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While there are many retirement communities in Florida, none is more beautiful than CRF Communities' Lake Ashton built in the shadow of Bok Tower. Central Florida with its pristine lakes and "Old Florida" cypress, moss and outdoor beauty is a premier choice if you're looking for a retirement community in Florida. If you're a nature enthusiast, interested in horticulture or just enjoy native wildlife, retirement communities in Florida have an abundance of beauty and nature for you to explore. As you consider choosing retirement communities in Florida, you might want to look at locations that offer you this natural beauty and unspoiled landscape.
Central Florida's Bok Tower, near CRF Communities' Lake Ashton, is such a place. You may stroll the gardens, picnic or participate in numerous events designed to draw visitors to the sanctuary. These events include various concerts featuring folk music, jazz, orchestras, and the carillon bells of the Tower. The most popular is the semi-annual Concert Under the Stars, given in the evening once in the Fall and once in the Spring. The event draws hundreds of visitors to the large field in front of the Tower for an outdoor picnic; and features music from both the symphony orchestra and carillon bells.
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Bok Tower Gardens, botanical gardens located on the grounds of the Historic Bok Sanctuary, is a National Historic Landmark. The gardens are open daily; an admission fee is charged. Historic Bok Sanctuary comprises the gardens, the Singing Tower (with carillon bells), Pinewood Estate, Pine Ridge Trail, and a Visitor Center.
If you love beautiful plants you'll enjoy Bok Tower Gardens with acres of ferns, palms, oaks, pines, and wetland plants. The garden's plantings also include bunya-bunya trees, camellias, tree ferns, creeping fig, yaupon and dahoon holly, Asiatic jasmine, justicia, crinum and spider lily, monstera, wax myrtle, date and sabal palm, papyrus, philodendron, blue plumbago, and horsetail rush (Juncaceae). It is a refuge for more than 100 bird species: the most prominently featured birds are the swans who tend to stay near the reflection pool. Although the gardens provide an assortment of native wildlife, birds, reptiles, and butterflies. You should bring "lots of nuts," the gardens are probably best known for the large population of squirrels!
Where could you find a more beautiful setting for retirement communities in Florida? Whether you're drawn to nature or love the music of the bells, Bok Tower is a gorgeous place located close to your back yard. When you visit Bok Tower you may also see the 20-room Mediterranean Revival mansion on Pinewood Estate or walk the ¾ mile Pine Ridge Trail with its ecosystem typified by an overstory of Longleaf Pine, dense groundcover of Perennial grasses, a bog garden, an open glade, and a sandhill forest community.
Located at the highest elevation, south of the reflection pool, the Singing Tower, with a 60 bell carillon set, provides a fantastic setting for you to enjoy the daily recital. Florida retirement communities; the best place to look for retirement communities in Florida.
