Floracliff Nature Sanctuary and Holland Oak Trees

I attended the Kentucky Native Plant Society had their fall meeting at Floracliff Nature Sanctuary (Elk Creek Falls) south of Lexington, KY on the Kentucky River ... the palisades area.  There were hikes with plant identification and a program in the evening ... the final lecture was about Dr. Mary Wharton (former professor at Georgetown College and the founder of Floracliff).  Her connection to E. Lucy Braun and her path to teaching a Georgetown were interesting.

http://www.floracliff.org/
http://www.knps.org/

Floracliff has the oldest documented tree in Kentucky ... a chinkapin oak (Quercus muehlenbergii)... 402 years old from a core taken a couple of years ago.  It was not really that large of a tree on a south slope ... pictured below about 40 feet below the two people standing in the center of the picture

Below a picture from Elk creek.  I could not get a picture of Elk Creek Falls.

Today besides doing some school work, I collected some acorns from several large oak trees for my Holland Oak Trees project.  I plan to plant these is containers next Spring.