The 78-year-old museum is set to reopen after a 59,000-square-foot expansion that reorients its entrance and adds a sculpture garden
The 19-foot-tall Typewriter Eraser, Scale X, by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, stands in the Heyman Plaza, w
Robert Ganger holds his Judge James R. Knott Historical Contribution Award,
flanked by J. Grier Pressly III (left), chairman of the board of the Historical Society
of Palm Beach County, and Harvey Oyer III.
Photo provided by Capehart Photography
Joewood is a slow-growing shrub with inedible green fruit.
BELOW: Jacquemontia is a native vine with stunning blue blooms.
Both plants are salt-tolerant, making them ideal for our neighborhoods.
Photos by Jerry Lower and Susan Lerner
By Deborah S. H
Swiss chard can come in many colorful varieties.
Michael Page says that tending the vegetable garden at Mounts Botanical Garden is a relaxing task.
Chinese cooking staple bok choy.
Amethyst bush beans will turn green when cooked.
Photos by Jerry Lowe
The nonprofit garden celebrated the hurricane-delayed groundbreaking of ‘Windows on the Floating World:
Blume Tropical Wetland Garden,’ expected to open in spring 2017. The new exhibit will educate visitors
about the importance of water conservation.
Maria Abbenante and her son Angelo pause inside Lynora’s Restaurant on Clematis Street
in West Palm Beach. Maria and her husband, Rafaelle, who live in Point Manalapan, came out
of retirement in 2014 to open the eatery with Angelo. Maria shuns canned
MANALAPAN — William E. “Bill” Quigley, loving husband, cherished brother, beloved uncle and loyal friend, passed away peacefully at his Manalapan home on April 7. He was surrounded by love, the beauty of the music he cherished throughout his life
‘Hello, mamas!’ says the sign on the new portable breastfeeding and pumping station
at Palm Beach International Airport. The 5- by 9-foot portable lactation suite,
located past the security checkpoint across from Gate C1, includes seating, an electri
Palm Beach International Boat Show
offers boats, yachts and accessories,
along with seminars for kids and adults
Last year’s Palm Beach International Boat Show displayed hundreds of boats
moored at temporary floating docks and sitting on trailers alo
Dave Wesolowski, community outreach coordinator, sorts through a tub of donated leashes,
collars and harnesses at Peggy’s Pantry on the Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League campus in West Palm Beach.
Taylor Jones/The Coastal Star
By Arden Moore
What
The Pool by artist Jen Lewin has been exhibited around the country, including at SXSW Interactive 2013.
By Janis Fontaine
The city of West Palm Beach is going to make a big splash with its latest production.
Summer In Paradise is a month’
A frangipani bloom at the Mounts Nursery.
Extracta green sage.
Tom Hewitt (left) speaks to customers at the Mounts Nursery.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
Anyone who visits Mounts Botanical Garden in West Palm
In Boynton Beach, Steven Michael’s Hudson Holdings bought a 1.35-acre parcel along Northeast Sixth Avenue, just south of the city Community Redevelopment Area called Ocean Breeze East. It paid $1.1 million for the land in April 2013.
Then it
Shorty Rossi will bring his pit bull Hercules to the Amazing Pet Expo
at the South Florida Fairgrounds.
Photo provided
By Arden Moore
Shorty Rossi, with his signature fedora and thick cigar, will headline the Amazing Pet Expo at the South Florid
The grounds of the Freedom North Lakeside Garden provide
a healing place for people to be with nature including coral honeysuckle (below).
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
As you sit on a wooden bench in the sh
Best-selling author and Palm Beach resident James Patterson, along with wife Sue, a Dreyfoos School of the Arts Foundation board member, sponsored a sold-out performance of the school’s annual Prism Concert. For the second consecutive year, the P
Cherokee purple tomatoes from Farmhouse Tomatoes, available at the West Palm Beach GreenMarket.
Photos by Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Customers check out spices for sale at the Delray Beach GreenMarket.
Christy’s Bakery offers an array of pastries
In the studio (l-r): Parkinson’s Foundation volunteer Heidi Rosenberg tells radio listeners
about her fundraising venture Pretzels for Parkinson’s while Stuart Perlin,
Dr. Cenk Sengun and Jeff Dowd look on.
Paula Detwiller/The Coastal Star
By Pau
A pair of Dioon mejiae guards the front entrance to the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens.
Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
Find yourself a parking space on Barcelona Road in West Palm Beach. Now walk
The magenta blooms of the Brazilian cloak tower
over Gene Joyner, a contrast to the orange and yellow
of the helconia behind him. He served as Palm Beach
County/University of Florida Extension’s urban
horticulturist for 35 years.
Photos by Jerr
