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August 12, 2010 - 10:30 A.M.
Welcome to The Crooked Garden
This beautiful garden is made possible by the generous
contributions of our Pelican Preserve residents.
We hope that you
will be a
frequent visitor to this website to keep in touch with the transformations
being
made in the garden.
Noted Butterfly
expert, Robert Michael Pyle, Ph.D.
"And the kind dentist, Dr Alan Rembos [of Naples, Florida], tipped me off
to the Crooked Garden in Pelican Preserve, Fort Myers --
one of the best [butterfly gardens] I've ever seen.
Amid oceans of nectar and a flurry of
butterflies,
I saw 12 species, including queens, zebras, and orange-barred sulphurs
the size of small birds."
Read more about our famous CROOKED GARDEN VISITOR: Noted
lepidopterist and prolific writer, Robert M. Pyle, Ph.D.
Click on this You Tube video to see
an Arial view of our huge 17,345 sq. ft. butterfly garden:
Click here
to see a video of the butterfly plants in the Crooked Garden.
"There is a crooked garden with
crooked little paths,
And crooked little caterpillars crawling through the grass.
There are crooked little butterflies enjoying garden treats,
and all these wonders here to view, from our crooked garden seats."
James Price, Garden Curator
Where
is this Crooked Garden?
Pelican Preserve
10571
Veneto Drive ~Fort Myers, Florida 33913
Phone: 239-985-1600
This 17,345 Sq. Ft. open air Butterfly Garden is Located in the
fifty-five and Better,
Community of Pelican Preserve.
The community is just one mile East
of I-75 and a half mile South of Colonial Boulevard on Tree Line Blvd.,
in the beautiful
city of Fort Myers, Florida.
The garden is situated a short distance North of the tennis courts and the
softball field, and is adjacent to the
white picket fenced vegetable garden on the Western side of our
39 acre Nature Preserve.
Photos taken by the Crooked Garden Curator, September-October
2009
We hope that you enjoy our Crooked Garden website, and that you take the time to
navigate these pages to learn
about our butterflies and the plants that they use for food and reproduction.
Please take the time to visit the Financial Contributors, and the
Contributors of Time and Talent pages too,
because these people are the
reason
that we have what many are calling, "The Treasure" of Pelican Preserve.
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