Kraft Azalea Garden
Lakeside garden of towering cypress and a rare cold-hardy banyan, framed by a stone lakeside colonnade.
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This guide to Kraft Azalea Garden on Lake Maitland, near Orlando, opens beneath a banyan tree with no business surviving this far north, believed to be the northernmost in Florida. You'll hear how neighbors George and Maud Kraft joined Winter Park's mayor in 1938 to turn five lakefront acres into a public garden, and how nurseryman Martin Daetwyler shaped it around the moss-draped cypress already there. Listen for the Great Egrets nesting overhead as you walk toward the stone colonnade at the water's edge.
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