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Going Native In WPB! Discover The Power Of Local Plants And Trees! · Inside West Palm Beach

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  Welcome to Inside West Palm Beach. I'm
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  Gerry Marcelo. If you could travel back
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  through time to our city's earliest days,
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  you would see a landscape much different
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  than what we see today. You would see
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  native trees and colorful scrub that
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  never appear in a modern lawn. Today,
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  we'll look at how
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  going native has a lot of
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  advantages in both beauty
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  and in cost. That's next.
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  [MUSIC]
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  Joining me today is Lauren Butcher, one
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  of two environmental education
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  coordinators at Grassy Waters Preserve.
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  There we go. Welcome to the show.
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  Thank you so much, Jerry.
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  It's a pleasure to be here.
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  Tremendous to have you here. Before we
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  get into talking about native plants,
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  their importance, why they disappeared,
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  and why we need to bring them back, let's
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  talk a little bit about you. How did you
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  find your way to a place like Grassy
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  Waters Preserve?
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  Wow. Well, I consider myself really
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  fortunate to be able to look out on that
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  beautiful Everglades wetland every day
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  when I go to work. I have been an
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  environmental educator for about almost
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  20 years. I was in a graduate course on
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  environmental education, had the
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  opportunity to visit Grassy Waters for
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  the first time. I was so taken. We went
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  on a swamp tramp with which many of our
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  visitors have the opportunity to do. If
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  you haven't been out on a swamp tramp, I
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  hope you will join us. But it is magical.
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  This is a trail, an established trail,
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  but it is submerged through the Cypress
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  Swamp. To be surrounded by the Cypress
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  and the air plants and the
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  ferns, it's just gorgeous.
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  Are you from the area?
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  I am from the west coast of Florida.
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  West coast of Florida.
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  Yep. That's where I grew up. I've lived
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  here for over 10 years and definitely
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  consider South Florida my native habitat.
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  Sure. One of the things that I've
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  discovered talking to people about Grassy
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  Waters is they are astounded that it's
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  there. They're used
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  to the sandy palms and
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  the coconut palms and all the things you
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  find on the seaboard and the tall
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  buildings and all that. Then just a few
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  miles, you basically go back in time.
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  It's like a time machine.
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  It really is. When we take people out on
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  the preserve in
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  Canoes, we say, "These are
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  your time machines. You are going back
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  into a pristine remnant of northern
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  Everglades habitat. It's 23 square miles,
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  primarily wetland habitat, Cypress Swamp,
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  open freshwater marsh,
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  and it is really magical.
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  It's absolutely pristine, especially
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  compared to the areas
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  surrounding it that have been
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  turned into ash.
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  Well, and development. There are a lot of
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  communities right around the preserve,
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  but really the preserve has really been
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  as you will find it for,
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  gosh, it goes back over 100 years when
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  Henry Flagler's water
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  company realized that
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  that was a place that needed to be
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  preserved as a water
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  supply for the growing city of
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  West Palm Beach, and it still serves as
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  our primary water supply.
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  Well, let's talk a little bit, speaking
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  of 100 years. If you were
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  to go back in time to 1926,
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  as opposed to 2026, I would suspect that
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  our landscape, both
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  around homes and also in the
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  south, would be vastly
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  different than we see today.
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  Yeah, it would. I mean, the way that our
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  neighborhoods, our cities, our
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  landscape in many cases represent plants
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  that are not originally
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  found here in South Florida,
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  so a different plant community that would
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  have been found at the time, for sure.
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  Now, do I remember the story correctly
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  that one of the most iconic
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  plants and trees that we have
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  in Palm Beach County, the coconut palm,
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  is not indigenous to South Florida?
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  That is correct. That is correct.
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  It wasn't supposed to be here.
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  Yeah.
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  We got named after it pretty much. So
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  basically, the very quick
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  thumbnail was that there was a
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  shipwreck that ended up depositing many,
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  many coconuts right on the beach.
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  Yes, indeed.
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  And they started springing up and they
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  were introduced into our landscape.
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  Yeah, that is correct. That's the story,
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  I believe, the ship, the Providentia.
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  But we do have some native palms. One of
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  my favorites is the
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  cabbage palm or the sable
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  palm. It's probably a palm that most of
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  your listeners and
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  viewers are familiar with.
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  But it is our state tree and provides
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  great shade, great habitat
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  for wildlife, great food for
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  wildlife. And it's a beautiful tree and
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  an iconic tree for this
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  area and the southeast.
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  Yeah, I don't assume, too, that it's
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  extremely hardy. I bet it...
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  Absolutely. Absolutely. And I know we'll
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  get into this, but
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  that's one of the advantages
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  of native plants is that because they are
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  adapted to this
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  environment, to this climate,
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  they are very hardy and they are adapted
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  to our seasonal
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  fluctuation between wet and dry
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  to our subtropical
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  temperatures. So indeed, very hardy.
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  They're really gorgeous trees.
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  Yeah.
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  They're really pretty.
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  Yeah.
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  All right. Well, so let's dive a little
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  bit into the kind of plants and trees and
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  wildflowers and things that we would
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  normally see in a native
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  environment here in South Florida.
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  What would you expect to see?
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  You know, that's a really good question.
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  And I think one of the
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  things that we need to keep in
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  mind when we talk about, let's say,
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  Florida native plants,
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  right? Florida is a big state.
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  Yes.
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  Right? So something that is native in
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  Tallahassee or the Panhandle is not
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  necessarily native or
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  found in our county or further south. So
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  it's really, I think, a regional approach
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  and thinking about what grows and also a
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  habitat approach because, of course,
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  there are even in the
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  Everglades, there are diverse habitats.
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  There are, of course,
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  wetlands like swamps and marshes,
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  but also hammocks and pine flatwoods. And
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  each of those would have a
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  different plant community
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  from the herbaceous level all the way to
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  the trees that might be
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  found there. And they really
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  are indicative of that habitat. So
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  there's not an easy
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  answer to what we would find,
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  you know, overall, but communities
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  throughout this area of
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  plants that would have been native
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  to this place.
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  Sure. So the idea is we can't speak in
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  such a broad brush to say the entire
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  state or the southeast.
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  Exactly.
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  Because, you know, it's
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  going to be cold in Jacksonville.
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  Yeah.
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  It will be much nicer here.
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  So we need to be focused on what sort of
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  plants we would find right
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  here in this area. To that end,
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  we talked a little bit about the palm
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  tree. What other
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  things could we see here?
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  Well, if we were talking about sort of a
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  coastal habitat, you might
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  have a very close to the shore
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  scrub habitat, some small species of
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  scrubby oak trees, saw
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  palmettoes, that sort of close to
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  the ground wind, buffered vegetation,
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  some pines that again are
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  adapted to those coastal zones
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  and hammock habitats, perhaps more trees
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  with berries and fruits, things like
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  wild coffee, which is not something that
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  we can use for coffee.
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  So don't get excited.
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  I just hear burke up.
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  I just hear burke up.
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  But things like mercene and marlberry
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  trees or shrubs that are
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  fruiting and provide great
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  food for native wildlife as well.
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  Well, I was fortunate enough to be a
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  young boy up in northern Palm Beach
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  County a long time ago.
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  And during that period of time, we were
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  able to wander around
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  through open lots and open areas.
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  And what I remember being very clear,
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  because I was originally from New Jersey,
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  coming here, you would have all these
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  wonderful little plants and
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  small trees and large trees,
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  but there was seem to be a lack of grass.
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  It was more like you'd be
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  walking along to be large
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  trees of sand and then a palmetto scrop
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  or some other kind of
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  planting. So is that something
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  that we should expect in a native
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  landscape? We see a lot of
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  exposed sand in the area?
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  Not necessarily. Again, it depends on the
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  habitat. So we were talking
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  about that hammock habitat,
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  which is a little bit higher in
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  elevation. And so much about what
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  determines a different
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  plant community in South Fortis is just a
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  few inches of difference
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  in elevation. And that makes
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  all the difference in the types of
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  plants, the soil that accumulates and
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  develops under them.
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  So in that hammock habitat, you would
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  also have some of those
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  cabbage palms, for instance,
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  potentially some other oak species,
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  laurel oak, live oak. So in a pine
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  flatwood, you would have
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  tall slash pines, but a lower level of
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  grasses and wildflowers
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  potentially. So again, it really
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  depends. It depends. So if you have
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  someone who comes to you and
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  says, "Look, give me a hand. I
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  want to return my lawn to Howard Woods
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  and plant things that were appropriate
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  for my exact location."
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  You know what? There is a great tool to
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  do that. There is an
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  organization in Del Ray called the
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  IRC Institute for Regional Conservation,
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  and they have a tool on
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  their website. I think it's
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  natives for your neighborhood, but you
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  can key in your exact zip code. And it
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  will give you a list
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  of plants that would have been found in
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  that location that are
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  found in native areas in that
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  location. You know, I was just noodling
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  around earlier and I just
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  keyed in the zip code for where
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  I'm in today. And there are probably 250,
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  300 species of plants. And
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  we're talking about trees,
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  shrubs, grasses, flowers, vines, I mean,
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  all sorts of things.
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  And many of these things,
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  you would really need to go to
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  specifically a native plant nursery in
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  order to find some of them.
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  But there are a number of others that are
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  more widely cultivated
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  and may be very familiar.
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  Some others that occur to me are things
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  like coco plum or, gosh,
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  wax myrtle. These are plants
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  that you might find even in landscaping
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  in some of our urban areas.
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  Yeah. So, first of all, that website
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  sounds fantastic. We'll
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  have to provide a link to that,
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  even though it's not in the city. We're
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  happy to share information with folks.
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  And it sounds wonderful. So, if I were to
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  say, okay, here's a list
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  of things that are natural,
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  and it's supposed to be in my backyard.
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  Are these things
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  relatively available at a nursery,
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  or are they harder to find? Well, again,
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  there are some of them you
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  can find in wide cultivation
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  and others you would want to go to a
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  nursery that's specifically
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  dedicated to native plants.
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  There's another resource that we might
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  share with your listeners. It's the
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  Florida Association of
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  Native Nurseries, FAN, F-A-N-N. And if
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  you go to their website,
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  they have a directory of local
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  native plant nurseries near you. So, you
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  can go directly to them. I
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  will also make just a plug
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  for Grassy Waters Preserve because we do
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  maintain a really nice
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  little collection of native plants
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  for sale at the Nature Center. So, you
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  can come in and they are
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  rotating all the time. So, you can
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  come and see what we have. And we may
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  maintain a few demonstration areas,
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  gardens in and around
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  the entrance area to Grassy Waters. So,
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  you can see some of them
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  and how they grow together.
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  Great reason to go out to the preserve.
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  Yeah. So, okay. So, this
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  is all very interesting. So,
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  if I indeed want to say, I want to...
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  Now, before I jump forward,
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  there's a term that has been
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  bouncing around forever, "zeroscaping."
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  Is this zeroscaping or no?
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  Not quite. And there's another
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  term that you might hear, "Florida
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  friendly gardening,"
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  right? And that's a little bit
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  different than planting with Florida
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  natives as well.
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  Zeroscaping is great. And I will say,
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  I'm not an expert on design, zeroscaping,
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  that sort of thing. But essentially,
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  zeroscaping is about using less water,
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  which is a wonderful
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  benefit. Certainly something that we
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  promote and water conservation at Grassy
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  Waters Preserve. But it's
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  not necessarily with native
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  plants. Same with Florida friendly. These
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  are plants that are very
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  hardy in our South Florida
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  climate, but they're not necessarily
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  native plants. And so, when we're talking
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  about native plants,
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  maybe we should circle back to some of
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  the real benefits that these plants have.
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  Again, these are plants, or if we're
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  talking about animal species, they are
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  original to this area,
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  have lived and evolved here for thousands
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  of years. And one of the
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  benefits to that is that
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  not only are they well adapted to this
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  place, but they have this
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  web of interrelationships
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  and connections with the other species of
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  plants and animals in this
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  area, also those other native
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  plants and animals. So that means that
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  they have tremendous benefits for that
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  natural community of
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  plants and animals. They are also,
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  because they are adapted to
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  this area or any area in which a
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  native plant occurs, it is in our area,
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  very well adapted to some
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  of those advantages of being
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  able to use less water. Right. Right.
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  They also, because they have natural
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  defenses to some of the
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  pests in the area, they require less
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  pesticide use potentially,
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  less because they thrive here,
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  less fertilizer use. So really what we're
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  talking about are plants that are a
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  triple win. They are
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  a benefit to wildlife in our area. They
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  are a benefit to water
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  conservation and they're a benefit
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  to our wallet because we don't have to
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  pay as much to maintain them with water,
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  pesticide, fertilizer.
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  So there are a lot of advantages to these
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  and those other approaches to planting,
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  they may capture some of those benefits,
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  but not all three. I was
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  about to say that because
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  what you're describing here is that
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  planting native plants that belong here
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  captures some of the qualities that
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  you're after, some of the
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  objectives of zero escaping,
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  but you have the added extra advantage
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  that these plants work in tandem with
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  each other. They're part
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  of the same system and they become
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  stronger because of it and they have more
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  benefit because of it.
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  Yeah, and more benefit to native wildlife
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  as well. Really those
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  interdependent relationships
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  are not something that we can... They
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  can't be created.
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  They exist and we have to
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  really enable the conditions that allow
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  those plants and animals to
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  continue that relationship.
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  Gotcha. So would the approach be, I guess
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  this would be up to the homeowner,
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  do you decorate your landscape with
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  native plants or do you create a garden
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  area with them? What would
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  be the best way to go for it? You could
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  take a number of approaches.
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  You could really look at it
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  as an entire yard or portion of your yard
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  or even focus on a
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  small container garden.
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  We're talking about using plants that are
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  going to be excellent
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  sources of food for native birds,
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  native butterflies, other pollinators and
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  wildlife. So you can
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  imagine just a small area
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  of native wildflowers would be able to be
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  a source of food, of
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  potentially host plants for
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  native butterflies. I'm not sure if I
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  know that probably many of
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  your members of your audience
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  are familiar with that term of being a
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  host plant. But what that
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  means is that for butterflies,
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  they need a specific plant or group type
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  of plant, group of plants
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  that's the only one where they can
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  lay their eggs and where their
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  caterpillars can eat and
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  thrive. And so without that plant,
• 14:23:16
  although the butterfly might find sources
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  of food, it's not
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  going to be able to find
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  that place where it can complete its life
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  cycle and continue to thrive as a
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  species. So it's really
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  important to have not only those sources
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  of food for our native
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  pollinators, but also those host
• 14:23:33
  plants where they can lay their eggs,
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  where their caterpillars can
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  get enough food to thrive so
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  they can go into chrysalis, come out with
• 14:23:40
  those beautiful
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  butterflies and continue to cycle.
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  This goes back to what you said before.
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  Everything's interconnected.
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  Absolutely.
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  You know, and by promoting native plants,
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  you promote native wildlife.
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  Absolutely.
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  The profits are
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  amazing. It's really great.
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  Yeah. And I mean, you think about all of
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  the enjoyment I know I
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  get, and I know so many people
• 14:24:02
  get just watching wildlife, watching
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  birds, watching
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  butterflies and other pollinators.
• 14:24:08
  It's, you know, it's certainly, it is a
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  way of giving back to
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  nature, but it's also a way to
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  benefit ourselves.
• 14:24:18
  All of this is really important to really
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  keep people aware of our
• 14:24:23
  heritage, of our past and the
• 14:24:25
  importance of taking care of our
• 14:24:28
  resources that are natural to the state.
• 14:24:30
  And, you know, so there's
• 14:24:31
  an ongoing need to keep informing people.
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  And to that end, from what I
• 14:24:35
  understand, October is what,
• 14:24:38
  Florida native plant month?
• 14:24:39
  It is Florida native plant month. That's
• 14:24:41
  right. So nationally, there is an
• 14:24:44
  observance of native
• 14:24:45
  plant month in April, but in Florida,
• 14:24:49
  October happens to be a
• 14:24:51
  really great time to celebrate
• 14:24:53
  native plants. This is a time when many
• 14:24:56
  of our native wildflowers
• 14:24:57
  and grasses are in bloom.
• 14:24:59
  We have just a little bit of an respite
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  from the heat of the summer,
• 14:25:04
  right? The temperatures are
• 14:25:05
  cooling, so it's a great time to get out
• 14:25:07
  and experience natural
• 14:25:08
  areas and native plants. And
• 14:25:09
  it's also a good time to plant them
• 14:25:11
  because this time fall into winter is a
• 14:25:17
  good window for them
• 14:25:18
  to get their root systems established
• 14:25:21
  before we're back into the warmer
• 14:25:23
  temperatures and more rain
• 14:25:25
  of the summer months. So yeah.
• 14:25:28
  A perfect window to get people involved
• 14:25:30
  and to get smart about native plants.
• 14:25:32
  Absolutely. And, you know, Jerry, it
• 14:25:35
  occurs to me, we've been talking about
• 14:25:37
  native plants as an important part of our
• 14:25:43
  natural heritage in South Florida,
• 14:25:46
  but they're also a really important part
• 14:25:48
  of our future in South
• 14:25:49
  Florida, right? And certainly to
• 14:25:52
  preserving, protecting, and expanding
• 14:25:57
  those oases of nature
• 14:26:01
  that those native plants and
• 14:26:02
  animals depend on for their continued
• 14:26:05
  survival in our area. So it's certainly,
• 14:26:09
  it is a way to honor
• 14:26:11
  our past, but also a lifeline to the
• 14:26:14
  future for those species.
• 14:26:18
  I'm looking at my lawn. I really want to
• 14:26:20
  do a redo. Do I come to
• 14:26:23
  grassy? Do I find someone I can
• 14:26:25
  talk to? How do I get started? Oh, well,
• 14:26:27
  there are so many great
• 14:26:28
  resources in our community and in
• 14:26:30
  our state. But I would say if you are
• 14:26:34
  just getting started,
• 14:26:37
  start small, right? Okay.
• 14:26:39
  And learn as you go. Even if you
• 14:26:43
  identify, as I said, let's
• 14:26:46
  say you live in an apartment,
• 14:26:47
  but you have a balcony. You can do some
• 14:26:50
  container gardening with native plants,
• 14:26:52
  even right on your balcony. If you have
• 14:26:54
  more space to work with,
• 14:26:55
  you might choose a smaller
• 14:26:57
  section of that area and get started
• 14:26:59
  there and then build as you
• 14:27:02
  go. And so there are, again,
• 14:27:06
  great resources. I mentioned the Florida
• 14:27:10
  Association of Native
• 14:27:11
  Nurseries to find some
• 14:27:12
  locations where you could potentially
• 14:27:15
  purchase native plants.
• 14:27:16
  Certainly a visit to grassy waters.
• 14:27:18
  We would love to talk to you about native
• 14:27:20
  plants and show you the
• 14:27:21
  plants that we have there.
• 14:27:24
  But in addition, certainly the Florida
• 14:27:27
  Native Plant Society is
• 14:27:30
  statewide and they have local
• 14:27:31
  chapters. We have a Palm Beach County
• 14:27:33
  chapter. So that's a great
• 14:27:35
  resource. The Florida Wildflower
• 14:27:37
  Foundation is a great source of
• 14:27:39
  information. I mentioned that native is
• 14:27:43
  for your neighborhood
• 14:27:44
  initiative that might give you
• 14:27:46
  information about what specific plants
• 14:27:48
  you might want to consider
• 14:27:49
  for your specific location. Gosh, a lot
• 14:27:55
  of resources. There's a lot of resources,
• 14:27:57
  a lot of things going for you to become
• 14:28:00
  smart and become... But
• 14:28:02
  you know what? I really like
• 14:28:03
  the idea of starting small, experimenting
• 14:28:06
  with a controlled small box, as it were,
• 14:28:09
  if you're on a balcony. Because that way
• 14:28:11
  you'll find out if it's right for you,
• 14:28:13
  if it's something that you want to do.
• 14:28:14
  And chances are it will be and it will
• 14:28:16
  spark further interest.
• 14:28:17
  I'd assume it'd be a really great way to
• 14:28:19
  enfranchise young
• 14:28:20
  people into learning about
• 14:28:22
  native plants as well. Absolutely. In
• 14:28:25
  fact, one of the ways that
• 14:28:27
  I first became interested in
• 14:28:29
  native plants is through working with
• 14:28:31
  some of the schools as
• 14:28:32
  they were trying to create
• 14:28:33
  outdoor classrooms, living classrooms,
• 14:28:35
  and use native plants for nature
• 14:28:39
  observation and learning
• 14:28:40
  about life cycles and learning about
• 14:28:43
  plant parts and how plants work and
• 14:28:46
  photosynthesis, all of
• 14:28:48
  these things right on their school
• 14:28:49
  grounds. So yeah, there are many
• 14:28:52
  wonderful opportunities to
• 14:28:54
  support students, support kids in your
• 14:28:57
  life, and help them connect
• 14:29:00
  with nature, connect with plants
• 14:29:03
  and wildlife through native planting.
• 14:29:05
  Fascinating. What an important part of
• 14:29:08
  our heritage and part of
• 14:29:10
  our landscape that we need to preserve
• 14:29:13
  and to learn about and
• 14:29:14
  to propagate. I mean,
• 14:29:17
  you know, again, we hear many important
• 14:29:20
  voices say how we need to
• 14:29:21
  protect what we have left of our
• 14:29:23
  Everglades and of our wild areas. In a
• 14:29:27
  separate stream, we
• 14:29:29
  should be encouraging people to
• 14:29:32
  employ native plants that have always
• 14:29:37
  been here. They're
• 14:29:38
  strong, they're capable, and
• 14:29:40
  start sort of reassembling that part of
• 14:29:42
  our landscape that's been
• 14:29:44
  lost over the decades to
• 14:29:46
  just crabgrass and palm trees.
• 14:29:48
  Absolutely. I mean, this is part, as you
• 14:29:51
  say, this is part of our
• 14:29:52
  natural heritage. It's something that
• 14:29:56
  benefits us and benefits our natural
• 14:30:00
  community in so many ways.
• 14:30:02
  And so yeah, it's an opportunity that we
• 14:30:05
  have to just in small ways
• 14:30:07
  or large ways to give back to
• 14:30:09
  our natural world. Tremendous resources.
• 14:30:11
  I should all start with a
• 14:30:13
  visit out to Grassy Waters
• 14:30:14
  Preserve, a fantastic, amazing spot right
• 14:30:17
  here in the city of West
• 14:30:18
  Palm Beach. A lot of folks just
• 14:30:20
  like yourself, very learned and very
• 14:30:22
  willing to share the information and
• 14:30:24
  knowledge you have. And
• 14:30:25
  to that, I want to thank you for coming
• 14:30:26
  on the show and being a
• 14:30:27
  part of today's broadcast. Oh,
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  thank you so much, Jerry. My pleasure.
• 14:30:30
  And we look forward to seeing you and
• 14:30:33
  your audience out of
• 14:30:34
  Grassy. Thank you so much. And thank you
• 14:30:37
  for joining us for Inside
• 14:30:38
  West Palm Beach. This podcast
• 14:30:40
  is a production of the City of West Palm
• 14:30:42
  Beach Communications
• 14:30:43
  Department. I'm Jerry Marcello.
• 14:30:46
  We'll see you next time.