Cortada planted a green flag at North Pole to encourage reforestation in the world below. Cortada, who was born in Albany, New York and grew up in Miami, holds degrees from the University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences, Graduate School of Business and School of Law. Cortada serves as Artist-in-Residence and heads the Office of Engaged Creativity at Florida International University's (FIU) College of Architecture + The Arts (CARTA). February 27 | 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. February 27 | 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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