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PRIZED POSSESSIONS When
Roberto Burle Marx visited
Jungles in Miami, he would bring
some of his art and Jungles
would help him sell it, earning
a commission for his efforts.
Instead of pocketing the money,
however, he would turn around
and buy Burle Marx's art for
himself. Now these works hang in
his studio and home.
NAMED AFTER HIM Jungles
found a tall bromeliad with dark
foliage and a pink flower on one
of his Burle Marx pilgrimages and
brought it to Bullis Bromeliads, a
wholesale nursery in Princeton,
Florida, to propagate so he could
use it in his work. The nursery
called it Portea Jungles. It's now
one of their best-sellers and
available at other nurseries as well.
READ ALL ABOUT IT Every five
years or so, Jungles publishes a
book chronicling his latest work.
There have been four books so
far, with Beyond Wild, the most
recent, published just last year.
FAVORITE PLANT The live oak
tree because "it provides so
much habitat," Jungles says.
PLANT DESERVING MORE
ATTENTION Red Mangrove,
a silhouette of which appears
on the Raymond Jungles, Inc.
letterhead: "It's very sculptural,"
he says. "It provides habitat. It
grows in fresh and salt water—
how many plants do that?"
MORE ON THE MASTER
Overgrown, relaxed
vegetation and
ethereal light were
the focal points of
the landscape at
Golden Rock Inn, a
centuries-old sugar
plantation in Nevis.
