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  • Advice on fall garden maintenance and seed collecting

    As you return to the garden after the last two months of unbearable heat, biting bugs and sweat, you’ll probably encounter a lot of overgrown stems. Cut those back to their base to freshen up the plant for winter.

  • Micanopy Native Plant Garden

    The Micanopy native plant garden utilizes Florida native wildflowers, grasses and shrubs that provide vital habitat for bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects, as well as seeds, berries and insects for birds.

  • Canadian toadflax

    Canadian toadflax (Linaria canadensis) is an annual wildflower that forms a delicate sea of lavender when in bloom. It is common along roadsides, and in pastures and other disturbed areas.

  • Giant swallowtail

    From its wingspan to its range across the Americas — and even its appetite for oranges — everything about the Giant swallowtail is just that: giant!

  • Frost flowers — beauty and the brrrrr

    Flowers of ice in Florida??? Yes, seeing is believing. I first saw icy flowers — often called frost flowers, ice flowers, ice ribbons, or the exotic-sounding crystallofolia — on a cold December morning in 2010.

  • Dubsdread Native Plant Garden

    The Dubsdread Golf Course native plant garden utilizes Florida native wildflowers, grasses and shrubs that provide vital habitat for bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects, as well as seeds, berries and insects for birds.

  • Meet board member Sara Burke

    Sara Burke brings to the Florida Wildflower Foundation board of directors an extensive background in communications. She is passionate about protecting Florida’s environment by creating a revolution in our own backyards!