MiamiGreen.info is a Green Events Calendar featuring South Florida architecture, environmental design, garden lectures, and eco events. The 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. |
month of June 2012
June 5 | Orchid Society of Coral Gables topic: Annual Orchid Auction location: Fairchild Tropical Garden | 10901 Old Cutler Road | Miami, FL room: Corbin Building, classroom "A" time: 7:30 pm web: www.oscgonline.org June 6 | Redland Evening Herb Society topic: New topic & speaker each month location: Fruit and Spice Park | 24801 SW 187 Ave | Homestead, Florida 33031 date: First Wednesday of each Month time: 7:30pm web: www.miamifruitandspicepark.com June 9 | Bamboo Society Tree Plant Sale location: Fairchild Tropical Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Road,Miami, FL 33156 time: 9:30am-4:30pm web: Fairchild Tropical Garden Event Website The Bamboo Society's Plant Sale will showcase some of the best tropical bamboo from around the world including some of the best species to use in sub-tropical climates like South Florida. Speak with local growers and browse their selection of bamboo for ideas on how to use this tropical plant material in your landscape design. June 9 | Organic Pest Control Lecture speaker: Adrian Hunsberger host: Miami Beach Botanic Garden location: 2000 Convention Center Drive | Miami Beach, FL 33139 time: 10AM-12PM web: Miami Beach Botanical Garden Did you just spray an endangered Miami blue butterfly larva (Cyclargus thomasi bethunebakeri) with Raid®? Join Miami Dade County Extension Agent Adrian Hunsberger as she describes the different insects in your garden and how to control them using organic methods. Hunsberger has a bachelor’s in horticulture from Virginia Tech and a master’s in entomology from University of Florida. June 14 | South Dade Garden Club topic: New topic and speaker each month 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 June 19 | Bromeliad Society of South Florida topic: Mounting Bromeliads by Matt DeLeon 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 June 20 | Orchid Society of South Florida speaker: Third Wednesday of every month | 7:30 pm date: Third Wednesday of every month | 7:30 pm time: Registration & Judging of plants 7:15 PM | Program Begins 8 PM web: www.sforchid.com June 26 | 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 June 26 | Florida Native Plant Society Miami-Dade topic: Native Plant Lecture location: Pinecrest Gardens 11000 Southwest 57th Avenue | Miami, FL 33156 time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm web: www.dade.fnpschapters.org June 28 to 30 | FLASLA Landscape Architecture Conference topic: American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Florida Chapter Conference location: Renaissance World Golf Village Resort | 500 South Legacy Trail St. Augustine, FL web: Florida Chapter ASLA brochure: Download PDF Keynote speakers include Stan Skalka, President of Victor Stanley, Inc. and landscape designer and author Rick Darke of Rick Darke, LLC. Stan Skalka presents a lecture on the lessons all landscape architects can take from one of the greatest tales of survival in expedition history: Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 voyage to the Antarctic. The book "Endurance” is the setting that Stan uses to relate Shakelton’s "passion” for polar exploration and his drive to be written into history books, comparing it to the "passion” inside each landscape architect that is needed to be successful in their endeavors. As with Shackleton, passion is a necessary ingredient for LA’s, not only for creativity, but as a reserve to harness when economic times are discouraging. Using examples from Berlin to New York to Santiago, Rick Darke, President of Rick Darke LLC, will illustrate a diversity of habitats and designed landscapes and will discuss how his approach to design and management has evolved in an age when the only certainty is the accelerating pace of change. Of special note, Darke's writing and photography is featured in Annik La Farge's new book "On The High Line: Exploring America's Most Original Urban Park". June 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. |
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