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Miami Beach Starts Million Orchid Project


June 21, 2017

Miami Beach City Commissioners have announced that the city will join the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden’s Million Orchid Project, whose goal is to plant twenty thousand native South Florida orchids on the island city over the next three years. This is a part of an effort between other municipalities such as Coral Gables and South Miami to bring back the prominence of orchids into urban and suburban areas, with the aim to revitalize the orchid population as a whole.

The project’s objective is not just to bring back native orchids but to restore the populations of endangered orchids such as the Florida dancing lady (named because its white flower resembles a woman dancing), the more famous butterfly orchid and the increasingly rare Florida cowhorn. Florida was once filled with orchids growing on the numerous oak trees throughout the city, but the removal of these in favor for palm trees along with poaching of the plants caused their rapid decline.

Now with the Million Orchid Project, orchids finally have a chance to make a comeback, but this will be left up to landscapers and residents. To make this process a bit easier for everybody, the residents of the city will use an app developed by Florida International University to keep track of the orchid growth.

This update is presented by the Miami Beach real estate team at Blackstone International Realty, specializing in the Murano Grande South Beach. If you are interested in Murano Grande condos for sale, then call one of the Murano Grande sales experts at 305-588-2451 for information on buying opportunities and rentals.