Today we went for a morning swim, Barbara finished the curtains for the living room and we decided to go out for the rest of the day. We drove down Route 1 to Fort Pierce and went to Heathcote Botanical Garden (http://heathcotebotanicalgardens.org/). The Garden covers about 2 acres and has many different types of gardens. As you walk from one small garden to the next you get a sense of the diversity of plants that will grow in Florida’s climate. In the back of the garden there is a replica of a 1880’s frontier cabin. In the one room cabin you can see the fireplace at one end and how they put a door on each side for ventilation. They also have a Seminole chickee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickee), it did not have the raised floor of a true chickee but we think that is because they do not want children to crawl under it. I liked the Japanese garden with it’s coy pond and the bonsai collection. I also found a clump of Tropical Blue Bamboo which was a new variety for me and as you can see from the pictures it has a blue tint to it. It took us just over an hour to walk through the garden and we enjoyed it very much.
