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The wonderful Connect to Protect Network

Saving pine rockland flora and fauna, one garden at a time.

By: Mary Benton, Co-Founder of Bound by Beauty
Fairchild Garden's Connect to Protect yard sign.

Bound by Beauty connected recently with Jennifer Possley and Peter Vrotsos, both of whom are involved in Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden's Connect to Protect Network, which seeks to protect the critically endangered pine rockland habitats of South Florida.  We met them at Fairchild's nursery on a day of threatening skies and downpours, to pick up Bound by Beauty's five native pine rockland plants, which include host plants for butterflies, as well as plants that provide food for butterflies and other wildlife, and 10 pine rockland plants for the Miami Shores Community Church school's community garden.  Read more about this very important effort to save pine rockland species, and learn how you can become a member of the network and receive your own native plants here.  We will be scheduling a planting at the school soon, so stay tuned!

Jennifer Possley of Fairchild Garden, flanked by Mary Benton and Helen Perry of Bound by Beauty. Not pictured, Peter Vrotsos

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