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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!

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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.

OCTOBER 2013 GREEN EVENTS
 
October 1| 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

Oct 2 | TropiColor: Color + Texture for South Florida Gardens
time: 6:30 to 9:00 p.m.
location: Fairchild Tropical Garden
fee: Member, $30; Non-member, $45
web:
Fairchild Tropical Garden Education Classes

Join Miami landscape designer, Carlos Somoza, on a journey through subtropical gardens that illustrate stunning plant combinations that can be used in your private gardens and balconies. Fundamental planting design principles, including color, form and texture will be discussed along with basic culture and characteristics of the plant palettes being
highlighted. A plant species list of Carlos’ favorite planting combinations for Zone 10 and a list of local nursery resources for plant materials will be available to students.


October 2 | Free Wednesdays @ Fairchild Garden

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

Enjoy the wonder of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden the first Wednesday of every month from June to November, for free.

A day at Fairchild is a day in paradise. Where else can you visit a tropical  rainforest, view world class art, dine at an award winning café and do it all surrounded by the unparalleled beauty of nature? Only at Fairchild.

Spend a day exploring 83 acres of tropical palms, cycads, flowering trees and  breathtaking vistas. Don't miss free tram tours (limited seating) on these special days.

October 5 | Fairchild Garden Member's Plant Sale
location: Fairchild Tropical Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Road,Miami, FL 33156
time: 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM
web:  Fairchild Tropical Garden website

Annually during the past 75 years, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden has distributed plants to Fairchild members for use in the South Florida gardens and landscapes. Once again the time has arrived for Garden members to enjoy an exclusive benefit of membership.

Through the years, Fairchild's horticulture staff have observed, evaluated, and introduced
beautiful, interesting, and diverse trees, shrubs, vines and groundcovers to the  community. A concerted effort has been made to identify plants that are well adapted to our climate and soils, are non invasive, and will provide a welcome addition to the yards and gardens of South Florida. There is an emphasis on uncommonly available or rare native species as well as introducing more common native plants to members who want to establish their own
backyard natural habitats to attract butterflies, birds and other wildlife.  Plants from other
lands have been observed, monitored and carefully chosen to add to the assortment of plant choices for home gardens.

The Distribution Plants have been grown in larger quantities than the other sale plants and are carefully selected for this program.  Plan an early start: lines form quickly, and while we have a good supply, it is not endless.  Along with other staff members and knowledgeable volunteers, we'll be available to advise you on site selection, planting and
growing these very special plants. For complete  information about the plants available for purchase at the 2013 Members Day Plant Sale, click here.

October 5-6| Environmental Leadership Workshop
website: www.tropicalaudubon.org
register: https://tropicalaudubon.ejoinme.org/?tabid=60562
address: The Deering Estate | 16701 SW 72nd Street |Miami, FL 33157

A two day workshop set to inspire local citizens towards action and stewardship. Expert panelists will cover an array of environmental topics. Registration required and student
scholarships available by applying online.

Facilitated by Tropical Audubon Society (TAS), South Florida's nonprofit Voice of  Conservation, numerous environmental and area business partners, the weekend Environmental Leadership Workshop will connect the private and nonprofit sectors with fresh talent to help reshape Miami’s ecological future.

Each day begins with field trips and yoga, followed by a networking breakfast. Day One is filled with a series of 40-minute Lectures outlining key environmental issues affecting South Florida:  Everglades & Water, the Health of area Estuaries, Land Use and Connectivity,  and Sea Level Rise. A Sunset Kayak Trip and a tour of the historic Deering Estate will close the day. Day Two will offer tracks on diversity in conservation, grassroots organizing, public speaking, fundraising for nonprofits and communicating via traditional and social media. A 
Legacy Circle Wine Reception, courtesy of Republic National Distributing Company, will crown the event.

October 10 | Infill Housing Book Talk @ LAB Miami
venue: The LAB Miami
address:  400 NW 26th Street | Miami, FL 33127
web: 
http://infillhousing-es2.eventbrite.com/?rank=1
 
Miami has built to the sky and horizon with towers and subdivisions but lacks neighborhoods of a middle scale. In other cities—like Boston’s North End or New York’s West Village—those places are often the most vibrant. To help Miami start developing such neighborhoods, Knight Foundation funded an architecture studio course at the
Florida International University School of Architecture about the neighborhood building block: small, adaptable buildings.

 “‘Infill Housing’ is an easy-to-follow roadmap of how Miami can draw from the past to develop the small, adaptable buildings that add up to great middle-scale neighborhoods,” said Andrew Frey, Townhouse Center’s executive director.

During the visits to downtown Miami and Savannah, students experienced how small-scale infill buildings create resilient urban environments. The Savannah visit took students far out of the studio, to places and buildings that they had never seen before. Immersing students in cities so that they can experience buildings in person is critical to architecture education. It teaches students to “see” architecture and to appreciate its scale, materials, use and
context.


“Infill Housing” was published after two months of culling, editing and formatting. It begins with student drawings of their inspiration—the small urban buildings in Miami and Savannah—and continues with their new designs,  interspersed with photos of the students at work in Miami and Savannah. It provides a clear vision of what the students produced and experienced and is available in paperback or as a free e-book.

October 10| 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

October 12 | Advanced Edibles Seminar
host: Miami Beach Botanic Garden
location: 2000 Convention Center Drive | Miami Beach, FL 33139
time: 10am-Noon

This  last month's popular discussion on basic edible gardening in South Florida. If you didn't attend the September talk because you were too busy tending your already-burgeoning garden, then this is the class for you. This lecture is given  by Adrian Hunsberger, the Urban Horticulture Agent and Master Gardener Coordinator at the Miami-Dade Extension Service. Adrian writes the plant clinic column for the Miami Herald. BONUS! We now have a  Nespresso machine at the Garden.   Take your morning joe at our Saturday Seminars  to the next level.


October 14 | Tropical Flowering Tree Society

lecture: Kirsten Albrecht Llamas
location: Fairchild Tropical Garden | 10901 Old Cutler Road | Miami, FL 33156
room: Corbin Building, classroom "A"
time: 7:30 pm
web: 
www.tfts.org/

About the speaker: Kirsten Albrecht Llamas is the author of Tropical Flowering Plants: A Guide to Identification and Cultivation, a book that bridges the standing gap between obscure references in tropical botany and the gardener's need for an accurate, practical guide with clear photographs. Incorporating the latest advances in plant taxonomy from the definitive text of Dr. Walter Judd, the book is a rare work of scrupulous research  —  and magnificent photography  —  that will be as useful to the gardener as it is to the botanist. Kirsten Llamas exhaustively documents more than 1400 flowering trees, shrubs, vines, and herbaceous plants commonly grown in tropical and subtropical gardens. She provides thorough information on cultivation for each plant, including growth characteristics, light exposure, cold hardiness, invasive tendencies, and unique horticultural features. More than 1500 color photos of magnificent flowering specimens make this book as much a pleasure to browse as it is a resource for research. Sure to appeal to gardeners, landscape designers,
nurseries, collectors, botany students, florists, and botanical gardens, Tropical Flowering Plants promises to be a staple reference for decades to come.


October 15 | Bromeliad Society Annnual Auction
location: Fairchild Tropical Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Road, Miami, FL 33156
time: 7:00 PM 
web:
http://www.bssf-miami.org/

October 20 |ConSerVations: Champion Trees!
time: 10:00 am
address: 3251 South Miami  Avenue | Miami, FL  33129
contact: Rebecca Peterson
phone Number: 305-860-8423
link: 
http://www.vizcayamuseum.org

When James Deering decided to preserve as many trees as possible during Vizcaya's construction (almost 100 years ago) he paved the way for them to become registered state and national champions. Join Ian Simpkins, Chief Horticulturist at Vizcaya for a tour of the notable and champion trees on Vizcaya's grounds. Learn about how a tree becomes a champion and participate in measuring a candidate along with State Foresters to see if there will be a new champion at  Vizcaya!

October 22 | Florida Native Plant Society Miami-Dade
speaker: Ian Jones, PhD candidate FIU
location: Pinecrest Gardens | 11000 Southwest 57th Avenue | Miami, FL 33156
time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm
web:
www.dade.fnpschapters.org

"Ants and native plants" – Ian Jones, PhD candidate at FIU, will speak about ants tending Senna plants to protect them, and other interesting ant-plant relationships.


October 30 | 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:
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