Building a Dry Garden Bed

Ask Master Gardener Volunteer Michele Hackmeyer In a previous blog, I described plants to consider using in a dry garden bed. Now I will describe what it takes to create the bed. Doing something… Read More
by Pat Williams
Posted: September 2, 2020
Ask Master Gardener Volunteer Michele Hackmeyer In a previous blog, I described plants to consider using in a dry garden bed. Now I will describe what it takes to create the bed. Doing something… Read More
Category: Agriculture, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Lawn, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, Uncategorized
Tags: agriculture, Environment, environmentally friendly, Florida, Florida Panhandle, Garden, Gardening in the Panhandle, General Information, growing, Horticulture, Landscape, Living Well In The Panhandle, Master Gardener, Master Gardeners, panhandle, Panhandle Agriculture, Panhandle Gardening, Panhandle Outdoors, panhandle-livingwell, plants, wakulla, Wakulla agriculture, Wakulla County, Wakulla County Extension, Wakulla Extension
by BLOGS.IFAS2
Posted: March 18, 2017
Water meal, the world’s smallest flowering plant. Photo by Vic Ramey, University of Florida/IFAS Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants. Used with permission. Some of the world’s smallest flowering plants grow in aquatic environments. And… Read More
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes
Tags: Character, Miniature, Panhandle Outdoors, plants, Sizeable
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Posted: February 18, 2017
One of the great barriers to progress in most policy discussions is an “Us” vs. “Them” battle based on historic generalizations and unawareness of change and current practices of the two “sides”. The bad news… Read More
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Posted: October 14, 2016
I grew up in the Georgia Piedmont outside Athens, a land of bright red sticky clay, rocks and cold weather. In addition to the ubiquitous Georgia pines, hardwoods including white oaks, hickory and beech grow… Read More
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Posted: February 25, 2016
Florida ranchers know Tropical Soda Apple (TSA) as the “Plant from Hell”. It was first noticed in south Florida, but its seeds survive in the digestive tract of animals and it spread north through the… Read More
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Posted: January 25, 2016
It’s a calm clear weekday in January. There’s a single buzzard soaring above, two squirrels scurrying in the trees and a pileated woodpecker calling in the distance. It’s hard to imagine this site was the… Read More
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Posted: July 10, 2015
Vampires of all types and genetic modifications are hot topics these days, and a common, but uncommon looking and acting Florida weed may have combined the two subjects. Dodder, a native invasive, parasitic plant, reproduces… Read More
Category: Natural Resources
Tags: Dodder, Environmental Education, invasive, Invasive Species, Land Management, Master Gardener, Panhandle Outdoors, parasite, plants
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Posted: March 6, 2015
Honey bees are quite the buzz these days. Reports of population declines and the importance of their role in pollination have caught the country’s attention. The Northwest District IFAS Beekeepers’ classes have grown by leaps… Read More
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Posted: September 12, 2014
I started a little vermiculture bin year before last with one cup of red wigglers from the local bait shop. I carefully sorted my garbage so there was no grease or animal protein in the… Read More
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Posted: June 6, 2014
Digital devices have proliferated like kudzu in July, and new user applications for these devices are as common as armadillos. Untold hours and dollars are being spent by couch potatoes to defend artificial worlds from… Read More
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