Selby Gardens

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Categories: sarasota wedding venue Address: Sarasota, FL
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11/12/2010

I knew that I wanted my wedding at Selby Gardens. The location is beautiful!! Dan is great to work with. He was very flexible and accessable the day of. It was a little difficult to track him down by phone sometimes, but he was available the few weeks leading up to the wedding and he and his team were fantastic the day of!

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10/15/2010

I knew as soon as I saw the gardens that it was where I wanted our wedding... So many thanks to Dan and the gardens staff for helping us have a perfect & beautiful wedding!
The gardens was the 1st of the vendors we chose, so we had a lot of questions for Dan...but I'm glad we asked b/c he was so helpful and made me feel relaxed! Dan was great about working with us for all of those months of planning & in working with all of our vendors to make our day perfect!

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12/22/2007

beautiful botanical gardens but very pricey. so gl;ad I went there by day since at low tide the site overlooking the water has a terrible marsh bog smell. we ended up not choosing them because there is no smoking on the property and we can't kick the habit.

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About Selby Gardens

The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida is a not-for-profit institution fostering understanding and appreciation of tropical plants, especially epiphytes (plants that grow on other plants), through programs of research, conservation, education and display. Selby Gardens is perhaps best known for its living collection of more than 6,000 orchids.

The 9.5-acre bayfront property is an open-air and under-glass museum of more than 20,000 colorful plants, many collected in the wild on over 150 scientific expeditions to tropical rain forests by Selby Gardens research staff. Seven greenhouses are the heart of botanical research and plant identification, for which Selby Gardens is internationally recognized.

Throughout the grounds of the historic Selby estate are many distinct garden areas, including the Tropical Display House with its lush rain forest atmosphere, the towering Bamboo Pavilion, Banyan Grove, Cactus and Succulent Garden and Cycad Collection. Also on the grounds is the former Christy Payne Mansion, a unique example of eclectic Southern Colonial architecture. The Mansion, on the National Register of Historic Places, is the home to ever-changing botanical art and photography exhibits.