The Secret Garden Tour of Coconut Grove
is the signature event of the Secret Garden Preservation Society. The tour promotes tree preservation and gardening to keep Coconut Grove green 💚 🦚
The Tour was founded to inspire people to preserve the Grove’s heritage trees, plant more, and cut less. For the past six years, the Tour has showcased private, tree-canopied gardens of all sizes and styles, demonstrating what is possible and why preserving trees and planting gardens is important in the face of rampant over-building
on Grove properties.
We are committed to educating homeowners about tree care and preservation through tutorials, shared resources, and helping with the remediation of strangler figs.
Advocating for the preservation of heritage trees, putting shovels in the ground, and encouraging people to continue gardening is our mission.
All proceeds support the Secret Garden Tours of Coconut Grove and our initiatives to further this cause.
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The Secret Garden Tour
of Coconut Grove.
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Help Keep The Grove Green
Offer your garden for a future Secret Garden Tour
We feature gardens of all sizes and styles, and make participation easy and fun for our garden owners. Plus, it's a great motivator to get all those garden projects you've been meaning to do, done!
Donate to support the SGPS
Donate to support the Secret Garden Preservation Society’s operating costs, which fund the Secret Garden Tours. In turn, the Tour revenues will fund initiatives that educate and support tree preservation in Coconut Grove.
Tree Saving Tips
Save your trees from being strangled by killer fig vines!
Early Detection and Removal
Pull seedlings when they’re small. Birds drop fig seeds into palm boots, tree crotches, roof gutters, and even walls — they sprout fast.
If caught early, seedlings can simply be hand-pulled or pruned off before they root deeply.
REMOVING Young Growth
If a fig has started wrapping around a host tree but is still thin, cut back the aerial roots and stems and pull it off the host tree.
Cut-and-Paint Method
For thicker figs: cut the trunk or main roots close to the ground, then immediately apply a brush or spray-herbicide to the stumps.
This prevents resprouting — otherwise the fig will COME BACK !
You may have to get out your chainsaw! The new battery-operated ones are quite effective. If DIY is not your thing, call in your tree specialist.
Support SGPS’s efforts to keep Coconut Grove green with the purchase of this gorgeous 12-month wall calendar, featuring photos of Secret Gardens from past tours and The Grove’s most spectacular trees.
Calendars are available for local pickup in Coconut Grove.