Images of America: Lake Wales Cuff Many of these plants can

Many of these plants can be grown at home in the backyard

Modeled after the traditional gemstone cut

fact-filled The Big Book of Blooms

and play games with plants

turtles and other plants and animals into a unique piece of art

Images of America: Lake Wales Cuff Many of these plants canLake Wales, "Crown Jewel of the Scenic Highlands," is nestled among rolling hills and sparkling lakes in the geographic center of Florida. Before the 1900s, this area of the Lake Wales Ridge was considered spectacularly beautiful but uninhabitable because the virgin forests did not have road or railroad access. Only Native Americans and a few white hunters had camped there. G. V. Tillman explored the untamed area in 1902 and fell in love with the