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Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is an 83-acre (34 ha) botanic garden with extensive collections of rare tropical plants including palms, cycads, flowering trees, and vines. It is located in the city of Coral Gables, Miami-Dade County, just south of Miami, surrounded at the north and west by Matheson Hammock Park.
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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...
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is a unique Miami Botanical Garden. Come see our exotic plants, hummingbird & butterfly gardens, and more!
Renowned landscape architect William Lyman Phillips, a member of the Frederik Law Olmsted partnership and a leading landscape designer during the 1930s, designed the Garden. As one of the premier conservation and education-based tropical gardens in the world, Fairchild is dedicated to exploring, explaining and conserving the world of tropical ...
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.
The Fairchild Challenge. 272 participating schools and counting! The Fairchild Challenge is our award-winning, interdisciplinary, environmental science competition designed to engage students of diverse interests, abilities, talents and backgrounds to explore the natural world.
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Established in 1938, this 83-acre site is an abundant collection of palms, cycads, flowering trees and shrubs, vines, and fruit trees. Fairchild is home to more than 6000 plant species, many endangered in their native habit.
