wildflowers

• 
  Beach elder (Iva imbricata) has sparse, woody, upright stems and fleshy narrow bright green leaves. Small lavender flowers occur in late summer. Beach elder accumulates sand rapidly and produces low rounded dunes.
• 
  The Victorian house is in the process of being converted from an office into a residence. The design of the gingerbread coumn brackets is art nouveau, a style of decoration developed in France at the end of the 19th century characterized by flowing lines and curving organic shapes.
• 
  The seagrass meadows are some of the finest to be found anywhere in the world. Similar in appearance to the terrestrial habitats from which they take their name, these meadows are composed of an assortment of low-growing flowering plants that are uniquely adapted to life in a submarine environment.