Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
Eighty-three-acre tropical garden of rare palms, cycads and orchids built around a network of lakes.
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This guide to Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Miami opens with Hurricane Andrew in August 1992, when winds past one hundred forty-five miles an hour flattened the rare plant house and reduced a decades-old rainforest to ruins. It rewinds to the friendship behind the garden: plant explorer David Fairchild and the accountant, Robert Montgomery, who built these eighty-three acres for him, opening in 1938. Look for the giant African baobab near the gate house that Fairchild collected himself.
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