Flamingo Gardens, Botanical garden in Davie, Florida
Flamingo Gardens is a 60-acre (24 ha) botanical garden and wildlife sanctuary at 3750 South Flamingo Road in Davie, Florida. Its grounds hold more than 3,000 tropical and subtropical plant species, including over 300 palms and a 200-year-old southern live oak. A narrated tram crosses a tropical rainforest, native hammock and wetland areas, and the Everglades aviary covers 25,000 square feet.
Floyd L. and Jane Wray bought the land in 1927 and built a weekend home, a citrus grove and a laboratory on what was then the edge of the Everglades, planting rare tropical and subtropical exotics, fruit trees and specimens gathered worldwide. The non-profit Floyd L. Wray Memorial Foundation was later set up to keep the property and its gardens intact. The Wray Home, built in 1933, is the oldest residence in Broward County west of University Drive.
The Wray Home, built in 1933 as a weekend residence for Floyd L. and Jane Wray, is the oldest residence in Broward County west of University Drive. Restored as a museum, it displays period objects and furnishings that show South Florida domestic life in the 1930s; guided tours run several times daily.
The narrated tram ride passes through the tropical rainforest, native hammock, wetland areas and exotic plantings, and guided tours of the Wray Home run several times a day. The site lies at 3750 South Flamingo Road in Davie, about 20 km southwest of Fort Lauderdale, and is open year-round for a fee.
In 2018, Flamingo Gardens became the first zoo to hatch and hand-rear an American flamingo chick in an incubator, from an egg laid in a mud-mound nest at the Flamingo Pond. Chicks had previously been raised from imported eggs. The Everglades aviary covers 25,000 square feet and holds one of the largest bird collections in the United States.
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