Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
The Florida state flower, tickseed (Coreopsis leavenworthii), is flourishing in the landscape at the Audubon House. Quite adaptable, this wildflower is not part of the flora of the adjacent Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area. Tickseed produces plenty of seeds, it not…
Late spring and early summer is when the butterfly orchids (Encyclia tampensis) bloom. Susan Warmer (Class of 2006) sent this beautiful photograph of a butterfly orchid in her yard. Their coloration is quite variable: The petals and sepals are greenish…
The re-located giant leather fern (Acrostichum danaeifolium) and all of the Audubon House landscape plants have been waiting for Nature to water them again. The last big rain that filled the dry retention pond was April 28 ... The giant…
At Audubon House volunteers relocated giant leather ferns (Acrostichum daeniofolium) to the low areas of the dry retention pond and replaced them with comely coonties (Zamia floridana) graciously donated by Robin Pelensky of Surlaterre Landscape Architecture. Coonties already are planted…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 