We often hear that spring is the best time to plant trees. Even Arbor Day, the day dedicated to planting trees, is in the spring. While there is no “bad” time to plant a tree, fall is a perfect time to put a tree in the ground. By ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, UF/IFAS Extension
A few weeks ago, I visited the home of my Master Gardener friend, Ginger. She has a bright, colorful yard with lots of plants and is a very knowledgeable backyard birder. There were several different types of bird feeders and multiple kinds ... READ MORE
Category: , Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Wildlife
A yard review is your first step in maintaining all the things that attracted you to Florida in the first place. While gardens are a source of comfort and inspiration to many, they can also be a stressful, confusing, expensive place if you ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, UF/IFAS Extension
Weeds are an ever-present frustration for many home gardeners. But if we think about it, they are amazing in many ways. They grow easily in all types of soil; they are not picky about sun;they are able to tolerate both dry and wet spells ... READ MORE
Category: Home Landscapes
Over the last couple days, parts of Jacksonville experienced urban flooding that had people in my neighborhood of Springfield moving their cars blocks away to higher ground. Drivers had to find alternate routes home as streets became impassable. ... READ MORE
Category: Disaster Preparation, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Lawn, UF/IFAS Extension, Water
New to Florida and lamenting the low maintenance lush green lawn you left behind? HOA breathing down your neck to fix your problem areas? You're not alone. Growing grass in Florida is not like growing grass in many other parts of the ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Lawn
Milkweed: we all know it as the poster plant for pollinator gardens, but did you know it feeds many other insects beyond the beloved monarch butterfly? (more…) READ MORE
Category: Conservation, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, UF/IFAS Extension, Wildlife
Woah! Who turned up the heat? It seems with temperatures consistently reaching into the upper 90’s, that summer started early and intends to be l-o-n-g! This doesn’t mean we can’t keep gardening, but it does mean that we need to take extra ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture
So you’ve researched for weeks, and even consulted the Florida-Friendly Landscaping Plant Guide to figure out which plants should do best in your garden based on how much sun and water they’ll get. Now you’re at the nursery faced with ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, UF/IFAS Extension
This time of year is made less glorious by all the plant problems that are rearing their ugliness and keeping us away from the fun stuff like planting new beds, redesigning old ones and just generally spending as much time as possible in the ... READ MORE
Category: Home Landscapes, Horticulture