Montgomery Botanical Center

A nonprofit botanic garden established in 1959, Montgomery Botanical Center keeps living specimens from wild plant populations worldwide. Emphasizing palms and cycads, the population-based, documented, scientific collections are available for study in Montgomery's 120-acre botanical garden of exemplary design.

Montgomery Botanical Center is the living legacy of Robert and Nell Montgomery, widely known as the founders of Fairchild Tropical Garden (now Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden). Housed on their 120-acre Coral Gables estate, it included the largest and finest private collections of palms and cycads in the world. As a living tribute to her late husband, in 1959 Nell created The Montgomery Foundation, Inc.—later renamed the Montgomery Botanical Center (MBC)—as an independent, nonprofit institution devoted to advancing the science of tropical botany.

Dr. M. Patrick Griffith introduces Montgomery Botanical Center.Montgomery Botanical Center's mission is to advance science, education & conservation of tropical plants, emphasizing palms and cycads. Montgomery Botanical Center keeps living plants from around the world in population-based, documented, scientific collections in a 120-acre botanical garden exemplifying excellent design.

Montgomery Botanical Center, Coral Gables, FL. 846 likes · 21 talking about this · 391 were here. Advancing Research, Education and Conservation through Scientific Plant Collections.

The Montgomery Botanical Center (120 acres), originally known as the Montgomery Foundation, is a nonprofit botanical garden and institution located at 11901 Old Cutler Road, Coral Gables, Florida. It collects seeds from wild plant populations worldwide, with an emphasis on palms and cycads. The garden is a scientific research facility, and not generally open to the public.