ARBORETUMS: CROSBY’S QUAKING BOG

In Mississippi there is a quaking bog capable of hosting up to an impressive 60 plant species per meter in a landscape in between a terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem. It quakes when enough rain has fallen allowing the mat of vegetation floating on the watery surface to move. My aim in these photographs is to capture the densely interwoven textures in different seasons. Until the late 1800s these bogs stretched almost continuously from Louisiana to Florida of which about 3 percent remain today. Show here are Pitcher Plants (Jan 2021) and Fireworks of Spikerush (Nov 2021).