Photos from the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Florida

Out in Florida for some R&R this week, spent the morning wandering around the Fairchild Tropical Garden just south of Miami, well worth a trip if you are ever out here & need a break from Disney etc..

Heres a few photos - annoyingly a little over exposed, havent got to grips with the long lense on the new camera yet:

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.. hopefully a little bit of inspiration for the year ahead !

Many more palms & things in the album here: I havent had a chance to do any tidying up on these & some are quite badly blown out, but should give you an idea. Meanwhile, Im off to Key West for a few days.

 

What is photo number four Nick?

 

Lk, I was wondering the same thing.
Fairchild is a place I have wanted to go to for a long time, I have only been to Florida once but I was on the opposite side.

 

Nice pictures, especially good to see this time of the year.

 

Sorry - No idea - Not everything had an (obvious) label & theres so much there I was in plant name overload by about half way around.

 

Oxfordnick,
I was at Fairchild about 10 years ago.

Are there still those clumps of those massive Crinums?

 

I dont remember seeing any - possibly not in flower at the moment ? or I was looking the wrong way...

 

Crinum amabile
Huge clumps with pinkish flowers .
They were in flower in December when I was there.

 

It is Freycinetia cumingiana aka Climbing Pandan.

 

You're a gentleman!