Kanapaha Botanical Gardens in Gainesville, Florida is a 68 acre non profit facility comprised of 24 major collections visually accessible from a 1 ½ mile paved walkway. These include the state's largest public display of bamboos and the largest herb garden in the Southeast. Giant Victoria water lilies can only be seen in late summer as they are a tropical species and usually disappear in October.

Gainesville is the county seat of, and the largest city in, Alachua County, Florida. In 2018 the US Census Bureau estimated Gainesville's population at 133,997.