The Villages Chapter FNPS continues transforming landscapes

Get a glimpse of The Villages landscapes that everyone is talking about in The Villages in this short video.

FANN Executive Director Cammie Donaldson was recently privileged to tour the latest Florida native landscape exemplars in The Villages, a golf course community with homeowner associations and a high demand for meticulous landscaping. Members of the The Villages Chapter Florida Native Plant Society hosted a members-only landscape tour on September 30, 2016. The chapter has taken on strategic goals of converting a certain number of landscapes each year under the leadership of Steve Turnipseed, who has presented some of this excellent work at FANN’s Native Plant Show and the FNPS annual conference.

Cammie was especially delighted to introduce the chapter’s great work, in the form of several transformed landscapes, to Richard and Juanita Baker of the Eugenia Chapter FNPS. Active conservationists in Indian River County, the Bakers were very impressed with what they saw, took innumerable photos and notes, and signed Steve Turnipseed up to speak to their chapter and residents of Indian River communities with similar landscape needs. Richard, president of the Pelican Island Audubon Society, wrote a very enthusiastic article about the experience for his members.