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     St. Marks Lighthouse as seen by photographer on a spring day when the winds were blowing the clouds around.  MEA

Essays that could change history

Tectonic Genesis:
New Essays in Natural History
pose solution to Darwin's
'abominable mystery'
Angiosperms flowered 360 million years ago,
writes Dr. Harry Levin, challenging current
paleobotanical thought in his essays on prehistory

Famous author suggests stronger protests over
mountain destruction by coal industry

Wendell Berry speaks out on environmental 'genocide'



Sowing the earth with seeds

The right seeds hold the potential to renew our relationship to nature and to preserve a  plant diversity fast disappearing. The Salter Tree and Herb Farm in Madison is where Joanna Booth nurtures thousands of native plants, some of them endangered, and harvests the proper seeds for your garden. She takes into account cold hardiness, the moistness of the soil, and many other variables that affect productivity. But there's a lot more to it than that.  To read more, click here.

Seeds hold key to preserving a heritage



• Private donor helps save Wolf Creek Property

• Sumatra restaurant wows 'em in middle of nowhere

• See rare, flowering trees at Richard Lyons' Nursery in Homestead

A surprise reunion

Artist, 'Pepper'
the poodle are
reunited in
Sopchoppy
after 25 years
  Pepper: alive forever on canvas


 
This job is for the birds

Using a ladder and a homemade noose, biologist Chuck Hess climbs high to gather endangered woodpecker chicks, weighing less than an ounce. This drama unfolds 40 feet in the air. We tell the story of the red - cockaded woodpecker in the Apalachicola National Forest and how Hess and others aim to save this endangered species.

Michael E. Abrams, Publisher




Passion flower shows secrets of Kabbalah 500 years after churchmen witnessed 'marvel'

News, Events, Maps, Numbers

See our Newspage for more activities.


•Plea: Your donation can help match grant to rescue unique 140 acres of trout lilies and orchids at Wolf Creek

•Canoeists, butterfliers, photographers
and hikers set meetings, trips for summer days
•Florida's largest surviving Torreya tree prospers near downtown Madison
•Folk artist O.L. Samuels' 'zoo' of the fantastic
•Grand Canyon, desert in winter; Charlie the Mule gets new shoes

•Map of Apalachicola Forest and Recreation Areas

•Census figures for Leon, Wakulla, Gadsden, Liberty, Franklin

•Gideon Titmarsh speaks out on land, water management, ricochet effect


Belle Glade Memories:
Photo Exhibit
ca. 1970


Our site features more than 200 original pictures of Florida wildflowers, insects, and items of interest. We follow the seasons and put new flowers up often, so please come back to see what is new. All pictures are copyrighted and permission must be obtained through the photographer. Email address is posted above on this page.

Florida expert
shines a light
on mushrooms

Bill Petty of Crawfordville, a master gardener and naturalist, answers your questions. You can reach him through his great mycology website  by clicking on his picture or the URL below.

http://polaris.net/%7Eannep/floridafungi/introduc.html

Amazing Site for
Florida Gardeners

A beautiful, top - ranked  site for Florida flowers with tips, tricks and a treasury of  pictures for gardeners is http://www.netpamj.com/ 


Invasive Pest
 


Coral ardisia – Ardisia crenata
– is a plague in North Florida.
It takes over the understory of
the forest. Pull it out by the roots
and dispose of it. Look for young
plants as well. The crenated leaf
and red berry is a marker of this
plant, unfortunately sold by
some nurseries.


• Nature park beauty
• Deer licking behavior
• Heron swallows a rat
All of the movies are accompanied by music including banjo by the late
Rick Abrams, national
champion clawhammer banjo player.








Local and other ponderings


•St. Marks Lighthouse in a different light

•Madonna 'Personal Blog' steals picture of flower, story from us; How Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and newspaper escape justice on the Internet






Unforgettable encounter
with manatee, 2 calves

"I reached out and stroked her forehead and rubbed her back. I held my hand to her mouth. It filled my palm. I could feel her whiskers against my skin as she explored my hand with her lips 

–  story by Tom Southern







 Miracle on
the mountain
A religious fable about a strange moth with mysterious markings. The moth was named by Linnaeus in the year 1758,  but he did not know the story behind the story of what is called the Hebrew Character Moth.


New to the story – a Moche civilization jug handle (below) from 400 to 500 C.E. and a passion flower from an Aztec codex of the year 1552 C.E.  © Museo Larco, Lima, Peru. Also a figure of the passion of Christ discovered on a root – from a 1696 catalog of science and the miraculous by Johann Zahn, a canon of the Church and an inventor. The book contains an interesting early passionflower illustration.



Figure above
© Museo Larco,
Lima, Peru

Figure at right
from Zahn's
Speculae - Physico - Mathematico - Historicae . . .
(1696) courtesy
of NOAA Library.


Calendar,
Gwen
Beatty's
Newsletter
Rocket scientist
Harry Levin's
world of
flowers.
Kabbalah
and passion
flower
tell secrets
Passion flower
in van Cleve
painting spells
tale of mystery
Free desktop
wallpaper
created from
wildflowers
Gallery of
photographs,
comments
Movies
of natural
Florida
Wildflower
index by
genus
and species

Rare 'Croomia' tells of hurricane,
courtroom battle 170 years ago
  


You can order anything from Amazon here from clothing to cameras, or consider the recommended books below if you want to learn more about the natural world and Florida's history. We also highly recommend the Nikon D40x camera.


ABOUT THE SITE, NOTICE
The Florida Wildflowers pages welcome visitors from all around the world. Our pages have been up since July, 1995, and change with the seasons. We have more than 200 pictures on various pages. Our gallery is best viewed at 1280 pixels width. Pictures are copyrighted and may not be used without permission. Commercial and educational use of photographs and artwork requires permission from Michael E. Abrams, mexabrams@earthlink.net (remove the x).