First-Ever Planting Day at Audubon House: 5-23-2015

Dan Farley, Judith Fillipich, Steve Goff, Judy Gersony, Darlene Halliday, Donna Halleran, Gayle Lafferty, Trich Kruza, Mike McCallion, Doreen McLoed, Karen & Neil Naples, Susan Russell, and Glenn Schussler tended the recently installed landscape at Audubon House, re-locating plants and…

Lovely Licania

The North Sebastian Conservation Area (NSCA) once was a platted subdivision replete with asphalt roads that now serve as nature trails. Mother Nature has been "reclaiming" the land from the crumbling asphalt -- with the help of gopher apple (Licania…

Wildflower Workshop & Planting

The Eugenia Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society and the Pelican Island Audubon Society (PIAS) sponsored a hands-on wildflower workshop at the Audubon House on 3/14/15. Thanks to PIAS Office Manager Bob Montanaro for all of these photos ...…

Eugenia Chapter Namesake

Carol Thomas from the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory sent photos of her simpsons' stopper (Myrcianthes fragrans var. simpsoni) ... This plant flowers gloriously in full sun, has bright red-orange fruits, and attracts attention. Carol advertises her use of comely native…