Chapter Newsletter

The Understory is the bimonthly newsletter of the Pinellas Chapter. To receive the current issue, you must be an FNPS member. Pinellas Chapter members will receive The Understory automatically. Members of other FNPS chapters may also receive The Understory by signing up on our email subscription page.

If you have a story or photograph you'd like to contribute to the the Pinellas Chapter's newsletter, please send it to the editor, Craig Huegel. The deadline is the 10th of the month prior to publication.

In addition to The Understory, FNPS members also receive the quarterly journal The Palmetto and bimonthly newsletter Sabal Minor. You can visit www.fnps.org to find the websites of other FNPS chapters, many of whom also have newsletters posted online, and a membership application form.

In 2006, The Pinellas Chapter began distributing The Understory to its subscribers electronically. Back issues published since that time are listed below as downloadable PDFs:

December 2009–January 2010 October–November 2009 August–September 2009 June–July 2009 April–May 2009 February–March 2009 December 2008–January 2009 October–November 2008 August–September 2008 Jun–July 2008 April–May 2008

February–March 2008 December 2007–January 2008 October–November 2007 August–September 2007 June–July 2007 April–May 2007 February–March 2007 December 2006–January 2007 October–November 2006 August–September 2006

Selected Articles from The Understory

Most of the articles below are from pre-2006 issues of the The Understory. A few are from other chapters' newsletters or other sources.

Plant Profiles:			Ecosystems: Flatwoods Florida: The Fire State Freshwater Swamps Mangroves Scrub—Part I Scrub—Part II Essays: An Acquired Taste Cypress Mulch Establishing Natives at Home Hole-in-the-Ground Holiday Decorating with Natives Introducing Natives Into Your Landscape Landscape Design with Native Plants Salt Tolerant Plants & Flooding The Spirit of Place
The Mimic: Australian Pine Azaleas Blueberries Carolina Jessamine Cassias Citrus Coralbean Climbing Aster Coreopsis Elms Eryngiums Ferns	Firebush Grasses for Lawns Gum Trees Iris Mangroves Milkweeds "Non-Goldenrods" Orchids Palms Passion Vines Perennial Wonders The So-Called Porterweeds	Redroot Ruellias Saltbush Salvias Seeing Red Sunflowers Swamp Dogwood Tillandsias Tupelos Vines Wild Plums Wildflowers in Your Garden

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