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Sharon, The Crafty Blue Heron: A Poem by Charles Santigo

By Bok Tower Gardens | October 2, 2023

Charles Santiago, 9/18/23Bok Tower GardensLake Wales, Florida FEMALE, or NOT, I’m calling you “Sharon”–Bok Tower Gardens’ own crafty blue heron.Sharon, you’re wise, for, you’ve found a wayTo keep all your […]

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The Autobiography of Tsujita: Part 4 of 8-part blog series

By Bok Tower Gardens | October 2, 2023

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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A Garden Opens Up the View: A Poem by Charles Santiago

By Bok Tower Gardens | September 25, 2023

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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The Autobiography of Tsujita: Part 3 of 8-part blog series

By Bok Tower Gardens | September 25, 2023

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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The Autobiography of Tsujita: Part 2 of 8-part blog series

By Bok Tower Gardens | September 18, 2023

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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The Autobiography of Tsujita: Part 1 of a 10-part blog series

By Bok Tower Gardens | September 11, 2023

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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A Butterfly Back from the Brink of Extinction

By Bok Tower Gardens | August 16, 2023

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 […]

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Catching Up With Conservation: Cooley’s Water-willow

By Bok Tower Gardens | August 7, 2023

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: The Question of Marriage (Chapter 9)

By Bok Tower Gardens | July 10, 2023

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 […]