Flamingo Gardens - Ft. Lauderdale
November 11, 2010: Flamingo Gardens is a not-for-profit wildlife sanctuary, aviary, and botanical garden just west of Fort Lauderdale. The grounds contain more than 3,000 species of tropical and subtropical plants, including orchids, ferns, bromeliads, 200-year-old oaks, and 300 plus species of palms. The Gardens were originally the property of Floyd L. and Jane Wray, who in 1933 built a home and citrus grove on what was then the edge of the Everglades, where they started a botanical collection of tropical and subtropical fruit trees and shrubs. The Wray Home is still standing on the grounds, where it is preserved as a museum illustrating a country home in the early 1930s.
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