Timucuan Oaks Botanical Garden
4500 block of South Peninsula Drive
Timucuan Oaks Botanical Gardens is an 8-acre site acquired in 2004 with the assistance of the Trust for Public Land and funded with a grant from the Florida Communities Trust. This park is the first parcel noted in the Land Acquisition Committee’s Ponce Preserve Conservation project that the Town successfully acquired.
Four natural communities can be found in this park: shell mound, maritime hammock, salt marsh and mangrove swamp. A variety of native plants thrive here including coontie, palmettos, leather ferns, beauty berry, goldenrod, cedars, oaks and mangroves.
An archaeological survey of this property is planned for the summer of 2007 to determine the extent of the historic and cultural resources on the property. This will help us in locating future improvements which include nature trails with education signage, a playground and bocce court, a wildlife viewing tower and boardwalk with canoe launch that will access Daggett Creek.
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