florida native plants (2)

7960716076?profile=originalJoewood is a slow-growing shrub with inedible green fruit.

BELOW: Jacquemontia is a native vine with stunning blue blooms.

Both plants are salt-tolerant, making them ideal for our neighborhoods.

Photos by Jerry Lower and Susan Lerner

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A  statue of Pan  playing his flute greets visitors

at the main entrance to the gardens.

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Swamp lillies in bloom in the county’s only cypress stand east of the Intracoastal Waterway.

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The leaves of a saw palmetto generate from the bud of the plant.

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