Sarasota Jungle Gardens is a tropical paradise located in North Sarasota, near the Ringling Museum. It is definitely OOOOOLD Florida, as in it was started in the early 1930’s and was once visited by Albert Einstein. And here’s one of my favorite parts, when exotic species don’t make it through a frosty winter, they now replace the exotics with native Florida plants and grasses.
Did Al Einstein see this staghorn fern in diapers? Cause it is OLD…
It’s like the opening credits of the old Miami Vice shows with the flamingos. They run this joint.
It’s ok, you can take a big deep breath, the Gardens prohibits most pesticides and herbicides.
this peacock was a co-runner of the joint when we were there in 2010
After making the peacock photo from inside the snack shop, I was told by an employee that this peacock showed up in the Gardens some years ago and likes the place so much that he never left. Nobody knows how he got there and nobody bothers him. That theme of animals who outgrew or needed rescue from their former lives is a running theme for a lot of the Gardens’ animals. Now THAT is TRULY FLORIDA!
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