Woodbine is a tiny coastal town in Southeast Georgia located on the Satilla River.
The Satilla separates Jekyll Island from Cumberland Island.
Woodbine is south of Brunswick, GA, and north of Jacksonville, FL,
west of Cumberland Island http://www.nps.gov/cuis/index.htm
http://www.sherpaguides.com/georgia/coast/southern_coast/cumberland_island_national_seashore.html
east of the Okefenokee Swamp. http://www.fws.gov/okefenokee/
http://sherpaguides.com/georgia/okefenokee_swamp/wildnotes/index.html
Yaupon is indigenous to this region.
Yaupon grows in great numbers on the northern end of Cumberland, specifically at Terrapin Point, and on the sourthern edges of Christmas Creek's marsh. I did not see any Yaupon from Table Point all the way back down to Seacamp. On the south end, there is much Yaupon around the Southend ponds, and along the marshes edge of Beach Creek up to the Cemetery and the Grange. There are a few sporadic Yaupon in the Dune zones behind the beaches. Yaupon prefers areas near marsh frontage. Also some old Yaupon around Stafford and Stafford Cemetery.
Yaupon grows on both the southern and northern ends of Jekyll, and in certain spots of Woodbine, GA.
Our Yaupon grove grows in the shade of dozens of large mature southern live oaks (Quercus virginiana), and the site is surrounded by brackish marshlands which were once cotton plantations, now replanted with cypress as a wetlands mitigation bank. Many of the Yaupon have grown upwards of thirty feet high, with trunks up to ten inches in diameter. Some of the older plants in shade have rather large leaves, which get much darker than plants growing
in full sun and sandier locations. The population also contains dwarf varities. The leaf litter from the live oaks provides natural fertilizer and contributes to the dark rich topsoil on top of the sands and clays. Our Yaupon grove has never had artificial fertilizer, insecticides or herbicides sprayed on it in the last dozen years. Before we possessed this grove, it was used as a cattle farm, and before that it was the site of the slave's quarters for the Bedell Plantation in Woodbine. Indian arrowheads have been found on roads on site. The grove comprises about three acres, and contains thousands of Yaupon plants from the large mature plants to lawn of new seedlings and young plants which get regularly mowed. We leave islands of Yaupons to grow to maturity around the live oaks.
The Satilla separates Jekyll Island from Cumberland Island.
Woodbine is south of Brunswick, GA, and north of Jacksonville, FL,
west of Cumberland Island http://www.nps.gov/cuis/index.htm
http://www.sherpaguides.com/georgia/coast/southern_coast/cumberland_island_national_seashore.html
east of the Okefenokee Swamp. http://www.fws.gov/okefenokee/
http://sherpaguides.com/georgia/okefenokee_swamp/wildnotes/index.html
Yaupon is indigenous to this region.
Yaupon grows in great numbers on the northern end of Cumberland, specifically at Terrapin Point, and on the sourthern edges of Christmas Creek's marsh. I did not see any Yaupon from Table Point all the way back down to Seacamp. On the south end, there is much Yaupon around the Southend ponds, and along the marshes edge of Beach Creek up to the Cemetery and the Grange. There are a few sporadic Yaupon in the Dune zones behind the beaches. Yaupon prefers areas near marsh frontage. Also some old Yaupon around Stafford and Stafford Cemetery.
Yaupon grows on both the southern and northern ends of Jekyll, and in certain spots of Woodbine, GA.
Our Yaupon grove grows in the shade of dozens of large mature southern live oaks (Quercus virginiana), and the site is surrounded by brackish marshlands which were once cotton plantations, now replanted with cypress as a wetlands mitigation bank. Many of the Yaupon have grown upwards of thirty feet high, with trunks up to ten inches in diameter. Some of the older plants in shade have rather large leaves, which get much darker than plants growing
in full sun and sandier locations. The population also contains dwarf varities. The leaf litter from the live oaks provides natural fertilizer and contributes to the dark rich topsoil on top of the sands and clays. Our Yaupon grove has never had artificial fertilizer, insecticides or herbicides sprayed on it in the last dozen years. Before we possessed this grove, it was used as a cattle farm, and before that it was the site of the slave's quarters for the Bedell Plantation in Woodbine. Indian arrowheads have been found on roads on site. The grove comprises about three acres, and contains thousands of Yaupon plants from the large mature plants to lawn of new seedlings and young plants which get regularly mowed. We leave islands of Yaupons to grow to maturity around the live oaks.