We Have Flowers Blooming Year Round!

Autumn season at Cypress Gardens offers a different experience.
Below is a list of the common blooms and wildlife seen during each month:

September

Average temperatures range from 60 to 80 degrees F.

• Fall migration for birds is apparent as the mixed blackbird and grackle flocks continue to grow in number; Solitary Sandpipers, Palm and Black and White Warblers pass through; and the numbers of Gray Catbirds build to spend the winter.
• Gone until spring are the:
  • Yellow-throated Vireo
  • Acadian Flycatcher
  • Great-crested Flycatchers
  • Northern Parula
  • Eastern Kingbird
  • Purple Martin
  • Yellow-throated Warbler
  • Summer Tanager
  • Blue Grosbeak
• Composites continue to rule the flowering plants including:
  • Bur-marigold (Bidens laevis)
  • Climbing Aster (Aster carolinianus)
  • Goldenrods (Solidago)
• Antique Roses bloom again by months end.
  

October

Average temperatures range from 40 to 70 degrees F.

• This is the prime fall month for observing the leaf-color change in deciduous plants and trees. The needles of our only deciduous conifer, the Bald Cypress, turn rust-brown.
• Many of September's composites continue to flower, but most have gone to seed.
• A few amphibians, such as the Ornate Chorus Frog, gear up for their fall and winter breeding season.
• Great-horned and Screech Owls are more vocal.
• Bird migration continues as Red-eyed Vireos and Indigo Buntings will soon vanish until next spring.
• Winter arrivals include the:
  • Pied-billed Grebe
  • Eastern phoebe
  • House Wren
  • Winter Wren
  • Golden-crowned Kinglet
  • Ruby-crowned Kinglet
  • American Robin
  • Song Sparrow
  • Yellow-rumped Warbler
  • White-throated Sparrow
• Butterflies remain plentiful and the striking Purple Hairstreak is notable.
  

November

Average temperatures range from 30 to 60 degrees F.

• Deciduous plants continue to become bare of leaves, including the Bald Cypress.
• The extensive old plantings of Camellias (mostly from Japan) begin to flower.
• Winter resident bird species continue to arrive, such as the:
  • Hermit Thrush
  • Cedar Waxwing
  • Pine Siskin
  • American Goldfinch
  • Dark-eyed Junco
  • Chipping Sparrow
  • American Woodcock
  • Brown Creeper
• Insect activity is slowing.