Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
Botanical garden in Coconut Grove, Miami
Italian-style formal gardens alongside rare native rockland hammock and extensive orchid displays.
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What to see
- Ten acres of formal Italianate gardens featuring geometric jasmine parterres and secret garden rooms.
- The David A. Klein Orchidarium, displaying hundreds of epiphytic orchids on custom steel supports.
- Vizcaya's Rockland Hammock, an old-growth forest remnant with national champion trees and native ferns.
- The Garden Mound, planted with sprawling live oaks that were moved to the estate in 1917.
- The mangrove shoreline buffering the formal grounds along the edge of Biscayne Bay.
Plants you can see here
- Redberry stopper Eugenia confusa
- Bitterbush Picramnia pentandra
- Brittle maidenhair fern Adiantum tenerum
- Live oak Quercus virginiana
- Royal palm Roystonea regia
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Nearby plant places
Alice C Wainwright Park
A coastal remnant of rare Brickell Hammock with exposed limestone ridge outcrops and Biscayne Bay views.
Kennedy Park
Bayfront parkland shaded by mature oaks and palms, bordered by natural mangrove stands on Biscayne Bay. Blooming now: Black Ironwood
Simpson Park
An old-growth tropical hardwood hammock preserving rare native flora in the heart of urban Miami.
Coconut Grove Bay Front Park
Biscayne Bay waterfront park shaded by mature live oaks and fringed by coastal mangroves. Blooming now: Black Ironwood, Coral Vine
The Barnacle Historic State Park
A rare surviving remnant of native tropical hardwood hammock stretching to the shores of Biscayne Bay. Blooming now: Black Ironwood, Coral Vine
Bayfront Park
A 32-acre bayfront park with mature palms, shade trees, and a historic 1926 rock garden.
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