Gotha in Orange County, Florida — The American South (South Atlantic)
Henry Nehrling's Palm Cottage Gardens
Photographed by Darren Jefferson Clay, June 16, 2023
1. Henry Nehrling's Palm Cottage Gardens Marker
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Henry Nehrling's Palm Cottage Gardens. . This site was home to Dr. Henry Nehrling (1853-1929), an internationally renowned horticulturalist, naturalist, botanist, ornithologist, and writer known as the "patron saint of Florida gardens." Here, and at his later Naples gardens, between 1886 and 1929, Nehrling introduced and tested over 3,000 new and rare species of plants and trees, as well as Florida native plants. Over 300 of these became essential to the state's ornamental horticulture, including caladiums, palms, bamboos, magnolias, amaryllis, Indian hawthorne, and crinum lilies. Nehrling's gardens became a mecca for plant lovers and a tourist destination in the early 1900s, and were visited by many prominent people, including President Theodore Roosevelt and renowned horticulturists David Fairchild and Liberty Hyde Bailey. Nehrling collaborated with the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and, in 1929, was awarded the Meyer Agricultural Explorer Medal. He was a founding member of the American Ornithological Union and the Florida Audubon Society, and wrote extensively on plants and birds. His most notable works include Our Native Birds of Song and Beauty, The Plant World in Florida, and My Garden in Florida.
This site was home to Dr. Henry Nehrling (1853-1929), an internationally renowned horticulturalist, naturalist, botanist, ornithologist, and writer known as the "patron saint of Florida gardens." Here, and at his later Naples gardens, between 1886 and 1929, Nehrling introduced and tested over 3,000 new and rare species of plants and trees, as well as Florida native plants. Over 300 of these became essential to the state's ornamental horticulture, including caladiums, palms, bamboos, magnolias, amaryllis, Indian hawthorne, and crinum lilies. Nehrling's gardens became a mecca for plant lovers and a tourist destination in the early 1900s, and were visited by many prominent people, including President Theodore Roosevelt and renowned horticulturists David Fairchild and Liberty Hyde Bailey. Nehrling collaborated with the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and, in 1929, was awarded the Meyer Agricultural Explorer Medal. He was a founding member of the American Ornithological Union and the Florida Audubon Society, and wrote extensively on plants and birds. His most notable works
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include Our Native Birds of Song and Beauty, The Plant World in Florida, and My Garden in Florida.
Erected 2012 by The Henry Nehrling Society, Rotary Club of Windermere, Windermere Garden Club, Bloom & Grow Garden Society, and the Florida Department of State. (Marker Number F-754.)
Location. 28° 32.041′ N, 81° 31.368′ W. Marker is in Gotha, Florida, in Orange County. It is on Hempel Avenue 0.2 miles north of Morton Jones Road, on the right when traveling north. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 2267 Hempel Ave, Gotha FL 34734, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Greater Orlando and in Central Florida. It is also in the American South. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, a Gulf of Mexico state, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically,
Photographed by Darren Jefferson Clay, June 16, 2023
2. Henry Nehrling's Palm Cottage Gardens Marker
it finds itself in what was once New Spain, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
Credits. This page was last revised on June 21, 2023. It was originally submitted on June 19, 2023, by Darren Jefferson Clay of Duluth, Georgia. This page has been viewed 494 times since then and 32 times this year. Photos:1, 2. submitted on June 20, 2023, by Darren Jefferson Clay of Duluth, Georgia. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.
