Heathcote Botanical Gardens

Heathcote is a non-profit, 501 (C)3 educational foundation that bills itself as the "Green Heart of the Treasure Coast."

Other garden plants include: bamboo, a banyan tree, bromeliads, Clerodendrums, Clusia rosea, Coccoloba uvifera, Codiaeum sp., crotons, Encephalartos gratus, orchids, Pandanus utilis, Petrea volubilis, philodendrons, pineapple, Podocarpus gracilior, Tillandsias, and Zamia pumila.

The more than 100 specimen bonsai range from a huge buttonwood, estimated to be 200 years old, to a magnificent, twin-trunk Jaboticaba, originally styled by John Naka in 1973.

[5] He learned from some of the most famous bonsai masters in the world including John Naka and Toshio Saburomaru.

For decades, Smith conducted a free monthly workshop at his Durastone Nursery on Old Dixie Highway.

Heathcote Botanical Gardens
This magnificent formal upright Ficus greets visitors entering the main gate to the James J. Smith Bonsai Collection. It is more than four feet across.
Thousands of visitors flock to the bonsai pavilion during Garden of Lights to have their children's pictures taken with Heathcote the Bear.