A rich soothing fragrance emanates from the yellow flowers of rippled petals resembling the undulating waves, blooms off the branches of the garden's Ylang-ylang trees, greets the garden's guests entering from the entry plaza and immediately sets the congruous ambience of the garden's many floral offerings of Orchids, Ariods and Bergonias.

Comes the iconic red bridge, inspired by Japanese cultural sensibilities, that stands over the pond occupied by water lilies. From its vertex, visitors are offered a panoramic view of the surrounding scenery of Japanese influence containing the flourishing resolute upright tropical bamboo and playful red powder puffs of the diminutive powder puff trees. Throughout the garden, visitors will find amidst this garden of passive beauty drama stirs. Within many of the water features that pepper the park, there is expressive life unlike the flowers and fruits to be found, with the largest pond being home to kois, and another, smaller pond, to turtles, contribute to the richness of biodiversity of the gardens that bestows unto its visitors a sense of calm amongst thriving life, in addition to the tender fluttering of butterfly wings found in the Butterfly Garden and Native Garden.

In taming the ambitious fury of nature to serve a mutually beneficial role to modern men, Miami Beach Botanical Gardens is a testament of the realizable potential of man to coexist with nature. So, when the binary delight of sapphire seas and sparkling sands whittles under a sweltering sun too merciless, fall into manicured nature's embrace composed of florid florality and expansive emerald landscapes, in this the city of concrete, glass, sand and sea, and let mother nature bear it all.