Actually this property has been in my family for 35years or more I inherited back in 2001 when my dad died. I would never be able to purchase a piece of land like that at the price it would sell for. The house I grew up in which my little brother has is across the street from it. I am only 28 an currently have a house 4 miles away that I own. So there is no set plans on the house this is just my property. Years and years away if any. There are only 13 other houses and it is a private neighborhood. All the houses are built on stilts around the natural florida habitat or wetlands. This would be a requirement if I ever do get to put a house on it. But in the mean time if you have seen the blog then you can see I am a man that fears no seed or plant challenge. So I am doing my homework, reading up on orchids and growing new babies, talking to neighbors and I really want to try to repopulate the neighborhood. I took a little stroll through the neighborhood today and spotted at least 5 other trees from the street that had colonies growing on them. So I am very excited about doing this I love challenges so stay tuned and I will keep you all updated on my future endeavors. Here is a partial shot of the property The Live Oaks must be over 100 years old or more. These trees are all over the neighborhood so there is lots of good spots for the orchids to grow. And the other shot is one of the other colonies I saw today. It has almost wrapped around the trees limb completely. Sorry for the long post but it is my first on your board so just trying to fill yall in. Check back on the blog to watch my plants grow. Always posting new pictures. Here is a link that might be useful: My Yard in Fort Pierce FL

I just so happen to be at my parents house today with my much better camera (used cell phone for the first picture) I will upload a few better shots later tonight. Please come back and check and see if you can help me identify this plant. I do really love it. It's quite beautiful but if it's invasive I don't want to move it to my yard.

Re: Daffodils, store bought or not I agree with esh ga that daffodils are generally a hardy lot. However, those of us in the warmer sections of the country--Zones 7B and higher--need to be careful in selecting daffodil cultivars for the landscape. Not all daffodils are reliably perennial in our climate. Two excellent cultivars for the South are 'Ice Follies' and 'Carlton.' These cultivars and a number of others come back dependably year after year. However, my favorite daffodil is the endearing little Lent Lily (_Narcissus pseudonarcissus_) that was brought over by the earliest British colonists--the "wild" daffodil that marks the sites of the vanished homesteads and gardens of our Southern ancestors. Along with Roman hyacinths (_Hyacinthus orientalis var. albulus_), the Campernelle narcissus (_Narcissus x odorus_), and snowdrops, or snowflakes, (_Leucojum aestivum_), the Lent Lily offers a delicate beauty that is missing from its modern horticultural counterparts. I agree with others who have said to get permission before digging up these roadside treasures. We live in the country and have had a recent problem with plant thieves digging into a bed of spider lilies (_Lycoris radiata_) planted a little too close to the road. The plant thieves stole one clump of bulbs and left another clump lying on the ground. I assume the thievery was interrupted by a passerby. This happened while the bulbs were blooming in late August or September, so I rescued them and planted them temporarily in a large nursery pot where they put up their foliage. I plan to replant them somewhere else a little farther from the road. Old House Gardens would be one good mail-order source for Lent Lilies, or "wild" daffodils, and other heirloom bulbs. They have a fine Website and an excellent reputation. Brent and Becky's Bulbs is another excellent source for hundreds of daffodils and other bulbs. They, too, have a fine Website and an excellent reputation. The Southern Bulb Company is a third excellent source for heirloom bulbs. The Southern Bulb Company also has a fine Website and an excellent reputation. But please don't dig without first getting permission. As a passionate gardener with a sentimental attachment to many of my plants, I was quite distressed upon discovering the theft of our spider lilies that originally came from my grandmother's garden and, no doubt, ultimately from an older Southern garden than hers. They are a living link to my Southern horticultural heritage.

Definitely not the Epipactis Helleborine. This particular plant stays in this form, and doesn't really sprawl when (if) it flowers. It seems to stay very compacted. If I recall, the flower was set in the leaves instead of forming out, if that makes any sense! I'll have to keep an eye on it every day to watch for a flower.