Education Center
Our Education Center features family friendly learning activites, garden related classes for the community and special guest speakers. Educational materials about plants and native wildlife are on display for visitors to explore. The building is also the location of our Dragonfly Gift Shop, where you can buy Lake Lure Flowering Bridge keepsakes, as well as products created by local artists.
Education Center
Our Education Center features family friendly learning activites, garden related classes for the community and special guest speakers. Educational materials about plants and native wildlife are on display for visitors to explore. The building is also the location of our Dragonfly Gift Shop, where you can buy Lake Lure Flowering Bridge keepsakes, as well as products created by local artists.
Education Programs
Since our beginning in 2011 education has been a big part of our mission. We offer classes and workshops on horticulture, environmental science, arts and crafts and family learning activities for garden visitors. We will also have special guest speakers from the horticultural community.
Education materials are on display for visitors to explore.
Hurricane Helene
We broke ground on our new Education Center in 2021 and progress was swift until Hurricane Helene struck in September 2024. While the partially completed building was flooded, it miraculously survived the storm.
We’d like to say a big thank you to local contractors, K Enterprises, Inc., for their insights and excellent construction of the building. We want to shout out a very big “Thank you” to Keys Open Doors Foundation for providing us a grant that paid for almost all of the new equipment, supplies and displays that are now in the center. And, most of all we thank all of our generous supporters who have helped us make this dream a reality.