Changing up your plant palette selection is a good way to explore new plants and spruce up your landscape. One candidate that might appeal to you is called the baby sun rose. How can you resist a plant with a name like that? Low-growing, ... READ MORE
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Amongst the many good summer flowering bedding plants that take the heat and bloom all summer is the Portulaca genus that includes both the familiar purslane and another species commonly known as moss rose. I was familiar with moss rose ... READ MORE
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I do not know if you have noticed, but the flowering trees known as royal poinciana or flamboyant are in full bloom across the landscape. If you were able to fly a drone with a camera over residential Charlotte County the royal poinciana ... READ MORE
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Some plants are known to be easy-to-grow and are popular everywhere. One such plant – Zamioculcas zamiifolia or ZZ plant for short - is one of those plants that have stolen the hearts of plant hobbyists across the board. Beautifully ... READ MORE
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While junipers can be a nice feature in the landscape, many that would be commonly used up north just do not do well in our Southwest Florida climate in regard to pest and environment pressures. The native juniper, the red cedar is a ... READ MORE
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To many people a good ant is a dead ant. We do have our share of pest ants in Florida – not to mention fire ants! But, just like many things in life, there are exceptions and there is a good ant to praise. This ant is the pyramid ... READ MORE
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Nothing looks as nice displayed from the front of your house or off a porch than a hanging basket. A hanging basket offers a different planting dimension that can add color and texture to an area not normally landscaped. The containers ... READ MORE
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The “summer snapdragon”, better known as Angelonia, is a great warm-season flower that grows from one to three feet tall and produces three-quarters to almost one-inch wide white, blue, white, lavender, purple, and pink flowers arranged ... READ MORE
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The Canary Island Date palm is a huge and impressive plant found in many neighborhoods where it can reach heights up to sixty feet tall with fifteen-foot fronds. Sometimes referred to locally as the "pineapple palm", will this palm fit into ... READ MORE
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Over fifty years ago, I received a small mail-order Over fifty years ago, I received a small mail-order bougainvillea plant and grew it in on a windowsill indoors up north. I actually got it to bloom, and it brought color and tropical ... READ MORE
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