Selby ranked among country's top 10 botanical gardens

A recent survey has rated Marie Selby Botanical Gardens among the best botanical gardens in the U.S. Selby Gardens has placed third in the USA Today’s 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards in the Best Botanical Garden category. 

According to a news release, nominees were chosen by a panel of relevant experts including editors from USA Today and from 10Best.com. Selby Gardens was among 20 gardens nominated. Voting by the public between Feb. 5 and March 4 narrowed the list down to the top 10. 

“We want to thank the Sarasota community and supporters of Selby Gardens for voting for us,” said Selby Gardens President and CEO Jennifer Rominiecki in the news release. "Thanks to you, Selby Gardens is receiving national recognition, and we can continue to broadly showcase our mission of providing bayfront sanctuaries connecting people with air plants of the world, native nature, and our regional history.”

Selby Gardens comprises the 15-acre downtown Sarasota campus and the 30-acre Historic Spanish Point campus in Osprey. The downtown campus recently completed the first of three phases of its master plan expansion and renovation.