Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables, Florida, features a two-acre, open-air tropical rainforest exhibit, the only of its kind in the continental United States.

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I've called the Petersburg area home for four years now, and I can tell you this is not an easy place to be a gardener. Incessant rain, lack of warmth and sun, sour peat soil and hungry wildlife all ...