10/02/2026
🤔 What color might you imagine if you heard the joyous, boot-stomping melody of composer Aaron Copland’s Hoe-Down? Or the sword-rattling energy of Aram Khachaturian’s Sabre Dance? The eerie mystique of Camille Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre?
🎼 The Naples Philharmonic invited Naples Botanical Garden to jointly create a special “Trip to the Phil” experience for Collier County Public School District fifth and seventh graders. Garden educators, including Megan Sinclair (pictured here), and Conductor Manuel López-Gómez invited their young audience to “see” yellow, orange, purple, and other colors as they listened to the orchestra’s selections.
🎨Drawing from last season’s ChromaFlora exhibition, educators showed students vibrant photos and offered fun facts about the Garden’s collection. Did you know: Fewer than 1 in 10 plants in nature are blue? That many night-blooming plants are white to attract nocturnal pollinators? That carrots, sweet potatoes, and oranges get their color from beta carotene, an important antioxidant and vitamin source?
📝There will be a quiz, kids. (Just kidding.) 😮💨
The Garden is grateful to the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra for this collaboration.