Palm Beach Social Diary

DeWoody hosts Mounts benefit + Mizner fountain may become a "recreation"

By Augustus Mayhew

Following Sunday afternoon's spring benefit for the Mounts Botanical Garden, the event's host, art collector, curator, patron and real estate executive Beth Rudin DeWoody may want to add Master Gardener to her portfolio as several hundred green thumbs converged at her artfully designed waterfront estate to support the area's oldest and largest public garden.

"Our most successful event," said Polly Reed, president of the Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden. "Many thanks to Beth DeWoody and her staff, our volunteers, and our patrons whose generous donations will go to the development of new wetlands at the Mounts," Reed added.

The Mounts Botanical Garden is located at 531 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach. Open Monday-Saturday,8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sunday, Noon-4 p.m..

For more information, call (561) 233-1757 or visit www.mounts.org. Town plans to "recreate" original Mizner fountain Memorial Fountain & Park, 1929.

Photographs by Augustus Mayhew.