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Mar 2, 2024 · Fairchild has compelling vistas and strange trees from a Grimms fairy tale. You can visit a house where the butterflies hitchhike on your shoulder as you walk around. It is North America's only trly tropical garden.
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Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is a unique Miami Botanical Garden. Come see our exotic plants, hummingbird & butterfly gardens, and more!
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Fairchild gets its name from one of the most famous plant explorers in history, David Fairchild (1869-1954). Dr. Fairchild was known for traveling the world in search of useful plants, but he was also an educator and a renowned scientist. At the age of 22, he created the Section of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction of the United States Department...
The Garden’s first 15 years saw the construction of its primary buildings and landscape features, including the Montgomery Palmetum, Bailey Palm Glade, Allée and Overlook, Vine Pergola, Garden Club of Amphitheater, Gate House, Montgomery Library and Museum, 11 lakes, stone terracing walls, irrigation systems, Moos Sunken Garden, and the Nell Montgo...
Assembling and maintaining an outstanding botanical collection has been a fundamental part of the institution’s existence since 1938. Indeed, even before the Garden was created, Robert Montgomery and David Fairchild dedicated themselves to collecting, documenting and studying tropical and subtropical plants from around the world, especially palms a...
May 5, 2017 · Fairchild Tropical Garden, Nov. 1943. There’s a man who lived in Miami who is almost solely responsible for whatever you just visualized. And you’ve most likely never heard of him. His name is William Lyman Phillips and he is one of the most important people in the history of Miami’s current physical landscape and throughout its nascent history.
William Phillips, Fairchild’s landscape architect, considered the escarpment the boldest topographical feature. One of the main vistas created utilizing this feature was the Allée and Overlook. The Allée consists of a long walk from the Phillips courtyard entrance to the Overlook terrace.
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Kindest Teacher/Student Award. MLMS engaged in diversity, inclusion and belonging. We were able to honor our student and teacher winners for the Kindest Student/Teacher Award: Mrs. L Garcia; For 6th Grade: Alex Portuondo; For 7th Grade: Madison Gonzalez; For 8th Grade: Maria Bracho.
