Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping
Spring Garden Festival & Plant Sale – April 4
March 6, 2020
Load up your wagon for the 12th annual Baker County Spring Garden Festival and enjoy a fun-filled day of shopping from local plant vendors, plus free kid’s activities, exhibits and more. Visitors can also receive Florida-Friendly landscaping ... READ MORE
Category: 4-H & Youth, Agriculture, Events, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Natural Resources, Work & LifeTags: Bees, Butterfly Plant, Classes And Events, Growing Fruits, Houseplants, Native Plants, Perennials, Vegetable Gardening, Vegetables
March Checklist
March 6, 2020
Citrus: Always remove graft freeze protection once threat of freeze is over. Fertilize program begins for lemon, orange, kumquat using citrus fertilizer. Follow fertilizer label for frequency (slow release is used less often). Check for citrus ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, LawnTags: March Checklist
Stormwater Pondscaping
March 5, 2020
Stormwater retention ponds play an important role in flood control, especially in Florida’s rainy season. Retention ponds maintain a permanent pool of water and are designed to store and slow stormwater runoff from nearby areas. With over ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, HorticultureTags: Plants, Ponds
Spring Time is Time for Shrub Renewal
February 26, 2020
Spring has sprung and it is time to get those older overgrown shrubs back in bounds. Landscape experts call this shrub renewal. Assuming they are healthy and just oversized, a handful of strategic pruning cuts can rejuvenate older shrubs ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, HorticultureTags: Newsletter, Pruning, Shrub Rejuvenation
2020 Master Gardener Volunteer Application for Columbia County
February 19, 2020
The UF/IFAS Extension Columbia County Master Gardener Volunteer program works with the horticulture extension agent to educate the citizens within our county about research-based practices to use in their gardens and landscapes. Educational ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Community Volunteers, Events, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Lawn, Natural Resources, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS ExtensionTags: Gardening, Horticulture, Master Gardener, Volunteer
Find Peace with the Weeds
February 18, 2020
A weed is only a weed if you call it a weed (note this does not apply to 'noxious weeds' which are federally and state regulated). That is very true for one of our most popular native weeds, Bidens alba. This plant goes by many nicknames ... READ MORE
Category: , Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Horticulture, Lawn, UF/IFAS ExtensionTags: Bidens Alba, Pollinator, Weed