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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!

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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.

FEBRUARY 2014 GREEN EVENTS
 
February 1 | Natural Beekeeping for BEEginners
speaker: Debra Roberts
location: Kampong National Tropical Botanical Garden
address: 4013 S Douglas Rd, Miami, FL 33133
register: 305-442-7169
for more information:
http://www.urbanoasisproject.org/urban-oasis-project-1/workshops--food-crafting-garden-projects


 Join bee advocate Debra Roberts of Asheville, North Carolina, and explore honeybee basics, hive equipment and tools, good stewardship practices, how to go through a hive (without bees), and treatment-free (“natural”) beekeeping. Session tailored for BEEginners with no experience (those who think they might like to have bees in the future or just want to learn more about them). Full- day session $85 per person.

One day option: Full day, Saturday Feb 1 only, at the 
Kampong in Coconut Grove. 9:00 am to 5:00 pm with hour lunch break. Bring a lunch, we provide the picnic spot! Basic drinks and snacks will be available to purchase. $85 per person.

Weekend intensive option: Both full day Saturday Feb 1 at Kampong in Coconut Grove, 9-5; and half day on Sunday morning, Feb 2, 8:30 am-12 noon at
Verde Farm in Homestead (includes hands-on with bees and hive). $125 per person.

Debra Roberts is a Master Beekeeper, Natural Beekeeping educator, speaker, mentor and writer. She consults and collaborates with other artists on honeybee-related projects and mentors new beekeepers in their yards, by email, Skype and phone.

February 4 | 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 8 | Plant Exploration in the Green Heart of Africa
speaker: Quentin Lake
location: The Kampong of the National Tropical Botanical Garden
address: 4013 S Douglas Rd, Miami, FL 33133
time: 6:00pm reception | 6:30 lecture
rsvp: (305) 442-7169 or email kampong@ntbg.org

Kenyan botanist Quentin Luke has spent almost 30 years exploring and documenting the plants of tropical Africa. He has collected over 22,000 specimens and had nine plant species named after him. He has also rediscovered species lost to science and found species new to science. His collecting style is traditional, using a keen eye and an encyclopedic memory
contribution to tropical fieldwork, exploration, and discovery, focusing on East Africa. combined with an exceptional ability to tolerate tough field conditions. It is this work that led the National Tropical Botanical Garden to name him as the 2014 recipient of the David Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration.

February 10 | Tropical Flowering Tree Society
location: Fairchild Tropical Garden | 10901 Old Cutler Road | Miami, FL 33156
room: Corbin Building, classroom "A"
time: 7:30 pm
web:
www.tfts.org/

Rob Bobson, is the former President of the Tropical Flowering Tree Society and owner of Biospheric Engineering, a landscape design, maintenance and installation company that specializes in rare plants and trees. Rob will discuss "What Flowering Tree is Growing in your Yard?"

February 12-13 | Vizcaya Moonlight Garden Tours
time: 6:30PM
contact: 305.860.8423
location: 3251 South Miami Avenue, Miami, Florida


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.


February 13 | Fairchild Garden Member's Lecture
topic:
From the Caribbean to the Pacific and Back Again:
           Exploring for plants in the 21st century
presenters:  Chad Husby, Collections Manager and Botanist, Montgomery Botanical Center, Brett Jestrow, Herbarium Curator, FTBG, and Jason Lopez, Living Collection Manager, FTBG
location:
Fairchild Tropical Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Road,Miami, FL 33156
time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
web: Fairchild Tropical Garden Event Website
admission: Admission is free for Fairchild Members and children 5 and younger. Non-members: $25 for adults, $18 for seniors 65 and up and $12 for children 6-17.
 
D
espite centuries of exploration and horticulture, many of the world's beautiful, unique and scientifically important tropical plants have never been grown in a garden, or are little known in cultivation. Working as a team from two major botanic gardens and partnering with talented colleagues around the world, the presenters have brought back hundreds of new tropical plants to enhance botany and horticulture in South Florida. They will discuss their adventures on the islands of Hispaniola and Hawaii, and some of the exciting new plants they collected.


Feburary 13 | 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

February 18 | Bromeliad Society Meeting
speaker: Craig Morell, CPA
topic: Tips and Tricks of the Trade: Growing Better Bromeliads
location:  Fairchild Tropical Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Road, Miami, FL  33156
time: 7:30 PM
web:
http://www.bssf-miami.org/

About the speaker: Mr. Morell is the Horticulturist at Pinecrest Gardens. He's been renovating the Gardens since 2004, a year after the Village of Pinecrest bought the property from Parrot Jungle. A lifelong plant scrounger with a yen for epiphytes, he has a B.S. degree in Horticulture from UF-Gainesville. He previously worked as horticulturist at the Boca Raton Resort, and as manager at an orchid company in West Palm Beach proir to that. Craig is a career horticulturist, travels widely, and spends his free time orchid-gardening at home, scuba divinng, photographing nature and visiting even more gardens.  He sometimes escapes from the Gardens and is occasionally seen in public masquerading as a normal person. 

February 18 | East Everglades Orchid Society
speaker: Annual Orchid auction
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

February 20 | Landscape Architect - Walter Hood
location: Miami Center for Architecture and Design (MCAD), 100 N.E First Avenue
parking: Miami Parking Authority garage on NE 2nd Street & NE 2nd Avenue.
phone:
305-448-7488
time: 6 p.m.


Walter Hood Re-Imagines Opa-locka’s Ali Baba Avenue, a lecture by Walter J. Hood, Master M.L.A. and M.Arch. Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design, UC, Berkeley.

Walter Hood is a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley's Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design Department, and chaired from 1998 to 2002. He established his Oakland, California-based studio in 1992. His firm, Hood Design Studio, has been engaged in landscape architecture commissions, urban design, art installations, and research for almost twenty years. Earlier projects located in Oakland such as the Lafayette Square and Splash Pad Parks are regarded as transformative designs for the field of landscape architecture and urban design.


February 24 | Tropical Fern and Exotic Plant Society
topic: Botanical Gardens:  The Good, the Great & the Weird
location:
  Fairchild Tropical Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Road, Miami, FL  33156
time: 7:30 PM
web: http://tfeps.org

About the speaker: Dr. Maunder is Associate Dean for Research Engagement at Florida International University and Interim Director of the Kampong.  He is a graduate of the School of Horticulture at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and earned a Msc. And Ph.D. from the University of Reading. Mike has 25 years experience in habitat and species conservation with extensive field experience in the Middle East, Caribbean and Eastern Africa.

February 25 | Native Plant Society of Miami-Dade
topic: A New Look at the Mint Family (Lamiaceae)
speaker:  Roger Hammer
time:
7:30pm – 9:30pm  
location: Pinecrest Gardens,11000 SW 57 Ave (Red  Road), Pinecrest, FL 33156
web: http://www.dade.fnpschapters.org/


The Mint Family (Lamiaceae) has undergone some recent revisions with some members of the Verbenaceae (Verbena Family) being moved into this rather well-known plant family. Thirty-seven genera are represented by this plant family in Florida and some are widely cultivated by butterfly gardeners and even grown as potherbs to add to stews and soups or to make refreshing teas.


February 26 | 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

February 27 | Landscape Architect - Raymond Jungles
topic: Roberto Burle Marx, Raymond Jungles and Recent Work
location: Fairchild Tropical Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Road,Miami, FL 33156
time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
web: Fairchild Tropical Garden Event Website
admission: Admission is free for Fairchild Members and children 5 and younger. Non-members: $25 for adults, $18 for seniors 65 and up and $12 for children 6-17.

Award-winning  landscape architect, Raymond Jungles, will present recent works designed by his Miami-based studio and speak of the legacy and influence of Brazilian artist and landscape architect, Roberto Burle Marx on his firm's work.

February 28 | Upper Keys Garden Tour
time: 10am-4pm
web: Garden Club of the Upper Keys
location: Key Largo between mile marker 82 and mile marker 102

The Garden Club of the Upper Keys will host its 35th annual Garden Walk on Friday 28, 2014 from 10 am until 4 pm. This popular event is a self-guided tour of private tropical gardens showcasing some of the most beautiful properties in the Upper Keys. Most of these gardens are open to the public only for this one-day event.

This year’s theme is “Through the Garden Gate,” reflecting the different types of gardens seen through their opening gates. The properties include several unique and mature gardens. Located between MM 75 and MM 95, these include a garden of native, naturalized and exotic palms, some reaching 40 feet, along with an abundance of fruit and native trees. Another-- a landscape design by the homeowner -- includes native plants and trees in a salt-tolerant seascape. Behind an artist-designed, tropical-reef-scene gate, another garden is a xeriscape of native and tropical plantings covering over an acre, a garden designed to minimize water usage. Do not miss a 1950’s site in Islamorada, with palms estimated to be 100 years old and bromeliads growing 20 feet up the trees.

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 for the walk are available for a $25 donation to the Garden Club of the Upper Keys and may be obtained in advance beginning February 1 at the following locations:
Key Largo Chamber of Commerce – MM 106 (Bayside)
Key Largo Florist & Gift Shop – MM 99.5 (Oceanside)
Islamorada Chamber of Commerce – MM 87 (Bayside)
The Banyan Tree – MM 81 (Oceanside)

On the day of Garden Walk 2014, tickets will also be available at the Francis Tracy Garden Center.


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