The gardens will open its 2025 Orchid Show next month with an installation by British contemporary artist Rebecca Louise Law. Plus: "Flowers and Friendship" from Lynn Goldsmith and Patti Smith, and more.
The new facilities are designed to advance the restoration, resilience and long-term sustainability of Florida's seagrass meadows, which are vanishing at alarming rates.
Ancestral Edge explores craft, cultural, spiritual and ceremonial traditions through media including basket weaving, collage, clay, textiles, photography, metalwork and printmaking.
Board members unanimously approved the project, which will bring a new state-of-the-art conservatory complex and learning pavilion to the downtown campus.