Developments to the North

Curious about what's happening at the Benderson Rowing facility? Or the construction of the Honore, Cattlemen, and Fruitville corridors? Or the Celery Fields park?

For an update on a large set of coordinated planning efforts centered on Fruitville Rd. and I-75, have a look at the Civics 101 blog.

Urfer Family Park Celebrates First Birthday

Celebration today at Urfer Family Park!

Native plants

Wild coffee is a perennial plant

which grows 1-4 feet tall. It

produces whitish to purplish

flowers. The fruit can be

white, yellow or red.

Native plants

The Firebush has orange-red tubular flowers. The flowers attract hummingbirds and butterflies. Birds eat the small dark red berries.

Salvia has flowering stems. The tubular flower colors range from red to blue.

Walters viburnum is a shrub or a small tree with glossy evergreen leaves and clusters of fragrant flowers.

Native Plants

The Coreopsois is a yellow
daisy-like flower with a two
inch circle of bracts around
the flower head. It blooms
in the summer in full sun.
This flower is excellent for wild gardens, containers
and in garden beds. It blooms better if the dead flowers
are removed (dead headed).

The Coral bean is a flowering shrub or a small tree. It

grows from 3'9" to 16 feet.

It attracts hummingbirds.

The Beauty berry flowers bloom
in clusters 2-5mm in diameter.

The fruit is red-purple with a highly

distinctive metallic lustre. The berries

are an important survival food for

birds and other animals.

Park's natural wonders

More pictures of nature

Wildlfe

Pictures shared taken at the park

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Wood ducks photographed in park on March 22 2010.

Recognition for Rothenbach Park

Check out this site. http://countybeat.blogs.heraldtribune.com/10794/rothenbach-park-lauded-by-environmental-engineers/

Ray and I think it is really nice that a group of professionals recognized all the work that went into the creative design that has been used at Rothenbach Park. Hopefully we will have more people come visit and enjoy the park after reading this blog.

On June 29th Friends of Rothenbach Park planted some Florida native plants at the beginning of the Turkey Trail which starts at the shell parking lot. The native plants were purchased through a grant offered by the Legacy Trail Chapter. We thank the chapter members of Legacy Trail for helping beautify our park. Most of the newly planted plants are not new to the park. They are growing naturally and can be seen along the trails.

The chapter members did a 'rain dance' to help the new plants grow. If you hear thunder with the afternoon showers it may be because one of the members accidentally did a 'war' dance.