We Need Your Help

We need your help!

This has been an ambitious year for us at Florida Native and Naturalized Orchids, with many field trips already under our belt for the year and several that we would still like to take. 

Here is what we've done so far for this year:

• Disney Wilderness Preserve to film Calopogon multiflorus in flower.
• Florida panhandle to photograph terrestrial bog orchids. During this trip, we discovered the first known population of Calopogon multiflorus in Leon County and filmed a large Pogonia colony deep in the Apalachicola National Forest.
• South-central Florida to film Calopogon tuberosus and Sacoila lanceolata in large colonies.
• Everglades National Park to try to photograph Trichocentrum undulatum in flower - unfortunately, we missed finding these in bloom.
• Eastern Orange County on multiple occasions to film Calopogon tuberosus in flower, Enc. tampensis in flower and Dendrophylax porrectus in its habitat. We found a rare alba form of Calopogon tuberosus on one of these trips.

Here are some field trips we hope to make:

• Fakahatchee Strand to photograph and film ghost orchids within the week.
• Withlacoochee State Forest, likely multiple times, to photograph rare Triphora orchids.
• Eastern Orange County to film Dendrophylax in flower.
• Everglades National Park in late summer/early fall to photograph and film Dollar Orchids in flower.
• Fakahatchee Strand again in the Fall to photograph and film Campylocentrum pachyrhizum.

Each of these field trips costs money for gasoline, food, and water, as well as other expenses such as camera memory cards, insect repellent, and the like. In short, it's not cheap to bring all these beautiful wild orchids to you on our website, Facebook, our Youtube channel, and blog. 

NOTE: due to the rare nature of the orchids we will be photographing, these upcoming field trips will not be open to the public.

I need your help to make these plans a reality. A donation in any amount, even $5 for a gallon of gasoline and a gallon of water (it sure gets hot in some of these places), will help us with our costs. Considering how many fans we have for this page, if a reasonable percentage of you good folks gave even a small amount, we will be able to continue to venture into the wild for the rest of this year and bring you amazing photos and video of Florida's untamed orchids.

Here is the link to make a secure donation to our cause via PayPal using either an existing PayPal account or a debit/credit card.

www.flnativeorchids.com/donate.htm


If you want to donate a larger amount, say $330, we have a number of lovely photo canvases that we can send you to show our gratitude. Please e-mail me at premsta@gmail.com for availability.


If you are not able to donate, please consider sharing this page and this link with friends who you know might be interested - people who enjoy nature, hiking, the outdoors, wildflowers, gardening, and orchids all have found enjoyment in our pages. Through your generous help, we can expand the information and imagery we have to offer on this and our other web sites.

Thank you, in advance, for any help you, our faithful readers, can provide.
Sincerely,

---Prem Subrahmanyam and the Florida Native Orchids crew.