Naples Botanical Garden and Florida Gulf Coast University study the workings of beach dunes and develop a restoration formula. The plant is a botanical jackpot. Vice President of Conservation Chad […]
Your Thanksgiving Meal — Botanically Classified
Bowl of fruit and vegetables. Photo credit: Leimenide It’s Thanksgiving Week! With food on the brain, we thought it might be fun to break out a little botanical trivia pertaining […]
Behold the Painted Bunting — and Other Migratory Species Filling Our Seasonal Skies
It is the prize of the day: a Painted Bunting spotted in the foliage and caught on camera. There are two of them, actually. The female — sorry, ladies — […]
Straight Out of a Storybook: The Wild, Whimsical World of Succulents and Cacti
We have gardens reminiscent of Southeast Asia, Brazil, the Caribbean … and Dr. Seussland? The Foster Succulent Garden — always a place for the botanical world’s weird and wonderful — […]
These Trees Offer Fall Color and a Hint of Halloween Macabre
Northern trees get all the fall glory — the maples, oaks, and birches that turn landscapes into tapestries. It is time, I think, that Ceibas get their due. These trees […]
Students Discover the Secrets of the Swamp
“It’s cold!” The first of six middle school students eases into a slough at Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park. He has set the expectation for the rest, and they wince […]
