Gardens Press Releases

(West Palm Beach, FL – January 31, 2025) – The host of the hit national PBS television series GardenFit, Madeline deVries Hooper, is bringing her techniques for gardening without stressing your body to Mounts Botanical Garden of Palm Beach County.

(West Palm Beach, FL – January 21, 2025) – Mounts Botanical Garden of Palm Beach County is excited to welcome award-winning author, wildlife photographer, and conservationist Kirsten Hines for a captivating presentation and book signing at the Garden...

(Vero Beach, FL – January 23, 2025) Rochelle Wolberg, Executive Director of McKee Botanical Garden, today announced it is the recipient of the esteemed Jean and John Greene Prize for Excellence in American Gardening.

(West Palm Beach, FL – January 10, 2025) Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden will offer 30 healthy and horticultural classes and events throughout February, including the always popular Plant-a-Palooza Winter Plant Sale and our delightfully...

(West Palm Beach, FL – December 19, 2024) Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden will be bursting into 2024 with 30+ healthy and horticultural classes and events throughout January, including the return of the Sacred Arts Tibetan Monks from India and...

(West Palm Beach, FL – December 16, 2024) For the second year in a row, the Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden will welcome the Sacred Arts Tour Monks of Drepung Gomang Monastery, a Tibetan monastery in Karnataka State, South India, for five days...

(Vero Beach, FL – December 13, 2024) Rochelle Wolberg, Executive Director of McKee Botanical Garden, is inviting holiday revelers of every age to be celebrate an 18-year tradition at the dazzling JUNGLE LIGHTS exhibition now on brilliant display...

(West Palm Beach, FL – December 6, 2024) Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden is finishing 2024 with 21 more healthy and horticultural classes and events this month, ranging from holiday happy to humorously "hoppy" with the popular, frog- Ribbit the...

(West Palm Beach, FL – December 3, 2024) Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden will be offering two special Yuletide events in December: December 8 Tiny Trees, Big Cheer: Succulent Edition with Michael Spencer Sunday, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm $45 for...

(West Palm Beach, FL – November 8, 2024) in honor of Veterans Day on November 11, Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden is offering FREE admission to all military veterans this Sunday, November 10, 2024.

(West Palm Beach, FL – October 29, 2024) Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden will be hosting 26 different horticultural classes and healthy activities, including two extraordinary special attractions: the annual Plant-a-Palooza Fall Plant Sale and...

(West Palm Beach, FL – October 24, 2024) Returning soon with an autumnal horticultural flourish is the always popular Plant-a-Palooza Fall Plant Sale, Saturday and Sunday, November 2-3, hosted by Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden.

(West Palm Beach, FL – October 22, 2024) The Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden proudly announces the appointment of James E. May as its new Executive Director.

(West Palm Beach, FL – October 14, 2024) Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden will be hosting a super-fun and very special Dogs' Day Howl-O-Ween & Costume Contest on October 27.

(West Palm Beach, FL – October 3, 2024) Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden is bringing back by popular demand—the fun and family-friendly: Ribbit the Exhibit II November 23 through May 25 "Under the theme of Leap into Nature, Art & Science,...

Traditionally, the cloisters, kitchen gardens and herb beds of Europe's monasteries were places for monks and nuns to meditate and work.

(West Palm Beach, FL – September 13, 2024) October is Native Plant Month and Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden will be hosting more than two dozen different horticultural classes and healthy activities, including a super-fun and very special Dogs'...

(West Palm Beach, FL – August 7, 2024) September is always a very busy time for plant lovers, and this year Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden is planning multiple horticultural classes and events to celebrate both National Honey Month and...

(West Palm Beach, FL – July 15, 2024) Elephants, hippo, and lion – oh my! In addition to hosting 26 fun and informative, healthy, and horticultural workshops and events during August, Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden has introduced a new family...

(West Palm Beach, FL – July 12, 2024) Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden is inviting the public to suggest names for its seven newest garden accessories—life-sized animals crafted from recycled metal that have been placed around the 20-acre...

(West Palm Beach, FL – June 25, 2024) Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden is seeking sponsors for its next major exhibition.

(West Palm Beach, FL – June 17, 2024) With the hazy, crazy, lazy days of summer at hand,  Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden will host 31 fun, informative and healthy workshops and events throughout July.

(West Palm Beach, FL – June 4, 2024) In response to the overwhelmingly positive response last month to offering FREE admission to moms on Mother's Day, Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden is now extending the same generous benefit to dads: FREE...

(West Palm Beach, FL – May 28, 2024) With the sunny summer months at hand, Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden is announcing new hours and reduced admission rates through Labor Day at the beautiful 20-acre oasis, located just minutes from downtown...

(West Palm Beach, FL – May 23, 2024) Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden is launching a new fun and informative program this August for 3rd grade students in the Palm Beach County School District: Let's All Go to the Garden! A Fun & Educational...

(West Palm Beach, FL – May 20, 2024) With Summer fast approaching,  Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden will host 40 different fun, informative and healthy workshops and events throughout June and July.

(West Palm Beach, FL – May 7, 2024) This Mother's Day weekend (May 11-12),  Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden will offer several fun and informative events for the whole family, promises Mounts Interim Co-Director Misty Stoller.

WHAT: Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden hosted their biggest annual fundraising event – the Mounts 24th Annual Spring Benefit – at the Garden itself on Sunday, April 7, 2024, from 4:00 pm to 7:30 pm.

(West Palm Beach, FL – April 12, 2024) With Spring now fully a-bloom,  Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden will host a variety of fun, informative and healthy workshops and events throughout the month of May, even as it says a fond farewell to...

(West Palm Beach, FL – March 27, 2024) Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden will be hosting two week-long programs in July for nature curious youngsters ages 7 to 11.

(West Palm Beach, FL – March 20, 2024) Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden will be hosting their biggest annual fundraising event – the Mounts 24th Annual Spring Benefit – at the Garden itself on Sunday, April 7, 2024, from 4:00 pm to 7:30 pm.