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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. |
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month of March 2012
March 6 | Orchid Society of Coral Gables topic: Ruben Sauleda: Pollinating, Flasking, and Deflasking location: Fairchild Tropical Garden | 10901 Old Cutler Road | Miami, FL room: Corbin Building, classroom "A" time: 7:30 pm web: www.oscgonline.org March 7 | 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 March 7 | Moonlight Tour at Viscaya location: Vizcaya Museum and Gardens | 3251 South Miami Ave. | Miami, FL time: 6:30 pm cost: 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: www.vizcayamuseum.org March 10 | What to Grow on Your Balcony & Terrace speaker: David McLean host: Miami Beach Botanic Garden location:2000 Convention Center Drive | Miami Beach, FL 33139 time: 10AM-12PM web: Miami Beach Botanical Garden A free lecture with nurseryman and landscape designer David McLean focuses on choosing wind and salt resistant plants for balcony gardens and small spaces, maximize a growing area with vertical space, options for container gardening, and plant selection whether you’re living in a sunny rooftop penthouse or a North-facing first-floor apartment. McLean is an authority on landscape technology and owner of Trinity Churchside Gardens in Ft. Lauderdale. March 12 | Tropical Flowering Tree Society topic: Tropical Flowering Trees of Brazil location: Fairchild Tropical Garden | 10901 Old Cutler Road | Miami, FL 33156 room: Corbin Building, classroom "A" date: Fourth Monday of each month time: 7:30 pm web: www.tfeps.org March 15 - 17 | LABash (Landscape Architecture Bash) host: Florida International University Student Chapter ASLA web: www.fiulabash2012.com LABash is a student run conference that serves as a platform for students from various universities to converge, exchange ideas and celebrate their passion for landscape architecture. The 2012 Conference will be hosted by the Florida International University Student Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects at FIU's campus facilities in Miami and the newly inaugurated FIU facilities at 420 Lincoln Road on Miami Beach. Lectures and workshops include speakers Walter Hood, professor at the University of California, Berkeley’s Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design Department, Miami landscape architect Raymond Jungles, FASLA, and South Florida landscape architect Doug Smith, ASLA, president of EDSA. March 15 | 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 March 17 | Annual Tour of Miami Beach Gardens host: Miami Beach Botanic Garden location: 2000 Convention Center Drive | Miami Beach, FL 33139 time: 10AM-3PM This once-a-year opportunity to participate in a tour of exclusive Miami Beach residential gardens is ideal for amateur and professional garden enthusiasts. See behind the gates of luxury waterfront estates and visit urban retreats, rooftop oases, and distinctive private gardens designed by award winning Florida landscape architects and garden designers. Participants drive their own cars or bicycle to explore each garden at a leisurely pace. Tickets are $25 advance, $30 day of the tour. March 17 and 18 | Palm and Cycad Plant Sale host: South Florida Palm and Cycad Society location: Montgomery Botanic Ceter address: Entrance and Parking at Gulliver Academy | 12595 SW 57th Ave | Miami, Florida time: 9:30 - 4:30 Billed as the world's largest sale of palms and cycads, this annual event has over 25 vendors and thousands of rare and exotic plants for sale. Meet with expert growers to inquire about what South Florida palm and cycad species will best accent your residential landscape design. web: Montgomey Botanic Garden News Page March 20 | Bromeliad Society of South Florida topic: Preparing Bromeliads for Award Shows 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 March 21 | Up By Roots with Landscape Architect James Urban location: Larkins Community Center | 520 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. (NW 3rd Ave.) sponsors: Florida Chapter International Society of Arboriculture sponsors: Florida Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) city: Pompano Beach, FL 33060 time: 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM web: Register | Flyer Landscape architect, James Urban brings his book, UP BY ROOTS, to life with a day of hands-on instruction highlighting key soil and site assessment techniques. These skills are critical for arborists, landscape architects, architects, planners, and urban foresters who design, specify, install, or manage trees in the built environment. Up By Roots is a one-day workshop that highlights the principles of soil science and their use in facilitating the growth of healthy trees and developing water-efficient landscapes. This workshop includes lectures and field work intended to introduce the underlying scientific principles guiding tree biology and soil-water relations. It is only through a healthy respect for these guiding principles that one can effectively design, install, and manage soils and trees in the urban landscape. JAMES URBAN, Landscape Architect Fellow, is a landscape architect with more than 30 years of experience in the field of urban development. Over the past three decades, Jim has routinely dealt with the challenge of planting trees in difficult urban sites. Since 1982, he has researched and tested various methods of tree installation in the urban environment. Jim has developed applications for practicing arborists and landscape architects that include the testing of new urban tree systems and planting concepts, developing new approaches to landscape architectural design, and detailing and specifications in the area of trees and urban soils. March 21 | 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 March 27 | East Everglades Orchid Society speaker: Broward Orchid Supply 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 March 27 | Florida Native Plant Society Miami-Dade speaker: Stephen Davis of the Everglades Foundation will give us an update on the progress of restoration in the Everglades. location: Pinecrest Gardens 11000 Southwest 57th Avenue | Miami, FL 33156 time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm web: www.dade.fnpschapters.org March 28| 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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