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The Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS) is a United States National Marine Sanctuary located 100 nautical miles (120 mi; 190 km) off of Galveston, Texas, in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. It contains the northernmost coral reefs in the United States.
Tubastraea coccinea was first documented in 1943 on Caribbean reefs in Curaçao and Puerto Rico. [3] T. coccinea is an invasive species that was documented to have spread as far north as the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary in 2004.
St. Crispin's Reef is a popular diving and snorkeling spot for expeditions from Port Douglas and Cairns. [8] Nicknamed "Flower garden", the reef is host to Sergeant majors, Sweet lips, reef sharks, feather stars and bumphead parrot fish. [3] [9]
Coral reef farming involves extracting a part of a coral colony or free-floating larvae from a reef, and growing them in a nursery until outplanting [5] would be successful. It is commonly referred to as the "gardening method" and has been compared to silviculture as a management practice that mimics natural ecosystems.
[2] [4] [5] Among them are expansive coral reefs, including some of the oldest Porites coral heads on earth, deep-water reefs, hydrothermal vent communities, and rare archeological resources. [1] It was established as Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary on April 29, 1986, [ 6 ] it is thought to be home to the greatest biodiversity of aquatic ...
The flowers were first grown in a nursery and then transferred on a buoyant mat platform called a Beemat. The Beemat has rows of planting holes and the plant’s roots protrude out the bottom ...
Tony Fajarillo’s show garden at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show is like the mythical phoenix, reborn from ashes into something beautiful. Burned logs stand like totem poles among an oasis of ...
Smooth flower coral is found in the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, the Bahamas and southern Florida, at depths down to about 60 metres (200 ft) though it is commonest between 5 and 30 metres (16 and 98 ft). It is found on both the back and the front edges of reefs and is sometimes overhung by larger corals.