July 23 |Orchids 101 - Orchids in the  Landscape
time:  6pm – 7pm
location: Shenandoah Branch  Library
address: 2111 SW 19 ST. | MIAMI, FL  33145

Join Master Gardener Angela Kim as she teaches the basics of  caring and growing orchids in your South Florida garden. Incorporating orchids  into your garden designs is easier than you think! FREE, no registration  necessary.

July 27 | Miami-Dade Adopt-a-Tree 2013
time: 9 a.m. -  noon
location: Harris Field Pavilion | 1034 NE 8th Street |  Homestead, Florida
web: http://www.miamidade.gov/development/trees/adopt-a-tree.asp#0

The Miami Dade County Adopt-a-Tree 2013 season is underway!  The  next two FREE tree giveaways will take place on July 27 and September 14,  2013.

Miami-Dade County single-family or duplex homeowners are eligible to receive 2 FREE trees per year, even if they have adopted trees in past years.   Tree species, event dates and times are subject to change. Tree quantities  are limited and will be given away on a first come,  first served basis.

Trees reduce air-conditioning costs by  providing shade, while a well designed landscape improves a home's appearance  and aesthetic value. Trees also increase a property's real estate value and
reduce flooding by absorbing excess rain water. Trees help to remove tons of  carbon dioxide from the air every year. Carbon dioxide is considered to be a factor affecting climate change.

For more information and  eligibility requirements, email [email protected] or call 311. You can also call 305-372-6784 from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Tree  species available July 27:  Mango | Sugar Apple | Paradise Tree |Mulberry | Inkwood

July 16 | South Florida Bromeliad Society Lecture
speaker: Craig Morell
location: Fairchild Tropical Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Road, Miami, FL 33156
time: 7:30 PM 
web: http://www.bssf-miami.org/

Chief Horticulturist at Pinecrest Gardens, Craig Morell has 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, Craig has a B.S. degree in Horticulture from the University of Florida. He previously worked as horticulturist at the Boca Raton Resort, and as manager at an orchid company in West Palm Beach prior to that. Craig is a career horticulturist, travels widely, and spends his free time orchid-gardening at home, scuba diving, photographing nature and visiting even more gardens. Craig also coordinates the monthly horticulture and landscape design lecture series at Pinecrest Gardens.  Visit http://www.pinecrest-fl.gov/index.aspx?page=429 for more information.

July 18 | Free Screening of “Carbon Nation"
location: Tropical Audubon Society
address: 5530 Sunset Dr, Miami, FL ‎33143
time: 7:30-9 p.m.

Chill out with Tropical Audubon Society on July 18th, feed your mind and learn about refreshing solutions to Climate Change! 

TAS is hosting a special screening of the critically acclaimed documentary "Carbon Nation," which
explores solutions to climate change, and illustrates why it's incredibly smart to be a part of the new,
low-carbon economy. Lowering carbon output is simply good business: it emboldens national and energy security; and it improves health and the environment. 

A donation BirdBar will provide liquid refreshment and popcorn will be on the house (in this case, the Doc Thomas House). See you on the 18th!

Check out the trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLs73KJI36w&feature=youtu.be

R.S.V.P.: To better assure your seat, please kindly R.S.V.P. at  [email protected]
& arrive on time. R.S.V.P. is not required, but much appreciated. 

July 20 | Rain Barrel Workshop
location: Town of Surfside Community Center
address: 9301 Collins Ave. | Surfside, FL 33154
time: 10:00A.M - Noon

Florida receives an average of 56 inches of rainfall per year.  An inch of rainfall over a 1000 sq.ft. area yields  in excess of 600 gallons of water. A  rain barrel is an inexpensive means of capturing and storing some of this  water for later use in your residential gardens and landscapes.  By installing a rain barrel in your garden, you will not only help reduce pollution from stormwater runoff, but  also have a supply of free non-chlorinated Ph neutral water for watering your vegetable garden, prize orchids, potted plants and much more!

Learn about  water conservation issues and how to construct and install your very own rain barrel.

July 10 | Landscape Design for Homeowners
location: West Kendall Regional Library: 10201 Hammocks Blvd. #159, Miami, FL
time: 7:00 -8:00pm
Join the  UF/IFAS Miami-Dade County Extension Office at its landscape design workshop to learn how to turn your South Florida yard into a masterpiece.    Visit the landscape design workshop July 10 to get  tips from the Miami-Dade County Extension Office.  Master gardeners Inara Mucenieks and Ernesto Clark will teach attendees the basics principles of landscape design for gardens in Miami, Florida and the importance of paying attention to details.

This workshop is free, and no registration is needed. For more information or to find out how to join the master gardener program, visit the office’s website.

July 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

July 12| Screening: The Fruit Hunter
location: Fairchild Tropical Garden |10901 Old Cutler Road | Miami, FL
web: Fairchild Tropical Garden Event Website
time: 7:30 PM
venue: Visitor  Center Ballroom   

Join filmmaker Yung Chang (Up the Yangtze, China  Heavyweight) and actor Bill Pullman Independence Day, While You Were Sleeping) in celebrating the amazing world of fruit for the very special South Florida premiere of “The Fruit Hunters,” a documentary by Chang starring Pullman and
Fairchild’s own curators of tropical fruit, Richard Campbell and Noris  Ledesma.

Guests  will be treated to tropical fruit tastings led by Campbell and Ledesma, a special introduction by Yung Chang and Bill Pullman, and the very first South Florida screening of “The Fruit Hunters.”

The  film features Pullman trying his hardest to establish a community orchard in Hollywood while Campbell and Ledesma comb dense jungles in search of a rare mango.  Follow the journey of other fruit hunters from around the world – a scholar studying depictions of fruit in paintings at an Italian monastery, a Honduran scientist researching the dangers of growing bananas as a monoculture,
a fruit expert growing ice-cream bean trees in Hawaii, and an indigenous tribe in Borneo saving fruit trees threatened by loggers.

With beautiful cinematography complete with delicious close-ups of rare fruits to satisfy every
epicurean craving, this is a film that can’t be missed.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m. for tropical fruit tastings.  Movie begins at 8:00 p.m.  Seats are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. To  purchase tickets in advance, please email
[email protected] or call 305-667-1651, ext. 3303. If  still available, tickets will be on sale in the Shop at Fairchild on Friday,  July 12 at 7:30 p.m.  Admission: $8 for members, $10 for
non-members

July 13-14 | Fairchild Garden Mango Festival
location: Fairchild Tropical Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Road,Miami, FL 33156
time: 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM 
web: Fairchild Tropical Garden Event Website

This July, Fairchild  Tropical Botanic Garden celebrates the mango at the 21st  Annual International Mango Festival. During two days of  festivities Fairchild Garden celebrates the mango as an
object of beauty and  admiration, a subsistence crop for the people and as a niche and  mainstream commercial fruit of the future. Mango experts and enthusiasts  of the world will gather at Fairchild for formal learning in at the Grower’s Summit 2013, which will deliver specific recommendations on  varieties and directions for growing the mango in the Americas. 
 
Two full days of mango festivities will feature a wide range of products, ideas and of course the star of our  show, the mango itself in all its glory. Mangos have been collected from  the far reaches
of the globe and nurtured in South Florida, following  in the footsteps of David Fairchild, the most venerable mango collector  of them all. Mangos in every culinary creation, work of art and on every  flat surface.  Visit the festival to shop Curator Choice mango trees and  fresh fruit, enjoy mango lectures and smoothies, view the world's  largest display of mangos,  take part in the world's only mango  auction and buy mango merchandise and botanical art. There will also  be mango culinary demonstrations, the Garden's one of a kind mango brunch,  a fantastic International Fruit Market and fun activities for kids.