Welcome to Jay's Native Plant Nursery - possibly the more prestigious nursery in central Florida. Here is a Google Maps presentation of how to get there. Click and drag and drive yourself to Jay's NPN.
Here is a Google view of Jay's Ft. Meade branch of Jay's NPN
Here is Fort Meade
And every place needs a fine eating place and Ft. Meade is no exception. The Broadway Cafe is it! Tested once by me and multiple times by Prof Ben. Wonderful chicken & dumplin's, burgers and sweet tea.
Its all about plants, understanding, water, patience and ... Here is the sprintker system and nursery pots
Step up pots for Long Leaf pines
A field of plantlets
Prof. Ben, checking up on plants
and some sprinkler repair
More sprinkler repair
Serious native flowers Lantana
Its all about stepping up: from 1 gallon pots to 3 gallon pots
Pines
Staging the step up
No serious NPN is complete without an aquatic nursery - for bull rushes and other delightful water plants
Waiting to be planted
Bull rush in the aqua plots
Baby long leaf pines in the foreground
Young pines
Prof Ben explaing stuff to me
Looking at root development
A closer look at another rooting long leaf pine - this one is not well developed
Colors everywhere
Here is something interesting - before (backgound) a something producing seed (soon to be harvested). In front - young somethings
A view of the seed machine
and the seed to be harvested
Prof. Ben's pride - silver palmetto trees
C. Frank Starmer