Tag: FFL

Suncoast Grown and Gathered: Cotton Candy Cherries, Year-Round Abundance on a Fast-Growing Tree

by Forest Hecker
October 30, 2026

At the Sarasota County UF/IFAS Extension Office, we've been cultivating a Food Forest to showcase the most productive, unique, and often underutilized fruits and crops suited to our distinctive southwest Florida climate. Through this ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes, Work & Life
Tags: FFL, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Food, Garden, Horticulture, Landscape, Landscaping, Pgm_HortRes

Landscape Succession: Managing Your Changing Lawn Over Time and Post Storm

by Joshua Criss
October 26, 2026

Landscape Succession: The Ever-Changing Florida Yard If you live in Florida, you’re no stranger to constant changes. Be it housing development, large storms, or just the passing of time, it’s likely the landscape you have now is not the ... READ MORE

Category: Home Landscapes
Tags: Agriculture, Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Extension, FFL, Florida Yards And Neighborhoods, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Franklin, FYN, Gadsden, Garden, Gardening, Gardening In The Panhandle, GI-BMP, Gulf, Holmes, Horticulture, Jackson, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Office, Okaloosa, Panhandle, Panhandle Gardening, Panhandle Horticulture, Santa Rosa, UF, UF-IFAS, Wakulla, Walton, Washington

Water Oaks Are The Worst

by Matt Lollar
October 23, 2026

Hurricane Isaias blew through the western panhandle on October 9, 2026. While we currently don't have a complete assessment of what tree species faired the best and worst from this storm, there are some preliminary observations that can be ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes
Tags: Agriculture, Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Extension, FFL, Florida Yards And Neighborhoods, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Franklin, FYN, Gadsden, Garden, Gardening, Gardening In The Panhandle, GI-BMP, Gulf, Holmes, Horticulture, Hurricane, Isaias, Ivan, Jackson, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Office, Okaloosa, Panhandle, Panhandle Gardening, Sally, Santa Rosa, UF, UF-IFAS, Wakulla, Walton, Washington

Suncoast Grown and Gathered: Summer’s Cute Mouse Melons

by Forest Hecker
October 15, 2026

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes
Tags: FFL, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Horticulture, Landscape, Landscaping, Pgm_HortRes

Suncoast Grown and Gathered: September Passionfruit

by Forest Hecker
October 15, 2026

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Fruits & Vegetables, Home Landscapes
Tags: FFL, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Horticulture, Landscape, Landscaping, Pgm_HortRes

Two Wildflowers: Tropical Sage and Butterfly Needles, Reclassified as Non-Native to Florida

by Forest Hecker
October 12, 2026

Two common and familiar wildflowers have gone the way of Blanketflower (Gaillardia pulchella) in recent weeks. The Atlas of Florida Plants as well as other sources like the Florida Wildflower Foundation now lists Tropical Sage (Salvia coccinea) ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, SFYL Hot Topic
Tags: FFL, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Garden, Horticulture, Landscape, Landscaping, Pgm_HortRes

Growing Better Communities: How HOAs Can Partner with UF/IFAS Extension

by Giuseppe Di Giacinto
October 8, 2026

A resource for HOA boards, property managers, and landscape professionals If you are part of an HOA board, you already know that managing a community is not always simple. There are budgets to consider, residents to satisfy, contractors ... READ MORE

Category: Clubs & Volunteers, Community Volunteers, Events, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Home Management, Horticulture, Lawn, Pests & Disease, Professional Development, Relationships & Family, Turf, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, Work & Life
Tags: Community, Condo, FFL, Hoas, Home, Landscape, Turf

Living Fences and Thorny Hedges in Florida

by Forest Hecker
October 6, 2026

Every hurricane season leaves the same debris along Suncoast streets: snapped wood pickets, cracked vinyl panels and leaning posts. Since Hurricane Ian in 2022, and again after Milton in 2024, many homeowners and HOA communities have paid to ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Work & Life
Tags: FFL, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Horticulture, Hurricane, Landscape, Landscaping, Pgm_HortRes, Sustainability

New Natives Take Root at Shamrock Park’s Demonstration Garden

by Forest Hecker
September 24, 2026

The Demonstration Garden at Shamrock Park and Nature Center in Venice has had a major makeover. Today September 24th, we planted 35 large trees and shrubs, 52 small shrubs, 215 native wildflowers and understory plants. We also spread ~690+ ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes
Tags: FFL, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Horticulture, Landscape, Landscaping, Nature, Pgm_HortRes

Grow with Confidence at the 20th Annual Master Gardener Plant Sale

by Ashley Ellis
September 14, 2026

Imagine your are about to buy a lovely little plant from a store and suddenly you wonder…is it healthy? Will it survive in my yard? Will I be able to take care of it? Most of us who love plants have experienced this. Coming up soon ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Extension, Wildlife, Work & Life
Tags: FFL, Master Gardener Volunteer, Pgm_HortRes, UF/IFAS Extension Sarasota County

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