Tag: Exotic Invasive Plants

Bamboo: The Lazy Summer Day’s Fishing Pole

Temperatures are on the rise and school will be out in a few weeks. While the official start of summer 2021 is still weeks away, that summer feeling is growing in every corner of panhandle Florida. For both the young and the young at heart, one of the traditional pastimes is to spend idle hours…Read more

Invasion of the Vines: Kudzu and Old World Climbing Fern

Tarzan used them as a superhighway through the trees in every adventure created by Edgar Rice Burroughs.  Villains and scoundrels alike fell prey to the ape-man and his horde of avenging simians righteously descending on vines from the trees. Great fiction, but removed from the reality of present day north Florida.  This is especially true…Read more

Camphor: The Scent of Relief

The cold and flu season will arrive soon in Florida with symptoms ranging from the inconvenient to extreme discomfort.  Tissue boxes will become a common site. One universal symptom is respiratory distress.  It is bad enough to feel achy and endure an elevated temperature, but the stuffed head and chest create chronic misery for the…Read more