by Theresa Bramblett | Aug 1, 2010 | Grants
Montgomery Botanical Center is pleased to announce the initiation of the Martin-Rami Fund, which sponsors tree planting at MBC. The Martin-Rami Fund is the vision of Mrs. Beatriz Eugenia Cardona de Tessy – Genita, who shares the same commitment to living trees...
by Theresa Bramblett | Jul 7, 2010 | News
Caroline Parker, Director of Programs for the Coral Gables Museum, brought 21 students to Montgomery Botanical Center to learn about botanic gardens through a palm planting workshop. The children enthusiastically enjoyed planting an important group of Sabal Palms in...
by Theresa Bramblett | Jun 24, 2010 | Events
A focus on living botanical collections remains at the heart of the botanical garden community. As evidence: Montgomery Botanical Center’s work was selected for presentation at the two major garden conferences this summer. Dr. Chad Husby and Dr. Patrick Griffith...
by Theresa Bramblett | Jun 21, 2010 | News
A great deal of specialized work goes into pollinating plants at MBC. Loss of natural habitat and unscrupulous poaching puts a big pressure on cycads. Cycad seeds produced at MBC are shared with other botanical gardens, educational institutions, and scientific...
by Theresa Bramblett | Jun 18, 2010 | Research
Dr. John Leslie Dowe is a Research Botanist based at James Cook University, Townsville, Australia and a Research Fellow with Montgomery Botanical Center. Dr. Dowe has worked on the systematics, ecology and taxonomy of Australia palms for the last 20 years. John has...
by Theresa Bramblett | Jun 8, 2010 | News
City Year, a branch of AmeriCorp, visted MBC to help us with a large-scale weeding project. The event was organized as part of City Year Miami’s 96 Hours of Power, a program designed to have members volunteer around the clock for a 4 day period. City Year members...
by Theresa Bramblett | Jun 7, 2010 | Events
Miami Dade College’s Palm Diversity & Maintenance class visited MBC to assist with the summer planting. The course teaches identification and good maintenance practices for the major species of palms commonly found in South Florida. MBC has a history of using...
by Theresa Bramblett | May 12, 2010 | Research
Dr. Irene Terry, from the University of Utah, is an expert on the pollination biology of cycads. Her recent work looks closely at the mutual relationship between cycads and their pollinators. Through innovative methods, Dr. Terry has advanced our understanding of how...
by Theresa Bramblett | May 6, 2010 | Events
Two cycad experts from Mexico were recently hosted by Montgomery Botanical Center. Dr. Andrew Vovides, Montgomery Botanical Research Fellow (1989) from Instituto de Ecología, A.C., Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, and Dr. Miguel Angel Perez-Farrera from the Universidad de...
by Theresa Bramblett | Apr 29, 2010 | Events
Patricia Siemen, Director of the Center for Earth Jurisprudence at St. Thomas University, visited MBC with six law students. Their visit coincided with the last meeting for a course on Earth Jurisprudence. The students remarked that seeing the work of MBC firsthand...
