Hi homies anyone wanna help me find cool new exciting native plant species to hyperfixate over research in depth and try to add to my garden?
I'm really into pollinator gardening, especially milkweeds, and I'm going to a native plant sale Saturday but I don't wanna miss a chance to buy a cool plant while I'm there.
I mostly do pollinator gardening, I'm especially interested in host plants but just about anything that flowers would be Cool. I'm in North Florida, for 'species locality' reasons, and I'd be planting in full/part sun areas. Logically I know I could just google native flowers in my region but thats Kinda Overwhelming so I'm down for suggestions of cool plants to direct some attention to.
Woo! After living in Florida for 36 years, I finally got to go to Bok Tower Garden at the beginning of this month (with special thanks to my dad for going with me).
It was tough to get a photo of the front side that really showed off how pink the tower is because of the angle of the sun at the time but it’s made of pink and gray quartz and coquina stone. This is basically an Art Deco Floridian wizard tower, library, study, and all. There are 60 bells up there that chime on the hour and we were sitting right beside it at noon :D (More info here including some close ups of the sculptures)
Above is the entrance/visitor center with cafe and gift shop.
Florida is pretty flat but the tower and surrounding gardens are built on one of the highest points so the view is pretty incredible:
Bonus points to them for having rather large carnivorous plant gardens:
And a random peaceful stream video from the point where I missed my turn on the path and ended up in their wetlands garden:
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