Category: Home Landscapes
Help Momma make her nest!
July 21, 2008
Have ever wonder what is eating my leaves by cutting circular holes along the leaf edges of the rose bush leaves, the citrus leaves and countless other leaves. It could be a Leafcutting Bee and you are helping a Momma Bee make her nest. According ... READ MORE
Category: Pests & DiseaseTags: Insects
Palm Diseases Fact Sheet
July 16, 2008
Here is a great fact sheet about the new palm diseases that you can use for a reference or to send/give to your clientele (click on link below). http://pinellas.ifas.ufl.edu/blog_commercial_connection/ deadly%20new%20palm%20diseases.pdf According ... READ MORE
Category: Home Landscapes, Pests & DiseaseTags: Palms
Want a flower to make you happy?
July 15, 2008
By Pam Brown, Urban Horticulture Extension Agent Try planting some Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) seeds or better yet, buy some plants for instant effect. These plants form a clumping, two-foot-tall mound of foliage topped with large, ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home LandscapesTags: Flowers
Are your plants looking a little brown?
July 15, 2008
May 31, 2011: This article has been updated with the current links. Brown leaves are a common problem towards the end of our long, dry, windy winters due to dry soil and lack of watering. But there are other possible causes, but fortunately ... READ MORE
Category: Pests & DiseaseTags: Abiotic Stress, Plant Problems
Don’t throw out your trash bugs
July 15, 2008
Brown and Green lacewings, are beneficial insects that attack and feed on pests such as aphids, mealybugs, scale insects, whiteflies, and other soft-bodies insects. Because of this, they are important in biological control. Some green lacewing ... READ MORE
Category: Home LandscapesTags: Beneficial, Insects
Licuala Palm and Iron Deficiency
July 14, 2008
Licuala Palm, Licuala grandis according to Betrock's Guide to Landscape Palms is a wet rainforest understory plant and requires part shade for best appearance and protected from drying or salty winds. A well drained soil with a wood mulch ... READ MORE
Category: Home LandscapesTags: Fertilizer, Nutritional Deficiencies, Palms
Geiger Tree Damage 101
July 11, 2008
Links have been updated in this article from 2008. The Geiger trees are blooming and the insects are with us. Several times a year an insect comes along and feeds on the Orange Geiger Tree, Cordia sebestena. Not much seems to bother the ... READ MORE
Category: Pests & DiseaseTags: Insects, Tree
Identify your Palm Problems
July 11, 2008
A Key to Common Landscape Palm Disorders and Diseases in the Continental United States is available at the University of Florida Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center website. Follow the link to find out how to read your palm's problems. To ... READ MORE
Category: Pests & DiseaseTags: Diseases, Nutritional Deficiencies, Palms
Yellow palm fronds: Is it lethal yellowing?
July 9, 2008
Are the fronds on your palms turning yellow? There is a difference between lethal yellowing & nutritional deficiencies. Lethal Yellowing (LY) is caused by a mycoplasma organism that is spread by an insect, a plant hopper, Myndus crudus. LY ... READ MORE
Category: Pests & DiseaseTags: Fertilizer, Palms