Miami Lakes Garden Club

The Flamingo Gardens Orchid Society meets every 2nd Monday evening at Flamingo Gardens

Florida’s Flower Force — inside the Flamingo Gardens Orchidteers South Florida has its own special forces. They’re organized, mission-driven and spread out across the front lines every week. Their assignment? Orchids.

Thank you to the Tropical Audubon Society! (please read the article below)

A Win for Wildlife & Wetlands:
GMX Scraps 14-mile 836 Extension!

In an action that reflects the consistent position our organization (Tropical Audubon Society) has taken over many years, the Greater Miami Expressway Agency (GMX) has voted to abandon the proposed 14-mile Kendall Parkway extension of SR 836, instead directing staff to consider a shorter, 4-mile elevated extension to Southwest 8th Street. The original proposal would have extended a major toll road beyond Miami-Dade County’s Urban Development Boundary (UDB), and deeper into environmentally sensitive Everglades wetlands in western Miami-Dade County.

While financial and cost/benefit considerations appear to have influenced the decision, this outcome also underscores years of advocacy, public engagement, scientific analysis and legal action that highlighted the project’s significant environmental risks. According to a June 11 Miami Herald report, potential environmental impacts factored into their decision: “GMX leaders contend other planned improvements of local roads that already connect the 836 to Kendall — the widening of Southwest 137th and 157th Avenues — weaken the case for spending billions on a multi-lane expressway that would be built on environmentally sensitive lands in the western part of Miami-Dade," — issues TAS has been raising for years.

From the Tropical Audubon Society:

Color your garden 'Wild' at our annual Go-Native Plant Sale!
https://tropicalaudubon.org/go-native-plant-sale-2026?emci=bf71e848-1053-f111-8ef2-000d3a14b640&emdi=5fc67b97-1859-f111-8fcb-000d3a18905c&ceid=11600805

Want to give your garden a botanical glow that's also great for wildlife? Florida native plants can put on a show. Think sunshine yellow, powder pink, bright white, ruby red, and the gloriously gaudy fuchsia American Beautyberry. This isn’t just eye candy. Native blooms and berries attract butterflies, bees and songbirds, transforming any garden into a chorus of fluttering wings, buzzing bees and sweet birdsong.

Saturday, June 6, 9-3 RAIN or SHINE!

LOCATION: 5530 Sunset Drive, Miami, 33143. Limited onsite parking via our 55th Avenue Auto Gate.
Plants Galore & More!

Discover our Doc Thomas House
Parking: Limited on-site parking via the 55th Avenue entry gate; metered parking on Sunset Drive; various garage within 1-3 blocks; Metrorail service to South Miami Station.

Tropical Audubon Society
5530 Sunset Drive
Miami, FL 33143
United States

To view the Florida Wildflower Foundation's webinar on Florida's bees go to this website: (The recording will be posted here by Friday, May 22.). They have some other very interesting recordings, also.

Webinar recordings - Florida Wildflower Foundation Recordings of the Foundation’s past webinars are posted below.