3030 - 18th Street, Vero Beach We visited the yard of avid Master Gardener on 7/27/2017, a visit re-scheduled from the usual third Thursday of the month due to thunderstorms. If the weather allows, we'll visit again on Thursday,…
Category: pollinator plant
9-20-2018 Virtual Visit to the Yard of Martha & Roger Willoughby
Each time that we visit the yard of our Chapter Treasurer Martha Willoughby, we are inspired by her ever diminishing areas of turf grass, her beautiful beds of native wildflowers, her use of attractive native grasses, her shoreline plantings that…
9/20/2018: Visit the Yard of Martha & Roger Willoughby
We visited the yard of Martha & Roger Willoughby on 9-16-2014 (when the pictures above were taken) and will again visit on Thursday, 9/20/2018, at 5:30pm. Beds of wonderful native wildflowers -- bee balm (Monarda punctuata), red tropical sage (Salvia…
False Indigo
False indigo (Amorpha fruiticosa) has stunning dark purple flowers and was blooming, later than is usual, in the yard of Tom Brown which we visited in August 2018.
Simpson’s Stopper – Chapter Namesake
Simpson's stopper (Myrcianthes fragrans) is the Eugenia chapter namesake. Once upon a time when our Chapter began, its botanical name was Eugenia dicrana. Botanical names sometimes change. Nakedwood stopper also is a common name for this plant. Its bark, shown…
