Crinum americanum
Billy Creek Preserve and Filter Marsh
Blocks from strip malls on four lanes of fifty mile an hour traffic straddling a median crossed at dawn and dusk by Guatemalan day laborers rests fifty-six acres of marsh designed and engineered to clean and filter water destined for the Caloosahatchee. It’s a rad place to ride your bike.
Billy Creek Preserve and Filter Marsh
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Tillandsia ionantha
Bauhinia purpurea
These flowers are edible!
Bauhinia purpurea
Sansevieria trifasciata
Sansevieria trifasciata
Mimosa strigillosa
Wisteria sinensis
Wisteria sinensis
Taraxacum officinale
Kalanchoe daigremontiana
Portulaca oleracea
Succulents and dandelions reclaim sandy soil from a tired, cracking tennis court. In the words of author Richard Powers, “There’s always as much belowground as above.”
Pueraria lobata
Pueraria lobata
Delonix regia
Antigua locals call this tree “chuk chuk” due to the sound the seed pod makes when used as a rhythmic musical instrument.
Cephalanthus occidentalis
Click here for buttonbush photos taken over 1,700 miles away from the one featured above.
Ipomea pes-caprae
Summer Storm Over Ormond Beach
Albizia julibrissin
Symphyotrichum pilosum
Paphiopedilum lowii
Hikers flock to Raven Cliff Falls Trail for the rush of falling water, but a trip in early April offers subtler beauty along the way.
Since ninety-nine percent of trout lily plants are non-flowering, the illusive perennials pictured above are one-percenters thriving in the mountains of White County.
A flurry of cottonwood seeds occupy an entrance to the North Oconee River Greenway.
A year ago this month I discovered a white, spherical flower growing beside a narrow creek. Seven months later I bought a used kayak, and now I meet buttonbush all the time along lakes and rivers.
