Secret, Reflection, Tropical, Bonsai & Japanese Garden Tours – Heathcote Botanical Gardens

A plant nursery on Heathcote Street in Scarsdale, New York, was the earliest seed of what has grown and blossomed into Heathcote Botanical Gardens.
Like many New Yorkers, the business was transplanted to Florida. In 1960 owners Jim and Mollie Crimmins moved the business from its original Florida location on west Orange Avenue to its current Fort Pierce site on Savannah Road.
Then in 1972 the Crimmins moved their family home from Delaware Avenue to the nursery site. Now known as Heathcote House, the Crimmins’ home was built around 1922.
Today the Frame Vernacular Style structure sits graciously amid old live oaks. Its second-floor balcony, Dade County pine floors, and quaint fireplace all add to its charm. It presently houses administrative offices. In 2001 the City Commission passed a resolution to designate it as a Historically Significant Site based on its architectural characteristics and ties to the life of the community.
Heathcote Botanical Gardens consists of an assortment of specialty gardens including a Japanese Garden, Reflection Garden, Herb Garden, Rainforest Display, Native Plants Garden, Secret Garden and a Palm & Cycad Walk. These areas convey an atmosphere of individual garden rooms. Through this type of garden design, you will sense the intimacy of this unique botanical garden. Gracing the areas in between these specialty gardens are borders of flowering shrubs, bulbs, trees, vines and other assorted herbaceous plants. Niches found throughout the garden provide varied microclimates, which allows the use of a wide variety of plants ranging from those found in Mediterranean climates to the Tropics.
Heathcote Botanical Gardens is located on the southeast coast of Florida, in USDA PLANT HARDINESS zone 10A, and has both native Florida flora as well as exotic flora from around the world. It is uniquely situated in a biological transition zone between a warm-temperate zone to the north and a subtropical zone to the south. A transition zone contains species that are characteristic of the adjacent region to its north and south, as well as species that occur only in the transition zone. In the botanical world this is advantageous because it allows for greater diversity, which means that one may grow many kinds of plants from around the world that live under conditions associated with three climatic zones.
Music… Remember Me – JR Tundra

Hello everyone I hope you’re having a beautiful day today we’ll be visiting the heath coat Botanical Garden the gardens are located in Fort Pierce Florida Garden hours are Tuesday through Friday 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Saturday at 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Sunday noon to 400 p.m. closed Monday and major

Holidays wow that is one tall Palm it looks like it has ban vilia growing beautiful look at this beautiful tree with all the pink blossoms it’s tall now is it a cherry it’s got pink blossoms got a nice little gift shop here so it is $10 for adults and $8 for

Seniors oh wow it is beautiful here look at that you that looks old and they’ve cropped the top I think it’s called cus so they have the screw Pine here and it originates from Asia and Australia so many plants that I couldn’t grow at home a lot of these are

Tropical those are not though they’re beautiful I I think we’re going to go over here to where the gate is or is there the Japanese garden here oh okay cool we real quick cuz it’s closed and not open this is for weddings they have a little Cinderella cart that’s all cast

Iron that is way cute I got Agave here oh look at that one’s In Bloom how pretty all right we’re going to go into the Bonsai Garden actually I think is what it is what succulent I don’t think yeah there’s a succulent before Asia it’s from Asia and India so this is

The James Smith Bonsai Gallery love the entrance there very beautiful oh let’s start over here so this is the Weeping fig too cool Texas eony this origin was the United States this is the fikus retusa origins Taiwan here we have the will Ficus the origin’s unknown they don’t know where you came

From it’s beautiful plant here we have the Willow Leaf Ficus as well same as the last Ficus Exotica Origins unknown I love the trunk of that it’s beautiful always loved Bonsai but never grown anymore Willow Leaf IUS Green Island Ficus from China orange Jasmine from China what was

That supposed be like the largest collection of tropical Bonsai in the Country Tropical Bonsai nice Jeff was just pointing out this dwarf jade elephant bush that’s interesting I love some of these trunks they’re just huge and they’re living in such small pots too cool it’s fig from South Africa

Looks like it’s lost a lot of its leaves not sure if that’s the way it’s supposed to look and we have the Willow Leaf Ficus Origins unknown and the Bogen vilia oh that’s like a the ban Vila and the origins for this is South America Bonnie black olive and this is from

Florida oh that’s beautiful another dwarf jade elephant bush that we saw then this one is hidden this one is the dwarf umbrella tree from Taiwan in training since 1978 some of these have been 40 50 years Jeff was just pointing out that some of these have been in

Training for 40 or 50 years another Willow Leaf Ficus and another one I like the base of this one here while that one does look like an older specimen and then there’s the willow leap Ficus again and again this one is the tiger bark Ficus and it’s from

Taiwan another Willow Leaf they seem to have plenty of willow leaves the Green Island Ficus from China dwarf umbrella I think we’ve seen one of those already from Taiwan and another Willow Leaf I love that water feature there very nice they have more over here but I believe

Believe it’s more of the same this one is a water Jasmine oh no that’s different T Co dwarf Jade that’s the same Brazilian rain tree and that one is from Brazil obviously tiger bark Ficus from Taiwan o that one looks pretty old There’s No Label though huh this is a

Hackberry d Jade or elephant Jade we’ve seen those here’s another Bogen Vila did you see the one that was growing up front Jeff the the vine it was beautiful it had flowers and stuff in it what is it a lizard Kellogg a lizard do you see the lizard Kellogg so

I think we’ve basically called all of them out these over here are the willow leaves and look at this huge structure that’s beautiful oh there’s another Bogen Vila looks like they’re just now training it see how they have the metal to train it in the way they want

To I guess they also protect it with electrical tape I will say this is probably one of the prettiest Gardens that we’ve been toach oh how to do the bons size nice more of the same Willow Lea Green Island huh now it’s just about just taking nice look at

Everything I love all the wooden features they have in here and all the stone that’s holding up the Bon size oh another lizard oh there’s like a whole family of them catalog where you at Cog huh you want to say hello to the family of lizards yeah I do like how they have

These water features tucked in okay look at this fogan vilia it has blooms all over it kind of like the vine up front I like how they train those into bons size seems like they have some kind of group thing up here yeah The Crate Myrtle it is

Deciduous it does lose its leaves in the winter another water feature like a half moon shape Kella come on get get get out of there silly they’re going to steal your dog je um so I didn’t know that I thought all Bonsai were ever green I didn’t know they did deciduous

Bonsai a boat oh it’s like a scene yeah nice that’s awesome kog no get he’s like I want to see you hear that lady she said she was going to steal your dog anyways that does conclude the Bonsai area that was amazing we’re going to continue on

There’s just so much more In Bloom than the other Gardens we’ve been here in Florida in the winter so which way are we supposed to go oh yeah look at that over there isn’t that beautiful In Bloom the last Garden we went to not a lot was in bloom

But we’re in February now so that’s beautiful I’m not sure what that is though I’m sure someone will know oh my God look at the giant blossoms on this tree I’m not sure it might be a bush how beautiful there’s so many interesting plants look at the Bloom on this looks

Like a furry pink caterpillar or mauve caterpillar those are so neat so so this is the front sector here they have a nice sitting area and look Jeff you can take a bath here they got a cast iron tub and all these beautiful plants with their different colored

Foliage now some of these don’t have or they do have the plant tags but they’ve been washed away I guess they put them by the sprinkers so you can’t read them anymore oh Kellogg look there’s a kitty cat all right we’re going to continue on this way

We do have a lot to see so I’ll try not to make too many stops we’ll just kind of walk and take a look the airplants again and then right here we have the fulls size umbrella tree this is not a bonsai compared to the last patch of

Bamboo we saw this is nothing that last patch was huge oh yeah look at the roots is there is that roots of the airplant yeah look at that it’s on a metal sculpture very neat wow there are definitely a lot of palms and tropicals here ferns all the

Way in the back what is this like this for your garden oh yeah this would be amazing for the garden and then they have zelas here thank you so they have an avocado here it seems like they’ve already cut it down but New Growth is come from

It huh interesting I don’t see any avocados on it though oh there’s a bigger patch of bamboo but still does not compare to the other they have some U here is this the Japanese garden well that was kind of like the one at the other botanical gardens in Gainesville

They had one of these but I like this one by the koi fish pond and this is a tribute to Teresa Li tin Luke wow love love koi pons oh and they got the bagoda lantern there oh another bagot more bonsai trees and they’ve hedged this

U oh I love the bridge like that bridge MooMoo oh look how big that koi is hello they seem to like the shallow and actually I believe koi do live in Shallow Waters they love they live in like puddles and stuff how awesome oh my God I wish I can

Definitely make my garden look like this oh wow what kind of tree tree is that has looks like multi stems or I don’t know if that’s Roots it’s very unusual and look how big the canopy is this is a nice little tucked in area fan palm oh a little place someone could

Read a book if I could have a piece of property like this I wouldn’t even want a home on it just just a garden that I can come to or live at visit whatever okay well that was it for the Japanese garden they cannot enter that way another bota that was the Koy

Pond and it just Loops back around this way to the Bonsai yeah I really do like the Bogen Villa Bonsai it’s beautiful they do have different colors but they’re using the pink here in this Garden okay oh look at all the brick work done here it’s beautiful oh there’s the kitty

Cat kog be good so here’s a closer shot of the aelas pink and In Bloom yeah that’s another they grow some big use here in Florida this is the second one I’ve seen that was so massive normally I’ve seen them in Hedges and stuff or smaller okay we split I think that goes

Back towards the front so let’s go this way oh there’s another one of those plants with the beautiful blooms look at that I love the colors has that soft pink and then the darker maroon is that a lily tree looks like it see I love that fuchsia got the bird of paradise plant

Here kind of looks like a banana you can tell with the blooms there that are coming out very unusual the Croton this is Morty from Southeast Asia that’s a whole hedge of them they have more croons over here mixed in with Palms I love that old

Cabin look at that uh porch how they use old wood it’s like a Pioneer’s cabin Pioneer house and then these are all the herb gardens oh look at the herbs they have pepper which is not really an herb dill mint and that’s parsley even though it’s

Not labeled I grow that so I know Italian parsley here the flat leaf look how big it’s gotten wow kind of reminds me of celery and I’m not sure what this is this is oh Teragon and they have Thai Basil in the back along with the regular basil and

Cinnamon basil and a patch of finnel and cilantro wow look at the cilantro flowering uhoh they got strawberries in the pot that’s look how big and juicy that looks that might go missing now wouldn’t I wouldn’t do that there’s tons of them so they have a rose bush here beautiful red color oh

Noam now this is or can be used in salads the flowers I’ve eaten the flowers before and the leaves and also made a tinure from this it’s good for it’s like a natural antibiotic it’s good for colds and stuff like that you have Mary Golds there the

Greek oregano thyme lemon thyme I think that’s Lavender in the back another rose bush and over here they have some chives Rosemary uh Cuban oregano and Sage I have a pretty extensive herb garden back at home but I don’t have all what grows here big toad

STS on there look at all the mushroom that are growing up there here’s some growing low and COG there he’s like it’s my step oh they are pretty hard oh really hard cool I want to check out this cool cabin historic replica 1880s Pioneer house I think it

Was built in April 2002 the best thing about the cabin in my opinion is the porch I love how they did natural wood railings here all the way around and of course you got to have the nice cool old rocking chair wow look at this door

Okay let’s go in and take a look oh nice fireplace oh look at the walls they’re plastered with old newspapers and got some old gardening equipment pickaxe some shovels a rake more stuff down here oh how cool I love old cabins oh look at some of these grinding and kitchen

Items meat grinder oh no that’s a corn grinder a fruit vegetable peeler a pulley used to lift heavy objects another peeler ice tongs I’ve seen those before a madic head not sure what that’s for wood Plains railroad spike seen those before hand drill oh look at that

Oh look at that old quilt do not touch that oh and here’s the bedroom with bunk beds and an old steamer’s trunk okay very neat I think the place does close at 4 so we don’t have that much more time let’s go ahead and continue on

I don’t think we have a lot more to see are you learning anything at the Outdoor Classroom you’re the only student what is it a stump didn’t know what the top was oh it’s a hat with a feather in it seminal cheeky Hut that’s pretty cool Trail around I like the roof

How they’ve used the Palm frons that’s way cool wonder if it actually keeps the rain out oh yeah it looks pretty sealed in there wow there’s so much to see here it’s hard to know which direction to go in oh there’s something over here too a vegetable garden seems like they have another

Seating area with a kids play area this is a children’s garden vegetable garden okay do we want to start over here then where you were headed Enchanted Forest Enchanted Forest yeah that sounds like me let’s go in the Enchanted Forest oh actually it’s called the enchanted trail with the ferns

Nice it’s not a very big loop build your own fairy house a how cool guess that’s for kids to do oh there’s a fairy lizard keep Kellogg back see him oh he’s he went into the vegetation he’s like nope oh there’s the wild coffee plant oh the mushroom it’s just hiding there I

Almost didn’t see it just Jeff noticed it here’s a little Gnome Village I have one of these back at home and look at this interesting birdhouse it’s very Marty gr so cool huh oh yeah look at all those kind of purple berries never seen anything like that

How unusual oh look at this that’s cool oh how nice everybody needs one of these in a fairy Garden we’re not going to loop back around cuz the word Garden is next oh another Gnome Village here inside of a barrel I like how they did that and Kellogg in the mushroom trying to catch the Gnomes did you find any gnomes don’t eat them they

Don’t want to be eaten no eating gnomes Kellogg oh a butterfly oh it was striped like a zebra how cool I’ve never seen one like that oh my God look it’s a panda bench so for those that might not know my other channel is actually called

Pandemonium oh my God I got to get a picture of Mumu too bad the sun is facing the wrong way I love all the benches here actually they’re all the mosaic nicely done we just have this big open field I think they’re actually plants that they’re propagating and maybe

Selling nothing much over here and their pile of compost this leads back to the Children’s [Applause] Garden love the thick canopy that they have here it’s nice shaded garden and I like how they’ve used the old top ties just along the Garden Path Edge look at it they have a bug Mansion

Here got some creepy creepy bugs beetles oh that’s a scary look at Hornet but yeah it’s pretty cool a place for the bugs to go in the winter well I guess they can live in there year round there is a b box here these need wild

Places I’m not sure if you can read that but if you want to pause and read you’re welcome to it next we’ll be looking at the vegetable garden planted and maintained by Garden Club of Fort Pierce together with Heath coat Gardens H now remember it is winter season so oh look they have

The black ey Susan vine at the fence this first bed here they’ve got kale and onions growing and the next bed is a green Comet oh it’s broccoli okay and then they’ve got eggplant growing here oh those look a little rough at the end and then what’s that

Okra it’s going there another pepper plant what is this how does that look like honeysuckle I’m not sure what that is but it’s variegated nice little shady area under this shade tree this tiny shade tree all right so they have another planter with peppers in it they have bib lettuce

Growing two rows then that looks like broccoli again we got Tomatoes along the fence here oh and some papaya there’s three of them oh that looks like it needs to be harvested yeah the fruit at the bottom is starting to go moldy more Tomatoes all the way to the

End there and then collared greens here nice more peppers and another tomato wow it’s nice that they can grow peppers all year long look at that that’s a pretty bell pepper it’s called the big Bera not sure what this pepper is another bell pepper wow that one is a big Bera it’s

Huge okay and then they have broccoli here and then another tomato nice I think this is more broccoli that’s what it looks like that’s bolted they even have a small Grill bag with strawberries in it oh I think this is malbar spinach it is how cool I’ve always

Wanted to grow this but it does not like the cold so I don’t grow it and more strawberry and more malbar spinach all right that was nice bye vegetable garden okay let’s continue on Jeff was nice to watch the dogs while I T that research Garden word Garden we’ve

Been to little free library and restrooms right I actually think that that’s the end oh look at the little Playhouse that’s cute do what it’s supposed to be butterfly Gard oh the butterfly garden I love butterfly gardens you can go ahead I can get moomo

If you need me to grab her she’ll just follow me stay Mumu good girl nice they have some flowers growing here I love that terracotta fish pot see sweet Golden Rod it’s just now starting to come up can’t tell what some of these are off season tropical

Sage is that all the butterflies that they have here maybe that was the one we saw the strip oh yeah it is it was the it’s a zebra helic Conan nice so here’s all of the Florida butterflies on the knowledge they have well this just tells

You about their wings and the types the wing patterns Wing colors ooh there’s a green one that’s beautiful and then the butterfly Circle of Life believe everybody knows that it goes and you get the butterfly here’s all the different butterflies that they have there’s a lot of

Them oh that’s a beautiful one the blue one there it’s a pipe Bine swallow tail H wow so many to see oh there’s another one here oh that’s the same thing the zebra oh no this is a zebra swallow tail there’s a couple different

Ones but I think the one we saw was a zebra helic cornia okay now this is getting a little closer to what we saw at the other place still not as big but wait are those bamboos those are not bamboos they are a palm I was looking at

The Bas and it looks just like bamboo but no it’s a palm huh oh I think I know what that is these are huge I’ve never seen them they’re usually yay tall up about here I’ve never seen them this freaking tall they really like their spot here you got to

Kneel down here you what now you got to kneel down here I got okay here cuz it’s mainly for children wait hold on okay M usually I take the picture of you being the butterfly but this time I’m going to be the butterfly yeah see I think this is yeah for

Kids perfect another one of these I think the last one was different this one’s actually a tree form the other one seem more bushy even the Lea structure was different but that’s beautiful the rainforest oh there’s more just never [Applause] ending okay now those are definitely bamboo those are pretty [Applause]

Tall they have some airplants growing right there you can actually walk back here there’s a path all the different [Applause] airplants oh my God what I think Jeff found something and let’s go see what he found alien alien oh my goodness wow isn’t that beautiful wow that does look like an

Alien plant it’s a beautiful red color with purple little flowers I guess that’s what you call them I guess we’re going to go this way it’s just a little circle nice Stone Bridge no fish that’s a shame oh like the fountain back there surrounded by the ferns Kellogg look at the

Gorilla he’s like no no look at this Grill that is too cool it’s Mosaic I like how they did all the beep work and stuff very cool even the face is done nicely it does say post your photos on social media Come Grow With US unfortunately we did not get a photo of

Kellog riding the gorilla oh what are these they are the kangaroot fern and that is from C Central America very beautiful all these have such unusual Bloom stocks look at that another Pond and cement Bridge or stone bridge more bird of paradise you can tell with the bird of

Paradise because the way the stock it does look like a banana but it’s kind of flat and then it grows from the side each stock where the banana is more of a round stock I guess the bird of paradise is round at the bottom but it’s until it

Gets to the top it gets more flat and spreads out like feathers so we have the Amazon Lily here it looks like it’s almost going to bloom very pretty tropical jungle more bemade look at that stock there that’s bright red that’s interesting no Cog there’s no lizards back

There okay I think we’re done with this and then at the arbor they have this honeysuckle vine it’s huge and massive how pretty tropical garden is extended past this bye Kellog more airplant stag horn Fern very cool huh they have this Magnolia growing in this very shady location I thought

Magnolia’s liked Sunny locations but it seems like it’s doing well all right think that is [Applause] it yep PR brings us back up to the front what a wonderful garden to come visit have more brades up front look at this one that’s beautiful it’s kind of a light green Bloom stock another cool

Mosaic bench and that does it well I hope you enjoyed this Garden Tour don’t forget if you want to subscribe do that down below or like and and share this video we’ll see you next time bye for Now