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Beautiful shades of blue lupine in South Walton
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ItzKatzTime
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They are so beautiful.....I smile everytime I pass them. Monet would have made them famous! Or, maybe someone else already has.
jodiFL
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I hate to see folks that dont really know much about gardening ruining it for everyone. Bay Drive used to covered on both sides with beautiful liatris but people (including one owner of a local florist) would come and cut them while in full bloom. Dont think that they knew that the plant needed to "go to seed" to replenish themselves and now there is rarely one to be found.
Susan Horn
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All the connector roads between 30A and 98 used to have liatris in abundance. I know 395 best, and the variety there was a VERY tall cultivar, and it was beautiful for weeks late in summer or fall each year.
I remember being horrified, way back in the early 90s I think, to see a woman with a van full of buckets she was loading with cut liatris. Like enough to do the flowers for a royal wedding or something. I was not confident in myself at the time and didn't say anything, didn't know what to say. Might be different today, but the liatris are long gone thanks to her and others doing the same thing.
Some states actually have laws prohibiting the harvesting of wildflowers, which are regarded as part of the public commons, owned by all and therefore harvestable by none. Ladybird Johnson got that whole thing started, as I recall.
Anybody know if we have such laws here? And if we do, does anyone really think the Sheriff would enforce them?
I remember being horrified, way back in the early 90s I think, to see a woman with a van full of buckets she was loading with cut liatris. Like enough to do the flowers for a royal wedding or something. I was not confident in myself at the time and didn't say anything, didn't know what to say. Might be different today, but the liatris are long gone thanks to her and others doing the same thing.
Some states actually have laws prohibiting the harvesting of wildflowers, which are regarded as part of the public commons, owned by all and therefore harvestable by none. Ladybird Johnson got that whole thing started, as I recall.
Anybody know if we have such laws here? And if we do, does anyone really think the Sheriff would enforce them?
mikecat adjuster
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Lupine
Every time I pass that area I view them on my travels. What a lovely site. It's thick there and the first time I noticed it this season I was astonished and for a second, wondered if it was wild or planted by the nursery.
I still haven't stopped off for a picture. And thanks, Kurt, for letting people know of the plant being protected and about it not being transportable. I noticed some beautiful flowers along a trail that I walk that were cut recently. I was upset. I understand the temptation, but when so many people can pass along and enjoy something, it makes no sense to steal that view. That's why I walk around with my shirt off
j/k
Every time I pass that area I view them on my travels. What a lovely site. It's thick there and the first time I noticed it this season I was astonished and for a second, wondered if it was wild or planted by the nursery.
I still haven't stopped off for a picture. And thanks, Kurt, for letting people know of the plant being protected and about it not being transportable. I noticed some beautiful flowers along a trail that I walk that were cut recently. I was upset. I understand the temptation, but when so many people can pass along and enjoy something, it makes no sense to steal that view. That's why I walk around with my shirt off
j/k
florida girl
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I understood Blue Mountain to be called that because the Spaniards planted Rosemary in their gardens which naturalized, and covered the dunes with blue.