
Passiflora incarnata
Maypops are aprilpops this far south.
Naples Botanical Garden Nymphaea
Naples Botanical Garden Nymphaea
Victoria amazonica
Water Garden at the Naples Botanical Garden
Water Garden at the Naples Botanical Garden
Twenty-one hybridizers from around the world submit (via post due to COVID) new varieties for the International Waterlily & Water Gardening Society’s 2020 competition. Read more and see photos of the beautiful flowers here.
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
Click here for more about the preserve.
Tillandsia ionantha
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.”