Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping

Professional lawn care worker mowing a healthy green residential lawn, with a landscaping service truck and maintained shrubs in the background

How to Choose the Right Green Industry Professional for Your Lawn and Landscape

by margaretstewart
August 24, 2026

Your lawn and landscape are an investment. A healthy yard can increase your home's value, save water, and make your property more enjoyable. But choosing the right company is important. The lowest price is not always the best value. A trained ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Home Management, Lawn, Turf, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Choosing A Lawn Care Company, Environmental Protection, FDACS, Fertilization, Fertilizer Certification, Florida Homeowners, Florida Landscaping, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Florida-Friendly Landscaping Program, FNGLA, Gardening In The Panhandle, GI-BMP, Green Industries Best Management Practices, Hiring A Landscaper, Home Landscaping, Integrated Pest Management, IPM, Irrigation, ISA Certified Arborist, Landscape Design, Landscape Maintenance, Landscape Professionals, Lawn Care, Lawn Care Professionals, Pest Management, Pesticide Licensing, Pesticide Safety, Plant Health, Professional Lawn Care, UF/IFAS Extension, Water Conservation, Weed Control
Orange flowers with a butterfly pollinating them. Photo taken 09-12-25

New UF/IFAS App takes guesswork out of choosing the right plants, supporting pollinators and saving water for Floridians

by Jamie Groh
August 18, 2026

The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ Program (FFL) has launched the FFL Plants & Pollinators App, a comprehensive new resource that brings together plant selection, ... READ MORE

Category: Blog Community, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, UF/IFAS
Tags: Bee Gardens, Butterfly Gardens, Environmental Stewardship, Extension Education, Featured, FFL, FFL Plants & Pollinators App, Florida Ecosystems, Florida Friendly Landscape, Florida Gardening, Florida Native Plants, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Gardening App, Invasive Plants, Landscape Design, News, Plant Selection, Pollinator Gardening, Pollinator Habitat, Sustainable Landscaping, UF-IFAS, Water Conservation, Wildlife Gardening
Green timber bamboo

Growing Giant Timber Bamboo in the Home Landscape

by Tia Saracino
August 17, 2026

Giant Timber Bamboo Giant timber bamboo, or Oldham’s bamboo (Bambusa oldhamii), has the large green culms (stems) to 3 – 5”. Bamboo is in the grass family and this one is an impressive giant clumping bamboo species growing up to 65’ ... READ MORE

Category: , Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Bamboo, Bambusa, Central Florida, Edible Shoots, Home Landscapes, Subtropical

What do Elephants have to do with Bee Fences?

by Maria Quirico
August 11, 2026

MGV Giles Paget-Wilkes, self-described multi-national citizen and lead of the Discovery Gardens apiary, gave a fascinating talk on the development of Bee Fences on Mount Elgon in Kenya.       Map of Mount Elgon; Speaker MGV Giles Paget-Wilkes. Mount ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Conservation, Crops, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Forests, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Invasive Species, Natural Resources, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, Wildlife
Tags: African Bees, Bee Fences, Elephants, Human-Elephant Conflict, Kenya, Mount Elgon
Primer plano de una mariposa monarca con las alas parcialmente extendidas sobre flores amarillas, junto a una abeja de cuerpo negro y alas transparentes que se acerca a otra flor. El fondo es azul y desenfocado, lo que resalta a los dos polinizadores y las flores.

UF/IFAS invita a los residentes de Florida de todas las edades a participar en el Gran Censo de Polinizadores del Sureste del 21 al 22 de agosto

by Luz Bahder
August 11, 2026

Creado por Lourdes Mederos, gerente de relaciones públicas en español para el Departamento de Comunicaciones de UF/IFAS. ¿Qué pasaría si proteger a los polinizadores fuera tan fácil como pasar 15 minutos observando un jardín de flores? Del ... READ MORE

Category: Blog Community, Conservation, Events, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, UF/IFAS
Tags: Censo De Polinizadores, Español, Gran Censo De Polinizadores Del Sureste, Spanish

Building Soil, Suppressing Weeds, and Supporting Pollinators at The Nassau County Demonstration Garden

by David Hébert
August 10, 2026

Healthy soil is the foundation of successful gardening and farming. At the UF/IFAS Extension Nassau County office in Callahan, a demonstration garden has spent the last four years showing how cover crops, compost, mulch, and pollinator-friendly ... READ MORE

Category: 4-H & Youth, Clubs & Volunteers, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Pests & Disease
Tags: Cover Crops, Soil
large oak trees with Spanish moss hanging in the canopy.

Tree Bark: A Landscape Showstopper- A New Episode of Your Central Florida Yard Podcast

by Anne Yasalonis
August 10, 2026

Tree Bark: A Landscape Showstopper Join us in this episode as we take a closer look at trees with interesting bark. Whether you’re designing a landscape or just love trees, you’ll come away seeing bark in a whole new way! Your Central ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes,
Tags: Anne Yasalonis, Ayasalonis, Central Florida, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Florida-Friendly Plants, Jschelb, Master Gardener Volunteer, Polk County, Polkgardening, Polkmg, Trees, UF-IFAS, UF/IFAS Polk County, Weeds, Your Central Florida Yard Podcast

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