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Anne Yasalonis
Anne is the Residential Horticulture Agent and Master Gardener Volunteer Coordinator at UF/IFAS Extension Polk County. She offers education to residents on landscaping and gardening in central Florida. Contact Anne at anneanne@ufl.edu or follow along on social media @PolkGardening.
Posts by Anne Yasalonis:
- Central Florida Gardening and Landscaping Fact Sheets
- Part-Time Gardening: Tips for Newcomers, Seasonal Residents, and Snowbirds: A New Episode of Your Central Florida Yard Podcast
- Crape Murder...A Haunting Tale: A New Episode of Your Central Florida Yard Podcast
- Polk County Master Gardener Volunteers Earn Three Awards of Excellence at State Conference
- Growing Vegetables and Herbs in Containers: A New Episode of Your Central Florida Yard Podcast
- Crafting Spooky Season Planters: A BONUS Episode of Your Central Florida Yard Podcast
- Spooky Season Planters: Transforming Planters into Hauntingly Beautiful Holiday Decor
- Atala Butterflies and Coontie Cycads: Signs of Damage and How to Protect the Butterflies
- Create a Wattle in Your Yard
- Starting a Vegetable Garden in Central Florida: A New Episode of Your Central Florida Yard Podcast
- Weeds in the Home Landscape: A New Episode of Your Central Florida Yard Podcast
- A Tropical Yard in Central Florida: A New Episode of Your Central Florida Yard Podcast
- Support Florida's Pollinators All Year Long
- Hurricane Prep for the Landscape: A new episode of Your Central Florida Yard podcast
- Water woes and your landscape: A new episode of Your Central Florida Yard podcast
- Tips on hand watering
- When Grass Won't Grow, a new episode from Your Central Florida Yard podcast
- Fertilizing Palms, a new episode from Your Central Florida Yard podcast
- Creating a Native Wildflower Garden in Your Central Florida Yard, a new episode from Your Central Florida Yard podcast
- Organic mulches in the Florida-Friendly Landscape: How do I know which ones to use?
- It’s not fall, but the fall armyworm is here
- Spanish Moss, a new episode from Your Central Florida Yard podcast
- Lichen: A New Episode from Your Central Florida Yard
- Welcome to Your Central Florida Yard, a new podcast from UF/IFAS Extension Polk County
- Proper Planting: Trees and Shrubs
- Proper Planting: Annuals and Perennials
- Late summer in your Florida-Friendly landscape: A few quick tips
- Greenhouse Guide for Educators
- Quick Tips on Hand-Weeding in Your Florida-Friendly Yard
- Residents Guide to the Polk County Fertilizer Ordinance
- Growing Native: How to Create a Beautiful Garden in a Container!
- Happy Birthday! The Master Gardener Volunteer Program Turns 50!
- Florida-Friendly Landscaping Series: Five Ways to Know You are a FFL Follower!
- Florida-Friendly Landscaping Series: Five Steps to Become a Florida-Friendly Landscaper
- Florida-Friendly Landscaping Series: Take some action in five simple steps!
- Florida-Friendly Landscaping Series: What's that word? Five Florida-Friendly Landscaping terms to know
- Florida-Friendly Landscaping Series: Five facts to know to help you grow!
- A Winter Wildlife Garden
- "Ground" Yourself By Planting Florida Native Plants
- "Something to Talk About”—Seminole Pumpkins!
- A Note on Your Irrigation System Post-Hurricane
- Pollinator Plants that Survived Hurricane Ian
- You Could Be Flushing Money Down the Toilet
- Build Your Own Rain Barrel
- Save a monarch, plant a (native) milkweed!
- Overwatering Can Be as Problematic as Underwatering
- Master Gardener Volunteer's Favorite Plants: Pentas
- Coreopsis: A Summer Wildflower Favorite
- Giant African Land Snails: What You Need to Know
- Water Conservation in Polk County
- Lawncare 101 for Central Florida Lawns
- March 22 is World Water Day
- Composting for Beginners
- Florida-Friendly Landscape Recognition
- UF/IFAS Extension Polk County Master Gardener Volunteer Projects Earn International Recognition
- The Importance of Planning in the Garden
- Herbs: A Series of Helpful Fact Sheets
- Fallen Oak Leaves Make a Great Mulch
- What does frost and freeze damage look like?
- Florida Friendly Demonstration Garden at UF/IFAS Extension Polk County
- Spring Plant Sale
- Planning your Spring Vegetable Garden
- Bees and Wasps: What to know and when to be concerned
- Garden Guide and Journal Available for Sale
- Suspicious Seed Packets New Updates From FDACS
- Growing Happy Houseplants
- Do you need tree work? Find a certified arborist.
- Vegetable Gardening Link Round-Up from UF/IFAS Extension
- Mosquitoes in and around your home
- Build your own pollinator hotel
- Earth Day Round-Up: What to do, attend, and learn!
- Let the worms do the work! Build your own worm farm for composting
- Resources from UF/IFAS for teachers, parents, and kids
- Gardening tasks during a time of social distancing
- Happy Birthday to...Florida!
- Alternatives to the Normal Valentine's Day Bouquet
- Spring Cleaning in the Florida-Friendly Landscape
- Muhly grass is a showstopper this time of year
- Should I be worried about the puss caterpillar?
- Disinfecting your garden tools
- Micro-Irrigation: A Water Saving Alternative
- Preparing Your Landscape for Hurricane Season
- Vegetable Garden Prep: Step-by-step videos to help you get started
- 2019 UF/IFAS Extension Florida Master Gardener Training in Polk County
- How to Video: Seasonal Pruning of Roses
- How To Video: Cut and Deadhead Roses
- A must do in gardening: Vegetable crop rotation
- Request a speaker for your adult or youth group
- Save Your Lawn and Your Water Bill with These Easy Steps
- How To Harvest a Luffa Gourd
- Fall Color in the Florida Landscape
- Basketgrass, A Common Landscape Weed
- More Garden Hacks to Beat the Heat in Your Central Florida Yard
- Gardening Hacks to Make Outdoor Chores a Little Easier
- Managing Your Lawn During the Summer: 5 Steps to a Healthy Lawn
- Planting a Cutting Garden
- UF/IFAS Extension Polk County Events for May-August 2018
- What is a Master Gardener?
- Spring Vegetable Gardening for Central Florida
- Spring into Florida-Friendly Landscaping™
- Spring into Florida-Friendly Landscaping™
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: How to practice environmental sustainability every day
- Protecting your landscape plants from freezing temperatures
- Succulents
- Hurricane Recovery Round-Up
- Trees and Hurricanes
- Are you a Purposeful Pollinator?
- Fact Sheet: Creating Succulent Dish Garden
- New Home, New Landscape
- Ten Tips for Saving Water
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