Picture vast glorious fields of yellow sunflowers stretching on and on. Kansas? The Dakotas? No, Florida. The blossoms of the southeastern sunflower, which grows only in Florida and Georgia, is a sure sign of fall in Florida, and in some places, field after field blazes with yellow each f...
A few weeks earlier, I followed Tommie and Quenton Cypress, who worked for the tribe’s Heritage and Environment Resources Office, into the woods near the Big Cypress Reservation. Bundles of palmetto fell off into tea-colored water. The delicate flowers of yellow top brushed against cones of ...
It doesn’t get more tropical than a sweet, aromatic guava. As fruits go, this one is wonderfully flavorful, and the trees aren’t bad-looking, either. Guava trees are large, with domed canopies that make them good shade trees. They produce fragrant flowers in spring and are self-pollinat...
Tiny yellow beige flowers in Spring. Not showy but attractive to bees. Oval reddish brown small fruit in clusters. Not edible for humans but birds eat them. Fast growing. Adapts very well to the South Florida environment. Grows in layered tiers creating a horizontal canopy. Uses: ...
The yellow false jasmine in the Gelseminum sempervirens (see Gelsemium). Several other plants are called jasmine in the West Indies, as species of Calotropis and Faramea. [Written also jessamine.] Cape jasmine, or Cape jessamine, the Gardenia florida, a shrub with fragrant white flowers, a ...
Pomelo trees are native to South East Asia, but we are fortunate to grow them here in Florida. The pummelo tree looks like a thick canopy with its compact leaves. Here in Florida, during the winter, the evergreen foliage is very showy, and in the spring, the white aromatic flowers are...
Chewan visits us regularly now, always asking about goats and “the trees”. And so, although we had only seen the medicinal side of moringa ourselves, we learned that in many third world countries, moringa is also a basic vegetable, cooked and eaten as an everyday part of life. ...
Woodpeckers include Downy and Pileated, plus Northern Flickers and Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers. Be on the lookout for Cooper's Hawks as they dart through the trees in search of avian meals. Lucky birders may detect Eastern Screech-Owls and Northern Bobwhites. An eye-catching, butterfly/dragonfly ...
Most plants on ""bird attracting"" lists have favorable fruits or flowers that serve as food, but the trunks, limbs and foliage cover that trees and shrubs provide should not be overlooked as they add shelter for raising young and protection from foul weather. Conditions : Fall Color Fall ...