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Secret Garden: Boca Raton scrub area contains hints of land’s oceanfront past

Posted by The Coastal Star on April 27, 2021 at 15:42

8857015668?profile=RESIZE_710xWhite sand paths wind through shoulder-high oaks, towering pines and silver saw palmettos at the Blazing Star Preserve. Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

 

By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley

Tucked between I-95 and the Amtrak/Tri-Rail tracks sits the 24

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Secret Garden: Gumbo Limbo’s Ashley Trail offers intimate look at native plants

Posted by The Coastal Star on April 4, 2018 at 11:18

7960786065?profile=originalABOVE: An orange-barred sulphur butterfly drinks nectar from a firebush. BELOW: Strangler figs line the path of the Ashley Trail. Photos by Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star

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By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley

It’s easy to find the Ashley Trail from the parking l

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