Miami Beach Botanical Garden

This guide to the Miami Beach Botanical Garden traces how a 1926 hurricane that flattened the young resort town led a band of women nicknamed the Dixie Cup Ladies to hand out seeds door to door, founding the city's first garden club. You'll hear how four such clubs later banded together on a slice of Carl Fisher's old golf course, and how the garden survived neglect after Hurricane Andrew before residents formed a conservancy to save it. Look for the old banyan tree still rooted on the grounds, older than any of it.