Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping

EDIS Update: Marketing Florida-Friendly Landscapes to Florida Homeowners

by Angela Colonna
August 20, 2019

Florida-Friendly Landscapes (FFL) is a program unique to the state that provides information to homeowners about installing sustainable landscapes that require less water, attracts wildlife and are better for the environment. Many residents ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: Edis, FFL, Florida Friendly, Home Landscapes, Marketing

“Nothing grows in Florida”

by William Lester
August 19, 2019

I’ve heard that statement so many times it’s become almost cliché. Cliché, but false. I mean, seriously, look out of a window. It doesn’t look like a desert to me. Plenty of greenery to behold! So, I guess what folks really mean is, ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping

For the love of bugs!

by Carol Wyatt-Evens
August 19, 2019

“It’s a buggy world” is a sentiment that definitely rings true here in the sunshine state. With a conservative estimate of over 12,000 species of insects in Florida, there seems to be six-legged critters everywhere you look. Have you ever ... READ MORE

Category: Conservation, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Lawn, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, Turf, Wildlife, Work & Life
Tags: Environment, Florida Friendly, Insect, Insects, Land Insects, Landscape, Landscape Insects, Nature, Pgm_Chemicals, Pollinator, Pollinators, Wildlife

These hitchhikers are members of the daisy family

by Les Harrison
August 15, 2019

July 25, 2019 One of the great mysteries of life, at least to homeowners attempting to have the perfect landscape, is how weeds suddenly appear in the most unexpected place, in other words there yard. Weeds, by definition, are plants which ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Lawn, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension,
Tags: Agriculture, Florida, General Information, Landscape, Lawn & Garden, Les Harrison, Master Gardener, Master Gardeners, Wakulla, Wakulla Agriculture, Wakulla County, Wakulla County Extension, Wakulla Extension, Wakulla News

Grow this native, salt-tolerant palm near the coast

by Paul Schumaker
August 13, 2019

By Ralph E. Mitchell Native plants that are ornamental, highly drought-tolerant and even salt-tolerant in the palm category are something all coastal landscapers are looking for. Enter the Florida thatch palm - a beautiful, slow-growing ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes
Tags: Florida Thatch Palm, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Microclimates, Salt Tolerant, Slow-growing

Aphids are the vampires of the plant world

by Les Harrison
August 13, 2019

July 18, 2019 Horror movies have, for over a century, featured a pantheon of destructive creatures rampaging through the world. Their characteristic have varied over the decades, but they always manage to return. In recent years zombies ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Lawn, Pests & Disease, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, UF/IFAS Research, UF/IFAS Teaching,
Tags: Agriculture, Aphids, Bugs, Garden, General Information, Home Landscapes, Insects, Landscape, Lawn, Lawn & Garden, Les Harrison, Master Gardener, Master Gardeners, Natural Wakulla, Wakulla, Wakulla Agriculture, Wakulla County, Wakulla County Extension, Wakulla Extension

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