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    A FLORIDA TREASURE

    Feb 25, 2021 6 minutes

    AFTER PUTTING my flower beds, lawn and vegetable garden to sleep for the long New England winter, I look forward to spending time in Florida, where I enjoy looking at other people’s neatly tended beds, lawns and vegetable gardens. It’s not that I don’t appreciate a decent snowstorm that fosters magical transformations reminiscent of my youth or gives me an opportunity to skate on a frozen pond or ski for “one more year.” I just do not crave it as much as I used to. Two weeks of a frosty Currier & Ives wonderland about does it for me now.

    Plus, the 1,200 mile drive down and back up I-95 or I-81 affords me the chance to see many attractions, including botanical gardens, arboreta and assorted parks that preserve and showcase diverse collections of native and imported plants from around the world. Over the course of a couple of decades of crisscrossing Florida, I’ve discovered many interesting gardens, some quite old.

    Before the major theme parks were developed mid-state in the ’60s and ’70s, there were

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