Indian Trails Native Nursery

Indian Trails Native Nursery Wholesale nursery open to the public, specializing in FL native plants for sustainable landscaping. - Grow
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Got Milk...w**d? Chemical free. A. incarnata, A. tuberosa, and A. perennis avail now. $10 ea.
08/15/2026

Got Milk...w**d? Chemical free. A. incarnata, A. tuberosa, and A. perennis avail now. $10 ea.

Chemical Free Asclepias incarnata. Pink Milkw**d. $10 ea. Many in stock. Open this Saturday no appointment necessary fro...
07/07/2026

Chemical Free Asclepias incarnata. Pink Milkw**d. $10 ea. Many in stock. Open this Saturday no appointment necessary from 8 to 4. We will be closed Saturday July 25th.

06/24/2026

In the swamps of Collier County, Florida, there are trees that were already 200 years old when Columbus sailed for the Americas. They are still standing. And walking among them on a dawn morning is one of the most quietly overwhelming experiences available anywhere in this state. 🌿🌲✨

The Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, managed by the National Audubon Society in Collier County, protects the largest remaining old-growth bald cypress forest in North America, a cathedral of ancient trees whose oldest individuals date back over 700 years. These are not just old trees. They are living witnesses to Florida's entire recorded history and most of its pre-contact history as well, trees that were already centuries old when the first Spanish explorers arrived on this peninsula, that sheltered Calusa and Seminole people in their shadows, that watched the Everglades drainage projects of the 20th century reduce the water levels around their roots and yet somehow survived. A 2.25-mile boardwalk winds through the sanctuary, allowing visitors to walk at eye level with the understory while the ancient cypress towers above in a canopy so dense that the light reaching the swamp floor is more like twilight than day even at noon.

Corkscrew is also one of the most important wood stork nesting colonies in the United States, with the federally threatened birds returning each winter to nest in the cypress canopy in numbers that fluctuate with water levels but in good years can reach into the thousands. The combination of ancient trees, extraordinary wildlife, and absolute stillness makes Corkscrew one of the most spiritually affecting natural places in Florida. Have you ever walked the Corkscrew boardwalk at dawn? Drop a comment and follow The Real Florida for more natural wonders worth protecting. 🌴🦢

06/24/2026

🔥 THIS HEAT IS NOT PLAYING AROUND

“Heat Risk”, a new full spectrum heat index to better gauge heat stress on people, gets worse each day through Monday across much of Florida.

This is the kind of heat that can wear people down fast, especially when nights stay warm and your body does not get much of a break.

No A/C? Working outside? Taking care of kids or older family? This is where heat becomes more than uncomfortable.

Hydrate early. Take breaks. Check on neighbors. Bring pets inside.

And yes, even the gator looks over it. 🐊🥵

Call me: 561-641-9488 if interested.
06/23/2026

Call me: 561-641-9488 if interested.

05/16/2026

For about twenty years, the well-intentioned advice from butterfly gardeners across the Southeast was the same: plant milkw**d for the monarchs.

And the milkw**d that nurseries actually carried — the bright orange-and-yellow showstopper available at every garden center — was tropical milkw**d, Asclepias curassavica. It grew fast.

It bloomed all year. Monarchs flocked to it. What we now know is that it was quietly making things worse. In June 2025, the Florida Invasive Species Council (FISC) officially classified tropical milkw**d as a Category II invasive species across all regions of the state — north, central, and south.

The University of Florida's IFAS Assessment lists it as invasive throughout Florida and explicitly not recommended. The Florida Association of Native Nurseries (FANN) updated its 2025-2026 ethics policy to flag tropical milkw**d for removal from member inventories, and UF Extension's current recommendation is to inspect plants for active monarch caterpillars and, if none are present, remove the plant entirely.

The reason is biological. Tropical milkw**d doesn't go dormant in Florida winters the way the state's 21 native milkw**d species do. It keeps growing year-round. And monarchs that find it growing in January don't migrate — they stay, breed locally, and accumulate massive parasite loads of Ophryocystis elektroscirrha (OE), a protozoan that deforms wings, shortens lifespan, and prevents emergence from the chrysalis.

The plant that gardeners thought they were providing as a butterfly buffet was effectively trapping monarchs into a year-round disease cycle and breaking the migration that defines the species.

Florida has 21 native milkw**d species, and three are commonly available through native plant nurseries: swamp milkw**d (Asclepias incarnata), with pink flowers and a love of damp ground; aquatic milkw**d (Asclepias perennis), with white flowers for wet or partly shaded sites; and butterfly w**d (Asclepias tuberosa), with brilliant orange blooms for sunny, well-drained spots. All of them go dormant in winter. None of them harbor OE the way tropical does.

None of them disrupt migration. If you have tropical milkw**d in your garden right now, the current guidance is straightforward: remove it (after checking for active caterpillars) and replace it with one or more of the 21 native species. The intentions were always good. The science has just caught up.

LOOk at these cuties!
05/01/2026

LOOk at these cuties!

04/20/2026

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6315 Park Lane W
Lake Worth, FL
33449

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