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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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March 2013 Events
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March 5 | Orchid Society of Coral Gables topic: Landscaping with Orchids speaker: Philip Iloo of Stelmar Gardens 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 March 7 | Green Drinks Miami Happy Hour when: The First Thursday of each Month time: 5:30-7:30 p.m. venue this month: Lagniappe House in Midtown 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 Lagniappe House in Midtown Miami. March 8, 9, and 10 | Fairchild Garden Annual Orchid Festival location: Fairchild Tropical Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Road,Miami, FL 33156 time: 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM web: Fairchild Tropical Garden website Browse more than 10,000 orchids on sale from international vendors and learn about species culture and care at gardening workshops and walking tours. Plants sales, food and music can be enjoyes throughout the weekend. March 9 and 10 | South Florida Palm Society Spring Palm Sale time: 9:30-4:30 location: Gulliver Academy 12595 Reed Road (57th ave) Coral Gables, FL 33156 Billed as the World’s Largest Sale of Palms and Cycads, join other South Florida garden and palm enthusiasts for a sale and show of thousands of rare and exotic plants. Ribbons are awarded for several categories including “rarest palm” and “most unusual plant.” Guided tour of Montgomery Botanical Center included. March 11 | Tropical Flowering Tree Society topic: Flowering Plants at Mounts Botanical Garden. speaker: Joel Crippen, Horticulturist, Mounts Botanical Garden, West Palm Beach location: Fairchild Tropical Garden | 10901 Old Cutler Road | Miami, FL 33156 room: Corbin Building, classroom "A" time: 7:30 pm web: www.tfts.org/ March 14 | 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 March 16 | 12th Annual Tour of Miami Beach Gardens location: Miami Beach Botanic Garden location: 2000 Convention Center Drive | Miami Beach, FL 33139 time: 10AM-3PM web: Miami Beach Botanical Garden tickets: $25/members, $30/non-members Join the Miami Beach Botanic Garden for an exclusive tour through the private gardens and hidden oases of Miami Beach. This opportunity to see behind the gates and into the backyards of the Beach's most intriguing landscapes will inspire and astound. The tour is a wonderful way to learn what grows best in our coastal, sub-tropical climate, and to see what you can try in your garden designs. Each homeowner's landscape and gardening style is distinct and personal, offering refreshing respite from the hustle and bustle of daily activities here on the Beach. During the tour and until 5 p.m. the Garden will host auxiliary events including the traditional Jems & Junque rummage sale, food trucks, a silent auction, and live music. Come discover the city from a gardener's perspective! March 17 | Spring Pedals BBQ time: 11:00am location: Coral Gables Museum | 285 Aragon Ave | Coral Gables, FL 33134 cost: $5 members, $10 nonmembers rsvp: 305-603-8067 Work up an appetite on this group ride from the Coral Gables Museum to Matheson Hammock Park, a 1930s New Deal development that remains as Coral Gables' largest public park. Enjoy the historic coral rock buildings, nature trails and picnic pavilions where we will reward ourselves with delicious grilled hotdogs and burgers (not included with tour price). March 19 | Bromeliad Society of South Florida Meeting 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 23 | Beginning Beekeeping speaker: Master Gardener, Mentor, and Beekeeper Mary Orbitt location: Miami Beach Botanic Garden location: 2000 Convention Center Drive | Miami Beach, FL 33139 time: 10AM-12PM web: Miami Beach Botanical Garden Join master gardener and beekeeper Mary Orbitt, as she introduces the fascinating backyard hobby of beekeeping. This is a homesteading skill that can provide you with your own honey and wax. Orbitt will demonstrate how you can create and maintain your own colony of bees, even if you live on the beach! Even if you do not plan on ever owning your own hive, this talk will answer questions about why bees are disappearing, and what plants you can design into your landscape in order to bring bees back to your garden. March 23 | 18th Annual Native Plant Day location: Bill Sadowski Park at Old Cutler Hammock address: 17555 SW 79 Avenue, Palmetto Bay, 33157 time: 9am - 4pm web: www.dade.fnpschapters.org The Dade Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society invites you to its 18th Native Plant Day, an annual public outreach and education day that will have activities for all ages. Enjoy walks, lectures, plants and merchandise for sale, raffles and more. Bring your family and friends to enjoy this free day of fun and learning about South Florida natives and using indigenous plant species in your gardens and landscape designs. Explore the hammock full of ferns, forested wetland restoration and arboretum in this park as well as the exhibits at Native Plant Day. March 23/24 | Garden Dialogues: Miami and Palm Beach Get exclusive access to private gardens in Miami and Palm Beach and hear directly from the landscape architects and designers about their collaborative process. How do clients and designers work together? What makes for a great, enduring collaboration? The Cultural Landscape Foundation's Garden Dialogues provides unique opportunities for small groups to visit some of today’s most beautiful gardens created by some of the most accomplished landscape designers currently in practice. A: The Bacardi Estate Saturday, March 23rd, 10:30 to 12 | Coral Gables Jorge Sanchez of Sanchez and Maddux, Inc, with Rafael Portuondo of Portuondo-Perotti Architects This garden features elegantly combined formal and informal elements, hints of English and French gardens, and a lush, complex plant palette. The geometry of a central rectilinear pool radiates outward through the exquisite use of paving materials, steps and botanical colonnades. The garden was constructed by the Miami landscape architecture and design build firm, Geomantic Design, Inc. B: Phillip Hulitar Sculpture & Display Garden Saturday, March 23rd, 3 to 4:30pm | Palm Beach Adam Mills of Morgan Wheelock Incorporated, Landscape Architects The three-acre Philip Hulitar Sculpture Garden at The Society of the Four Arts features jewel like botanical embellishments, a stunning octagonal fountain centered on the wide terrace and rose and pale green Brazilian quartzite paths that lead to outdoor rooms. C: Historical Gem Sunday, March 24th, 1 to 2:30pm | Miami Beach Lewis Aqüi of Lewis Aqüi Landscape + Architectural Design, LLC (LA2d) This lovingly restored historic home and garden, originally built in the 1920s, recalls an old European villa. A tile artist from Italy hand-painted the swimming pool tiles and garden benches, complementing the elegant vintage character and tropical plantings of this Morroccan-inspired garden. D: Magical Mediterranean Garden Sunday, March 24th, 3:30 to 5:00 | Palm Beach Mario Nievera of Nievera Williams Lush fragrant gardens surround a grand Mediterranean revival residence designed in 1928 by Marion Sims Wyeth. The newly created gardens include an elegant pool and fountain amid tall southern magnolias and date palms, with an inner courtyard is especially dramatic. E: Casa de Miel Sunday, March 24th, 6 to 8pm | Palm Beach Mario Nievera of Nievera Williams European landscapes inspired Casa De Miel’s gardens. Intricately patterned stone and brick pathways, sculpture, tiled fountains, coral stone terraces and a jewel like orchid house are carefully placed amongst giant Canary Island date palms, royal palms, and cascading bougainvillea. March 26 | Florida Native Plant Society Miami-Dade speaker: Roger Hammer topic: Florida Endemic Species location: Pinecrest Gardens 11000 Southwest 57th Avenue | Miami, FL 33156 time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm web: www.dade.fnpschapters.org This program will cover Florida's endemic species – plants that are found in Florida and nowhere else on Earth. Some of these species are locally common, while others are among the rarest plants in the state. Roger Hammer is a retired Miami-Dade County naturalist, author, photographer, and native plant aficionado. He is the author of Everglades Wildflowers, Florida Keys Wildflowers, A FalconGuide to Exploring Everglades National Park, Florida Icons: Fifty Classic Views of the Sunshine State and wildflower identification cards for different parts of Florida. He received the first Marjory Stoneman Douglas Award in 1982 from the Dade Chapter FNPS for "education, research, promotion, and preservation of native plants”; a Green Palmetto Award in Education from FNPS in 2003; a Lifetime Achievement Award from DCFNPS, Tropical Audubon Society and Miami Blue Chapter–North American Butterfly Association in 2011; and an Honorary Doctor of Science from FIU in 2012. Roger is a long-time member and supporter of FNPS. March 27 & 28 | 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. March 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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