
| 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. |
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• 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 |
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This job is for the birds Michael E. Abrams, Publisher |

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Local and other ponderings
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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.
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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).
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