The Kampong, a botanical garden in Coconut Grove.This is a spot I never even knew existed. It is a place that I would really want to go to. Explore a little bit and take some pics. No better time to get the traveling bug in motion. It's an 11 acre garden and it is one of five gardens belonging to the National Tropical Botanical Garden. Below is a little summary of the gardens contents. 
Today the Kampong's living collections include tropical fruits including pomelo, 23 cultivars of avocado, and 65 varieties of mango, palms, flowering trees, ficus, aroids, and bamboo [4]. This garden serves as the mainland campus for the NTBG. Major aspects of the Kampong include:
- The Fairchild-Sweeney House - designed by architect Edward Clarence Dean, constructed in 1928, as a combination of Spanish and Balinese influences. Visitors included Thomas Edison and Henry Ford.
- Schokman Education Center - addition completed in 2007.
- Mangrove preserve - one of the largest areas of salt-water mangrove forest in the area, containing all four mangroves native to the area, as well as Bruguieria gymnorhiza from the Philippines.
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