Why Florida Native Plant Month?
A New Initiative As the weather turns nicer and chapter events start increasing, the Florida Native Plant Society is starting a new initiative for the fall this year. Welcome to the first ever Florida Native Plant Month! You can find a list of events at http://fnps.org/news/plantmonth . The St. Johns County Proclamation of October being Florida's Native Plant Month We are working on a coordinated outreach and membership campaign to tell everyone we can find in the state about the work FNPS does. As part of this, we are building relationships with local elected officials, media and organizations who may not know much about us. The proclamation document. There are currently 36 scheduled proclamations across the state for an event FNPS decided to proceed with in late July. We have already found people that share a similar mindset as FNPS who were not members. One of the coolest stories so far is a City Commissioner reaching out to us because he wanted to do a Flo