#Coccoloba #RiverOaksPreserve Plant Sale and Workday

Tue Mar 31, 2026 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Estero's River Oaks Preserve
9541 Broadway Ave E, Estero, FL 33928

"Estero’s River Oaks Preserve is a passive recreational area with a strong focus on concepts of simplicity, natural/native care of the land, #sustainability, and being 'one with nature.' This property will expose visitors to a lesser-known side of Florida – one with shiny blueberries, #hogplums, #GopherApple, #ButterflyMilkweed and where the gopher tortoises live.​

This Project is a partnership between the Coccoloba Chapter of the Florida #NativePlant Society and the Village of #Estero. Support includes USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, #Audubon of Southwest #Florida and others.

Volunteer hours are Sundays and Tuesdays from 9-1. Come check us out!

Throughout the property, you will find:

- cabbage palm (Sabal palmetto)
- common fanpetals (Sida ulmifolia)
- common ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia)
- kiss-me-quick (Portulaca pilosa)
- laurel oak (Quercus laurifolia)
- live oak (Quercus virginiana)
- Poor-man's-pepper (Lepidium virginicum)
- southern river sage (Salvia misella)
- Spanish needles (Bidens alba)
- tropical sage (Salvia coccinea)
- whitemouth dayflower (Commelina erecta) "

Learn more:
https://www.riveroakspreserve.org/river-oaks-preserve.html

#SolarPunkSunday #FloridaEvents #NativePlants #SpendTimeInNature #NaturePreserve

River Oaks Preserve

ESTERO'S RIVER OAKS PRESERVE ​9541 BROADWAY EAST ​ ESTERO, FL 33928

The Coccoloba and Naples Chapters of the Florida Native Plant Society

I love the complex patterns and soft spirals that the butterfly milkweed seeds make in late Autumn!

#ButterflyMilkweed #MilkweedSeeds #Autumn #Fall #TrumbullCT #Connecticut

Busy western Honey Bee searching every curve and crevice of the butterfly milkweed flowers for nectar.

#Bee #HoneyBee #Pollinator #BloomScrolling #ButterflyMilkweed #ButterflyWeed #TrumbullCT #Connecticut

A hungry Eastern Bumble Bee sipping nectar from the flowers of a Butterfly Milkweed plant.

#BumbleBee #Bee #Pollinator #ButterflyMilkweed #ButterflyWeed #TrumbullCT #Connecticut

Butterfly milkweed, seemingly attracting a fly wearing magic golden armor (+1 AC?). I've got an app that swears it's a Pure Golden Green Sweat bee, but I'm highly skeptical that anything with such an exotic name would actually hang out in our yard.

#fly #flies #bees #bloomScrolling #flower #flowers #butterflyMilkweed #nature #dungeonsAndDragons

We have a monarch butterfly caterpillar living on our butterfly milkweed plants! This was always the dream, and now it is reality.

#Butterfly #Caterpillar #MonarchButterfly #ButterflyMilkweed #TrumbullCT #Connecicut #BloomScrolling

The "butterfly" milkweed is allegedly a favorite flower of the monarch butterfly. Well, we finally had one show up today to check the flowers out! https://youtu.be/LyD0_ALVmgY

#Butterfly #Monarch #MonarchButterfly #ButterflyMilkweed #BloomScrolling #TrumbullCT #Connecticut

Monarch Butterfly in the Milkweed

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Eastern bumble bee enjoying our butterfly milkweed flowers.

#BumbleBee #Pollinators #ButterflyMilkweed #ButterflyWeed #Flowers #TrumbullCT #Connecticut