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  • Panhandle wet to peninsula dry


    Click on map to view detailed KBDI drought charts
    throughout Florida
    Note: Interesting how the western panhandle is showing up wet [...]
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  • Forgone conclusion?

    The KBDI atmospheric drought index is climbing to the top.

    Just as spring is the season that everything in the swamp (i.e. on the ground) really dry out, it's also the season when powerful winter fronts (with rain) also break through.  Two years ago we got the former and [...]
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  • Little Marsh

    It's actually quite big:
    All I can figure is that next to
    Okaloacoochee Slough on a map
    it looks small.
    [...]
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  • Little Marsh

    It's actually quite big:
    All I can figure is that next to
    Okaloacoochee Slough on a map
    it looks small.
    [...]
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  • A little marsh

    Winter rains won't rise water up to the pines,

    But they can fill up the low spots like the small circular marsh below.

    As seen next to Little Marsh
    shortly after a winter rain storm
    in February 2012
    We could use one of those rains about' [...]
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  • Marsh-pocked pines

    As seen north of Alligator Alley
    February 2012
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  • Florida Groundhog Day Explained

    Florida has Groundhog Day ...

    Except it doesn't fall on February 2nd.

    Labor Day, not February 2nd,
    is Groundhog Day in south Florida Hint: South Floridians would love winter to last all year, it's the summer (even into fall) that never seems to end. Thus that makes Labor' [...]
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  • Protected!

    And maleleuca free!
    [...]
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  • How to: Getting rid of maleleuca

    The flowers have a certain beauty,

    but its a beauty best kept to their native land (Australia).

    Don't blame the plant One way to get rid of them is of course to cut them all down.

    The problem with that approach is that houses usually spring up' [...]
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  • Not counting the water

    I've often wondered
    how much a flower bed
    like this costs
    ' [...]
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