Jennifer Tyson, 43, the education coordinator at Sunken Gardens, pictured with the rainbow eucalyptus tree at Sunken Gardens on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020 in St. Petersburg.

Sunken Gardens opened in 1911, and is just a mile north of downtown St. Petersburg, but its four and a half acres of beauty might as well be a world away. "We do have so many tropical plants from ...

Education Coordinator Jennifer Tyson said people have been enjoying the nature and beauty of Sunken Gardens for more than 100 years, so it only makes sense to open an exhibit dedicated to the ...

According to Tyson, the story of these botanical gardens began in the early 1900s with a couple named George and Eula Turner. “They bought this property actually on George’s birthday.

The sign that Sunken Gardens put up in 2003 changed some of the colors and the V-shaped chevron. This sign recently came down and is being replaced with one that more closely resembles the original.

Our On the Town's Virginia Johnson takes us a to worm composting class at Sunken Gardens where you learn how to make your own compost.

Steve Sobers admired Lincoln's Sunken Gardens and the domed pavilion when he came to visit his daughter and son-in-law, Jennifer and Lee Johnson. The dome is a head-turner at night, said Sobers ...

St. PETERSBURG, Florida -- To everyone else, it was just an ugly sinkhole. To George Turner, it was a tropical paradise. He and his wife, Eula, saw something here nobody else did, and he had the ...