The state of Florida not only abounds with native plants, animals, fungi, and others, but somewhat bizarrely due to it’s neotropical connections and particularly the Miami area’s connection to the international species trade (both legal and illegal), it acts as in incubator for species from all over the world. A lot of people have mixed feeling about invasives, and rightly so when many of them have a negative effect on native species, but am I wrong for finding the means by which these species find their way on a whole new continent fascinating?
What this has to do with the second look at Florida’s fine nature blogs, I’m not sure. Is it because we as nature bloggers are writers in the new medium of online micro-publishing? Or is it because I came up with what I think is a pretty good pun and I wanted to use it? Who knows?
Florida's state tree, the Sabal Palm, from wikipedia
In any case, there are so many good blogs form the Sunshine State that I had to split them up into two weeks. This first group, as per the title, will primarily contain blogs with some sort of plant theme, but it’s hardly hard and fast. Next week we’ll look at the balance. Enjoy!
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- First up? A blog dedicated to Florida’s Native Orchids, those tropical and near-tropical flowers that reach their highest diversity in the United States o the Florida peninsula.
- What goes with flowers? Butterflies of course! Tales from the Butterfly Garden reports from the aforementioned garden at the Museum of Science and Industry in Tamps.
- It may not always be flowers, but Buford at Florida Nature Adventures sees a lot of great plants and writes a ton about them.
- If you want even more in depth tree information, check out nerdy naturalist who’s in the midst of a long term research project on Long-leaf Pines.
- This is where we start to go off the rails. What does My Florida and other Outdoor Stuff have to do with flowers? Not a whole lot, but I don’t think Tom would look askance at a nice one.
- Suwanee Refugee is as true a Floridian as you’d ever want. He claims to have done anything you can think of with an orange. Is that the mark of a true Floridian?
- Florida is truly an Oceanic Wilderness, with myriad opportunities for photography and nature watching!
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More to come next week. But in the meantime, if you’d like to make sure you’re included, drop me a line at naswick (AT) gmail (DOT) com.
Till then!
