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3.5K views · 216 reactions | It's planting season! What better way to start off 2022 than with garden care that helps the environment? Our 'Bloom! California' team members David and Maya walk gardeners of all skill levels through how to plant and tend for your new native plants. Learn more and find the best native plants for your style and space at https://bloomcalifornia.org  | California Native Plant Society | Facebook

TERMINOLOGY TUESDAY 🌿 w/ the Florida Native Plant Society! Longleaf Pine (& Red Cockaded Woodpeckers) Pinus paulstris Family: Pinaceae The Longleaf Pine is (literally) home to the world's only woodpecker that excavates nesting cavities in trees that are still alive. The Red Cockaded Woodpecker (Picoides borealis) was almost obliterated in the southeastern US due to logging of longleaf pine and land use changes in the mid-1900s. A concerted effort to protect habitat and translocate nestlings to

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TERMINOLOGY TUESDAY 🌿 w/ the Florida Native Plant Society! Meet the Sand Pine! Sand Pine Pinus clausa Family: Pinaceae Sand Pine is a small to medium-sized species that can reach up to 60 feet tall and occurs across Florida. As the common name suggests, it grows in sandy xeric soils, scrub, coastal dunes, sand ridges, and sandhills. 🌿Characteristic Features BARK: The mature bark is dark grey to reddish brown, furrowed into irregular, narrow, and vertical scaly plates. NEEDLES: 2-4 inches long,