Before I flew to southwest Florida for a brief Christmas vacation, I asked my brother-in-law, Jonathan Darby, to set aside some time to visit the Edison & Ford Winter Estates, essentially museums that ...

Whether the first or 40th visit to the Edison & Ford Winter Estates, its behemoth banyan tree sprawling across the parking lot makes for a memorable entrance. With its wandering branches and ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. — The trees are the first surprise - a lush arboretum of rare plants that includes the largest banyan tree in the United States, occupying almost an acre of land. The plants are ...

I have been a tree lover for as long as I can remember. As a child growing up in Miami, Florida, we had a big ficus tree in our front yard that was a favorite for climbing. In my memory it was huge ...