Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables

One of the finest collections of sub tropical plants in the Unites States, Fairchild Tropical Botanical Gardens was opened to the public in 1938, established on an 83-acre site in Coral Gables by Colonel Robert H. Montgomery and later deeded in large part to Miami-Dade County. The Garden was designed by renowned landscape architect William Lyman Phillips. The famous plant expert Dr. David Fairchild guided the ambitious project to collect sub tropical species from around the world. For the past 7 decades, plant lovers in South Florida have enjoyed various events and sales, featuring mangos, orchids, bamboo, flowering trees, palms, exotic fruits and vegetables and rare species of plants with regularity.