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Winter Pruning Maintenance: Tips for a Healthy Landscape

by Michael J. Masucci

February 8, 2024

The Importance of Winter Pruning: Welcome to the end months of winter, where the chill in the air signals not only a change in the weather but also a crucial time for winter maintenance in your landscape. One of the key practices for ensuring ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Lawn, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, Water
Tags: Aborist, BMPs, Crapemurder, Crapemyrtle, FFL, IFAS, ISA, Landscaping, Pruning, Winter

Leave The Leaves?

by Lara Milligan

January 31, 2024

Leaves are incredibly fascinating if you spend time taking a closer look, or perhaps feel, or even a smell! Leaves are made up of multiple layers of plant cells. Plant cells contain chloroplasts. Chloroplasts contain chlorophylls. Chlorophylls ... READ MORE

Category: Natural Resources
Tags: Fall, Leaves, Lmilligan, Stormwater, Water Quality, Winter

When the iron is hot, but the wind is cold

by Amanda Quintos

January 4, 2024

What do you think about during this time of year? Early winter may carry different associations for some: post-holiday fatigue or relief; another abrupt change in pace at home or at work; or that familiar determination to fulfill a New Year's ... READ MORE

Category: Home Landscapes, Home Management, Work & Life
Tags: Ask IFAS, Cold Protection And Chilling Damage, Department Of Family Youth And Community Sciences, Winter

New Episode form Naturally Florida, “Winter in the Sunshine State”

by Lara Milligan

January 26, 2023

People don’t often think of Florida when they think of winter, but a lot that happens in the natural world. There are birds migrating, leaves falling, animals finding mates, and much more! In this episode, we explore the exciting world ... READ MORE

Category: , Natural Resources
Tags: Naturally Florida Podcast, Winter

Rollercoaster Temperatures in NW Florida

by llw5479

December 21, 2022

Fall, winter and even early spring can be a rollercoaster ride of temperatures here in Northwest Florida. One week it dips to freezing for a short time and the next week it rises to spring-like temperatures. We need to hold on for this ride ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Lawn
Tags: Cold Injury, Cold Weather, Freezing Temperatures, Spring, Winter

Protect your ornamental plants from cold damage

by Vanessa Vassilaros

January 27, 2022

Very cold weather is expected to hit south Florida beginning this weekend. Freezing temperatures and wind chills in the 20s are possible for a large portion of southern Florida. What Could Happen to your Plants if Temperatures Drop Below ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Crops, Horticulture, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: 2022, Agriculture, Chill, Cold, Florida, Freeze, Horticulture, Nursery, Ornamental, Weather, Winter

Feeding Beef Females: Ensuring that no cow is left behind

by Jonael Bosques

September 17, 2021

Winter months can be tricky when it comes to feeding your pregnant or lactating beef cows in Florida. The changing day length, and weather patterns limit grazing options in farms that rely on summer perennial grasses. In Florida summer grasses ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Farm Management, Livestock, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Bahia, Beef, Body, Bosques, Bovine, Cattle, Condition, Cool, County, Cow, Crop, Crops, Decision, Extension, Farm, Farming, Fertilizer, Forage, Grass, Grasses, Grazing, Hardee, Heifer, Heifers, IFAS, Jonael, Lactating, Nutrients, Nutrition, Pasture, Perennial, PH, Pregnant, Ranch, Season, Soil, Summer, Supplement, Sustainability, Winter

Strawberry Season

by Wayne Hobbs

September 20, 2019

As we enter the fall in Northeast Florida, gardening becomes a bit more tolerable. Temperatures drop and many of our fall and winter vegetables get their opportunity to shine in the garden. One of these plants to think about getting into the ... READ MORE

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Tags: Clay County, Fall, Fruit, Garden, Master Gardener, Strawberry, Winter

Cold Confusion

by Wayne Hobbs

February 4, 2019

Coming from the Northeast, I used to understand how seasons and cold weather worked in the garden. In the fall it got colder, leaves dropped, and most of the plants just stopped growing and winter blooming was very rare. In fact, with warm ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes
Tags: Bloom, Cold, Damage, Early, Early Bloom, Florida Friendly, Frost, Spring, Winter

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