Kiley Garden News Today

Whataboutmomma won’t be the only group watching the past move into the rearview this weekend at Gasparilla Music Festival (GMF).

You only get one first time to do anything. Whataboutmomma and Gasparilla Music Festival (GMF) are about to experience that together in a big way.

The event is happening April 29-30 at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park.

Chuck Jablon, who grew up in St. Petersburg, sees building parks for Skanska USA's Tampa office as a way to give back to the community and to leave his stamp on Tampa Bay.

Landscape architect Dan Kiley is being honored at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts for his epic landscaping that spans across the country, including Kiley Garden in downtown Tampa, which a group of residents is working to restore.

At the Florida Botanical Gardens in Largo, walking paths wind through a variety of flowering shrubs, shady trees and dark ponds layered in vegetation. It’s quiet here, but for the trickling water of the fountains, the chirp of birds and the busy hum of bees. Regular visitors can find new ways to take in the sights. Focus on the abundance of color; no orange flower is the same, every shade of ...

Activists want to restore Tampa’s Kiley Garden, once a landscape marvel Years ago, its pools were filled with gravel, the water for the fountains and runnels shut off, and the canal and trees removed.   Updated May 3 TAMPA — It wasn’t a hot afternoon. It was in the low 80s with a breeze. But it felt hotter on the cloudless day in downtown Tampa’s shadeless Kiley Garden. “Anyone who lives in Tampa knows we need shade,” Jessie Stehlik said as she walked Coco, her ...