Eight visitors from the Key West Garden Club and one Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden employee visited Montgomery for a tour of the collections of palms and cycads.
The Key West Garden Club is a non-profit organization and one of Key West’s last remaining free tourist attractions. Plants are donated and maintained by members and volunteers. A group of volunteers and members drove three hours to visit Montgomery Botanical Center for a tour of the collections of palms and cycads.
Montgomery Botanical Center has a history of donating plants to local garden clubs and non-profits. Working together with organizations like the Key West Garden Club helps to educate interested plant lovers in the current conservation issues and research being conducted on palms and cycads.