Botanical Gardens

St. Lucie Cultural Alliance | Member Spotlight - Port St. Lucie Botanical Gardens Contributed by Laura Mehr Visit Port St. Lucie Botanical Gardens Profile Greg Hold, spun aluminum wire artist extraordinaire, is the Faerie Forrest creator for the Port St Lucie Botanical Gardens.  His gathering of faeries has charmed and entranced thousands of visitors since the...

St. Lucie Cultural Alliance | Member Spotlight - Heathcote Botanical Gardens Contributed by Holly Theuns Visit Heathcote Botanical Gardens Profile Long before Heathcote Botanical Gardens became the garden that it is today, it was a plant nursery called Heathcote Nurseries, Inc., owned by Jim and Mollie Crimmins. According to Carol Herzog, Mollie and Jim’s daughter,...

St. Lucie Cultural Alliance | Member Spotlight - Port St. Lucie Botanical Gardens Contributed by Mary Petrone Visit Port St. Lucie Botanical Gardens Profile History tells us that sometime around March of 1513, Ponce De Leon arrived on the coast of Florida. Smitten by the abundance of plants, flowers, and colors, the explorer christened the land La...