Florida is a fantastic place to live if you enjoy wildflowers. In southern Florida, something is blooming pretty much all year round. Up here in north central Florida we do have a short period where very little blooms, but we do have an extremely long growing season and lots of really gorgeous wildflowers. Most of the time we think of spring as the time for flowers (April showers bring May flowers), but we have plenty of them in the fall, too. Some of the prettiest ones are these delicate, pink to white tamarisks (Tamarix spp.). Not only are they gorgeous, but the small pollinators love them. About a month ago, when they were in their prime, I found a large patch of them that were full of several types of bees, wasps, flies, beetles, and ants. I even found a spider with her egg sac there. The flowers have all passed to seed now and most of our pollinators have either died or gone into hibernation, but I will most definitely be visiting that site again now that I know it’s there.