The second part of this most recent weekend photography trip took me to one of my favorite spots: The Green Swamp Preserve in Brunswick County, North Carolina. It is comprised of around 16,000 acres of longleaf pine savannahs, dense pocosins, and flatwoods swamps. On this trip, I was joined by my good friends, Kelvin Taylor

This past weekend, I made my annual mid-summer trip down to the Francis Marion National Forest, Berkeley County, South Carolina. It is a huge area (250,000 acres) on the South Carolina coastal plain, habitat for some of the best longleaf pine savannahs in the state. For that reason, there are myriad wildflowers and orchids inhabiting

So many of you, dear readers, have asked me about my Three-birds orchids bloom predictions that I thought I’d give you a brief lesson. Please remember that this is not a perfect way of predicting the bloom. Although it has worked for me about 95% of the time, it may not work that well for

As I mentioned in my previous post – Part 1 about the wildflowers I had recently photographed in the Pisgah National Forest, the remainder of the trip consists of those species I saw and photographed at relatively high altitude (at or above 5000 feet/1500 meters) along the Blue Ridge Parkway in Transylvania County, North Carolina.

As I mentioned in my previous post about the Three-birds orchids in the Pisgah National Forest, I had been in the area the day before and had photographed wild orchids and other wildflowers in the Pisgah NF and along the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina. Today’s blog discussion will cover those species I saw