Pine Ridge Preserve TrailBok Tower GardensLake Wales, Florida Mr. Bok, I’m here, again,To walk in heaven, all anew;For, it is true–for Earthly man,A garden opens up the viewTo realms beyond …
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This digital transcription is a small portion of Usaburo Tsujita’s autobiography describing his time at Bok Tower Gardens in 1955 and is part of the Nellie Lee Bok archive. The …
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This digital transcription is a small portion of Usaburo Tsujita’s autobiography describing his time at Bok Tower Gardens in 1955 and is part of the Nellie Lee Bok archive. The …
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This digital transcription is a small portion of Usaburo Tsujita’s autobiography describing his time at Bok Tower Gardens in 1955 and is part of the Nellie Lee Bok archive. The …
The Autobiography of Tsujita: Part 1 of a 10-part blog series Read More »
The beautiful Atala butterfly (Eumaeus atala Poey) is now here in the Gardens, thanks to our prolific coontie palm (Zamia integrifolia) population and Thomas Hecker, director of Horticulture at Peace …
On July 12th, 2023, through a partnership with the Rare Plant Conservation Program (RPCP), the Florida Forest Service (FFS), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a population augmentation of …
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Successward is the 1895 book written by Edward Bok. Necessarily the question of marriage to a young man is an important one—perhaps the most important that is given him to solve …
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Under an agreement with the Center for Plant Conservation, the Rare Plant Conservation Program has been tasked to collect seeds of the endangered spreading pinweed, Lechea divaricata, from one population …
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Successward is the 1895 book written by Edward Bok. The attitude which a young man assumes toward women is one of the surest index-fingers to his character, and nothing stamps him …
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Successward is the 1895 book written by Edward Bok. When a writer seeks to present the religious life a being, be he young man or patriarch, it naturally follows that he …