Wormsloe Wandering T-Shirt

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The 1.5 mile (2.4 km) avenue of arching live oak trees at Wormsloe Plantation near Savannah, Georgia is a must-see destination any time of year, but the scene is especially beautiful in the winter when the resurrection ferns are in full growth. Like Spanish moss, this epiphyte, or “air plant”, uses a host plant (live oak, pecan, or sabal palm) as its growing surface. The ferns do not damage the trees. Their root system is composed of long, winding rhizomes that tuck into the nooks and crannies of the tree’s bark, collecting rainwater and nutrients from airborne dust and nutrients leaching from the trees themselves. In late February, the ferns cover the live oak trees of the southern United States, making scenes like this one ever more appealing. During the summer months the ferns are brown and appear dead, and almost disappear into the tree trunk host. With the cool, damp weather of winter these ferns experience an annual "resurrection" of verdancy.

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Doug and Marcy Wielfaert are a husband and wife team located near the Great Smoky Mountains with photo galleries in Knoxville, Tennessee at Painted Tree Boutiques and at the Shoppes at Grit & Grace Market in Cleveland, Tennessee. We love traveling across the country and around the world to capture beautiful images for our stores and artist Websites, and we'd love nothing more than to know that one of our works has found a spot in your home or place of work.