Stay at Sanibel Moorings and SAVE!

To coincide with the 20th Annual “Ding” Darling Days celebration,
Sanibel Moorings invites you to go Wild By Design!

Wild By Design Package - October 18 – 24, 2009

• 2 bedroom Courtyard View condo  
• Gift certificate for four (4) to Tarpon Bay Explorers Refuge Tram Tour  
• Admission for four (4) to Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum  
 
Includes:
• Field Guide to Lee County
• Canoe / kayak rental during your stay at Sanibel Moorings
• Sanibel Moorings Garden Tour

Head to Sanibel Moorings Ding Darling Days Package for more information and make your reservation today!

The Sanibel Moorings Resort has a new nighttime visitor blooming as we sleep. Our Night Blooming Cereus, Hylocereus undatus, is bursting with buds. Her extra large goblet shaped flowers ( 8-12 inches long) are silky white with numerous long yellow stamens.  And fragrant - ohh you never smelled a flower so musky sweet.

Read the rest of this article and see photos at Gardening in Paradise on our web site.

Sanibel Moorings’ guests and owners marvel at the plethora of periwinkles, palms, pink balls and powder puffs permeating the resort’s scenic island landscaping, and they gaze longingly at the lush fruit forming on the orange, grapefruit, banana, avocado and lemon trees as it ripens outside their windows.

With the recent addition of Master Gardener and nature expert Anita Marshall, everyone at Sanibel Moorings is in horticultural heaven. Although she thought the grounds were “already gorgeous” when she became the resort’s gardener in July 2008, Marshall has promised that the gardens are going to “get better and better and more beautiful,” and so far she’s off to a blooming start…

Read the rest of this article and see photographs on the Gardening in Paradise section of our web site.

Sanibel Moorings Resort on Sanibel Island is anxiously waiting a once in a lifetime bloom. Our Agave Americana Variegated, (lovingly nicknamed Audrey from The Little Shop of Horrors story) has reached her mature years at age 40ish and is approximately 8 ft tall and 8 ft wide. Its celebrative gigantic bloom…..

Read the rest of this story and see photographs on the Gardening in Paradise section of our web site.

The Gardens at Sanibel Moorings Resort are overflowing with many unusual, exotic, and native tropical plants. Join our gardener for an open to the public 1½ hour walking tour Wednesdays at 9am. A must see for plant lovers! RSVP is required. $5.00 fee per person.

Call Sanibel Moorings at 239.472.4119 for reservations and information.

Stay at Sanibel Moorings and SAVE!

- Stay 3 or 4 nights and SAVE 10% off the nightly rack rate.
- Stay 5 or 6 nights and receive ONE NIGHT FREE
or
- Stay 7 nights or longer and SAVE 5% on the Weekly Rate.

Visit the Sanibel Moorings web site to Check Availability and Make your Reservation today!