Francis Marion National Forest, Part 1 — orchids, carnivorous plants, and other amazing stuff — 2014-05-03
Early on Saturday morning (5:30 am to be precise), May 3, I left for one of my favorite places for Spring wildflowers — the Francis Marion National Forest in Berkeley County, near Charleston, South Carolina. It’s a large holding – more than 250,000 acres of bottom-land swamps and Longleaf pine savannahs. Today, it is the