POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — “People find a lot of peace and tranquility just to be able to look out over the countryside,” said David Price, president of Bok Tower Gardens. Bok Tower Gardens is a ...

Bok Tower Gardens will hold its 99th annual Easter Sunrise Service at 7 a.m. on April 20. The service will feature a message from The Rev. Mackay Smith of the First Presbyterian Church of Lake Wales.

Visitors to Bok Tower Gardens may wonder, as they gaze at a gargantuan lily pad in the reflection pond, “How much weight could that thing hold?” Now we have an answer: 183 pounds. That is the ...

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Bok, who was the publisher of Ladies Home Journal for decades, wrote a short book about the tower, which he titled “America’s Taj Mahal.” He died shortly after the structure opened and is buried in ...

The bells of Bok Tower have been filling Polk County’s air with their gloriously distinctive melodies since 1929, but their provenance dates to the 1600s when carillons first appeared in the ...

David Price waited nearly three decades for an agave plant at Bok Tower Gardens to reach its climax of growth. A hailstorm prematurely felled the plant’s 35-foot bloom stalk, offering a reminder that ...

Two of the proposed corridors, Bok Tower Gardens president says, are close enough to have noise and light impacts on national historic landmark. Russian President Putin declares a unilateral Easter ...