The Fairchild Image Library - The Garden

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The Liberty Hyde Bailey Palm Glade

Sparkling light and color

Lakes and meadows punctuated by palms

Fairchild education programs give children and their teachers an opportunity to explore and enjoy nature.

Popular outdoor winter concerts are performed on the lawn at Fairchild Tropical Garden.

The Garden's conservatory, Windows to the Tropics, shelters tropical plants too tender to survive even Miami's mild winters.

The Fairchild Explorer program gives South Florida students an opportunity for hands-on discovery of the tropical environment.

The palms and tropical flowering trees of the lowlands are silhouetted against the pastels of evening.

Windows to the Tropics is a 16,428 square foot conservatory.

Fairchild Tropical Garden was established in 1938.

Lake view

Tall palms on a grassy green island grace a lowland lake.

Each year, visitors from 50 U.S. states and more than 100 countries enjoy the tranquil beauty of Fairchild Tropical Garden.

The Gate House Museum is a local historic landmark, built in 1939 and restored in 1995.

The Montgomery Palmetum offers an ever-changing vista of palms.

Pathways through the Garden lead visitors into peaceful, shady groves

The Richard E. Danielson Vine Pergola is a display of tropical flowering vines.

The rainforest display contains true rainforest species collected from tropical forests in Latin America and other locations.

The Garden's collection of palms is renowned throughout the world.

Rows of stately royal palms line the southern pathway leading to lowland gardens and natural areas.

The 83 acres of Fairchild Tropical Garden offer tranquil beauty just a short distance from busy city centers.

An authentic rainforest stilt home constructed in 1994 by native Chachi people during a month-long visit.

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