Artist explores realm of nature
“A Connection to the Past Ceaselessly Pulling Away” by Justin Rabideau. Atlanta-based sculptor and printmaker Justin Rabideau finds inspiration from objects and environments that create a notion of beauty, awe…
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Discover Local Artists: Melinda Moore
“Creative Focus,” an exhibit of Melinda Moore’s work, runs through June 15 at the Elsa Kimbell Environmental and Research Center, Jonathan Dickinson State Park, Hobe Sound. Viewing art in all…
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Compost
Sustainability is a word in the air, which is a good thing because who favors decline and decay? (Composters in fact do favor decay.) Gardening has a green voice in…
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Discover Local Artists at Art Rock at the Armory
The Armory Art Center Partners with Art Rock for a One Day Art Show + Indie Marketplace Event Art Rock, a cash-and-carry art show + indie marketplace will feature pop-surrealist,…
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Sweetbay Magnolia
The Sweetbay Natural Area near the Palm Beach North County Airport is native plant paradise on a beautiful day. Yesterday was such a day, and the PBSC Native Plants class…
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How Bout a Cup of Wild Coffee? (No thanks)
Answer: I’d like to get my mitts on the numbskull who made up the English names for the plants of the world. The only connection between the Wild Coffees and…
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Have a Headache? Chew a Willow Twig
Willows grow everywhere from the Wind in the Willows to the Bible to our own back yards. Long ago I ventured as a young botanist from Michigan to Brazil, expecting…
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Pond Apple Seriously Native and Blooming
How many beetle-pollinated flowers do you know? Among a few, Pond Apple and Sweetbay Magnolia, both in flower now. What I really like about Pond Apple lives primarily in my…
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Discover Local Artists at PBSC Student Show
The 26th Annual Student Exhibition, April 10 through May 4, is a showcase of artwork created by Palm Beach State College art students. The variety of work reflects the many…
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Stranger Figs are Curious Trees
As a kid on Florida vacations I found it scary that a malevolent tree throttles innocent others like the living garrote of the Green World. A more mature perspective is less…
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Virginia Willow — A Flowering Option for Moisty Shady Nooks
Virginia Willow (Itea virginica) is not a Willow; it merely likes streambanks and looks a wee bit like a Willow in overall shape and by having elongate leaves with tiny…
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Area vacancies still down, Rents up
Same good news as this time last year (here’s the story), some real estate statistics, where “falling” and “low” are good news – Jupiter, Tequesta, Palm Beach Gardens and North…
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Myrsine: Easy, Handsome, and Bulletproof
A rugged forgiving shrub or small tree abundant in south Florida natural areas and in landscaping is Myrsine (Rapanea punctata), a relative of the similar Marlberry (Ardisia escallonioides). Myrsine is…
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The Secret Life of Spanish Moss
A fond childhood memory originated when my Lake Alfred grandmother sent a box of Spanish Moss to my home in West Virginia. Perhaps the Spanish Moss was packing material for…
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Discover Local Artists: Endangered Florida Species
The exhibit, “Endangered Florida Species,” held on March 16 from 6 to 10 p.m., is hosted by Anthony and Trina Burks and Paul Fisher. The showcase highlights environmental sanctuaries and…
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Walter’s Viburnum
Recently walking distracted through a landscaped area by the Jupiter Medical Center I caught a pleasant whiff of a light floral scent. Like a botanical bloodhound, I tracked the source…
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Space Invaders
Occasionally success is too successful. Here are some plants to boost your garden-ego with guaranteed exuberance. They’re easy…a little too easy. After the honeymoon they take over your yard and…
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Discover Local Artists: Street Painting Festival 2012
By Christine Davis: Half way through… this morning around 9. Last year, it felt like it was all about ladies. This year, I’m struck by the portraits. They are engaging…
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Jamaica Caper, Tough, Pretty, and Eager to Please
By George Rogers: Is Jamaica Caper (Capparis jamaicensis) really a caper, as in Veal Piccata? Sorta in a sense. Grocery store capers are tasty flower buds of the Mediterranean Capparis…
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Native Hollies are Berry Pretty
By George Rogers: Round here about now the native hollies are beautifully berried. Although South Florida does without the traditional American Holly of wreaths, we have hollies of our own….
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Discover Local Artists: Gouveia and Futej
By Christine Davis: For the first time, Lake Worth artists Isabel Gouveia and Stephen Futej are exhibiting together as husband and wife in Parts and Pieces at the Art Gallery…
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MacArthur Beach State Park features Guy Harvey exhibit
Artist, researcher and biologist Guy Harvey will show off his iconic artwork beginning March 10, following the grand opening of the freshly renovated interpretive center at John D. MacArthur Beach…
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AFLAC in the Garden
By George Rogers: Why so many derogatory remarks about Muscovy Ducks? Yes, they decorate the sidewalk and beg shamelessly. Maybe they are a bit of a health hazard (if nothing…
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Mural makes homeless shelter brighter place to be
By Amy Woods: Toiling — and broiling — students from The Benjamin School’s Summer Institute painted a colorful and cartoon-like community mural at The Center for Family Services’ Pat Reeves…
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North County Real Estate Sales Comparison 2011 over 2010
By Christine Davis: North County real estate sales are looking up first half of 2011 over the same period in 2010. (Click here to view table with numbers comparing the…
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Faraway Dreams – Italian Castle
By Christine Davis: Visions of Grandeur — Just suppose you always wanted to own a castle (Sotheby’s International Realty does have one for sale in Northern Italy). Or maybe you’ve…
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An Island Escape
By Christine Davis: Aren’t interested in that castle in Italy? How about a home in The Bahamas? This one is on the eastern end of Paradise Island in the Ocean…
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If It Sounds too Good to Be True It Probably Is—Unless It Is ‘Louis Philippe’
By George Rogers: You may have heard it said that “you can’t grow roses in the tropics,” or in South Florida. That’s completely untrue….you just have to be selective. Roses…
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Discover Local Artists: Justin Lambert and Dennis Tishkowsky
By Christine Davis: Nature is the underlying theme for “Passages,” an exhibition by two Palm Beach State College art faculty, Justin Lambert and Dennis Tishkowsky at The Art Gallery at…
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Help the World Smell Better! Plant a Milky Way Tree
By George Rogers: This Thursday our PBSC Horticulture Plant Selections class savored the botanical wonderland Excelsa Gardens in Loxahatchee, under the spell of Colin Friedrich, one of the nursery’s expert…
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At home in England
By Christine Davis: So, the Italian castle wasn’t for you, nor were you interested in a home in the islands. How about a Georgian country residence and cottage in England?…
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Desert Senna: Small Tree with a Big-Tree Attitude
By George Rogers: This week my “Plant Selections for Landscape Situations” class visited Color Garden Farms, a leading commercial grower of colorful plants in Loxahatchee, where owner and human encyclopedia…
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Bamboo for You!
By George Rogers: Quick, what’s the biggest grass? Corn? Sugar Cane? No! Bamboo. My Plant Selections for Landscape Situations class last Thursday visited Tropical Bamboo in Loxahatchee CLICK for a one-afternoon…
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Foreign Nationals Buy Homes in Florida
By Christine Davis: Talk abounds about foreigners buying homes here in Florida. A survey released by the National Association of Realtors late summer said that of the $48.8 billion Florida…
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Discover Local Artists: Natural Interactions
By Christine Davis: The intersection of nature, creation and human influence on both is explored by three Palm Beach State College artists in “Natural Interactions,” an exhibit that runs from…
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Going Solar: with the O’Mahoneys
By Christine Davis: Jupiter resident Brian O’Mahoney didn’t have the energy to resist his wife’s green proclivity (or should I say, for fun, “sunny disposition?”). “I’m retired,” he said. “Emily,…
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Tropical Ranch Botanical Gardens
By George Rogers: This week’s garden treat was Tropical Ranch Botanical Gardens just west of Stuart where our hosts, garden owners Jim Haines and Diane Rexroad, enlightened and thrilled the…
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Be Creative With Natives
By George Rogers: This week’s Plant Selections class trip was into one of my favorite garden worlds, Meadowbeauty Native Plant Nursery in Lake Worth near Jog Road and Hypoluxo Road….
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Australian company opens solar business
By Christine Davis: The Cochranes and Super Green Solutions tie into two recent North County Current series: our stories on international buyers and real estate as well as an article…
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More on Wet Macular Degeneration: Eylea
By Christine Davis: Dr. Mark Michels and his team at Retina Care Specialists provided North County Current with an update on a medication, Eylea (VegF Trap Eye), for the treatment…
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Perennial Peanut Mowable Groundcover
Although not a new idea, something I’ve been seeing increasingly going about my business is mowable groundcovers, which have become sort of a national mini-trend. In the right places these…
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David Fairchild
As I mentioned in an earlier article, I’ve been dabbling in the history of South Florida horticulture, which leads fast to David Fairchild (1869-1954), an icon to many local gardeners…
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Discover Local Artists: Afloat in Miami
By Christine Davis: The SeaFair became a floating art fair, for the 3rd edition of Miami International Art Fair, now through January 16. Docked at 100 Chopin Plaza, Miami, it’s…
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