Sunken Gardens
Location: St. Petersburg, FL
Date Submitted: Spring 2001
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Located on 4th Street and 18th Avenue, admission is $5 for adults. This garden is remarkable with some plants having survived many of the worst freezes of the past 80+ years, demonstrating St Petersburg as being one of the warmest areas for so far north in Peninsular Florida.
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Traveler's Palm This photo was taken looking almost straight up. These trees have enormous trunks, they look as though they most be 40 to 50 feet tall.
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Screw Pines with Fruit/seed pods
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Another view of a mature screw pine.
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Queen Sago (Cycas Rumph.)
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Teddy Bear Palm The garden generally has many very old specimens of long established palms, however most seem to be examples of the limited number of species available in the past. This young palm is part of some new plantings now that many more species are available in an effort to add more diversity to the garden.
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King Alexander palms in the foreground, royal palms behind in the distance.
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30 foot butterfly palms behind a waterscape
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Looking from under the shade of a screw pine, you can see a lovely piccabean palm.
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A spendid example of Sunken Garden's famous Royal Palms.
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Adding diversity, a young bismarckia palm.
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What a splendid view, the ground is carpeted with geraniums.
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A pretty view past a reclining traveler's palm trunk, one can see tree sized crotons, dracenea trees, fishtails and tree ferns.
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Caryota mitis is everywhere in the garden and nearly all have tons of ready to pick see.
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A nice patio under the king palms and other jungle foliage.
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Spindle Palm in the flamingo cage area.
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A stag horn fern bonded to the trunk of a large grapefruit tree.
