This holiday season, McKee Botanical Garden will once again dazzle the Treasure Coast with its most ambitious light display to date. The 19th Annual JUNGLE LIGHTS, opening December 3, transforms the Garden into a luminous tribute to its extraordinary founding, inviting visitors to journey through six of the eight countries of Amazonia once explored by McKee’s original plant collectors nearly a century ago. Commissioned by founders Arthur McKee and Waldo Sexton, these daring e

Luna Moth It’s dusk in your native garden, what’s happening? It’s a serene and sensory-filled time that is transformed by moonlight. As we start to think about resting after a long day, night-blooming plants are getting ready to open their blooms, bats are just starting to awaken from their slumber, and the moths are seeking the bloom scents and any light you have provided. There is more going on in your Florida native garden after dark than you might imagine! If you’ve ever

Each December, as dusk settles over Fort Pierce, Heathcote Botanical Gardens is transformed into a radiant wonderland, a luminous celebration of nature, creativity, and community. Now in its 11th year, the Garden of Lights returns as one of the Treasure Coast’s most anticipated holiday traditions, featuring more than one million sparkling lights, live music, local food and beverage trucks, and the unmistakable joy of the season. Behind every shimmering tree and glowing garden

The Milky Way as seen from Kissemmee Prarie Preserve. Photo courtesy of Florida State Parks The Ancient Migration Each autumn, Florida prepares for familiar seasonal changes—holiday celebrations, cooler evenings, and the arrival of “snowbirds” from the north. But another migration, one far older than Florida itself, is also underway: the annual fall journey of millions of birds. Roughly 60 percent of bird species are migratory, many traveling at night. Birds use a combination