Tag: annuals

Summer Flowers in 15 minutes: An On-Demand Webinar Series

by Julie Schelb

July 2, 2021

Join UF/IFAS Extension Polk County experts for an on-demand series of four, 15-minute online educational workshops to help you plan a beautiful summer garden of flowering plants. Topics include summer flowering annuals, perennials, wildflowers, ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes
Tags: Annuals, Bulbs, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Florida-Friendly Plants, Flowers, Gardening, Perennials, Polkgardening, Summer Flowers, Wildflowers

Warm Season Annual Grass Options for Livestock

by Cassidy Dossin

April 20, 2020

Warm season perennial grasses lead forage production in Florida through the summer months; most producers rely on bahiagrass or bermudagrass to feed their livestock through the heat, but some producers utilize warm season annuals to give an ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Farm Management, Livestock
Tags: Annual, Annuals, Forage, Grasses, Livestock, Summer Forage, Warm Season

Fact Sheets: Annuals | Annual Flowers Bedding Plants | Gardening with Annuals in Florida | Lee County Extension | Stephen Brown

by Stephen Brown

January 25, 2018

Annuals Annual-Flowers-Bedding Plants Gardening with Annuals in Florida READ MORE

Category: Home Landscapes
Tags: Annuals, Fact Sheet, Factsheet, Lee County, Stephen Brown

Backyard Sugarcane in the Panhandle

November 20, 2017

Do you want to add a little something different to your landscape? How about something edible, as well as a focal point in your garden? Backyard sugarcane may be just what you are looking for. Sugarcane, genus Saccharum, is a tropical perennial ... READ MORE

Category: Horticulture
Tags: Annuals, Fall Gardening, Panhandle Gardening, Sugar Cane

Cilantro – Great for Cool Season Gardening

by Samantha Murray

November 13, 2017

Cilantro (Coriandrum sativum) is a short-lived annual herb with bright green, feathery, flat leaves that look very similar to flat-leaved parsley. Leaves can be harvested at will after they grow to a mature size and then continuously as ... READ MORE

Category: Horticulture
Tags: Annuals, Cilantro, Cool Season Gardening, Coriander, Edible Landscape, Fall Gardening, Herbs, Panhandle Gardening, Winter Gardening

Annual Bedding Plants This Time of Year?

February 10, 2017

Yes, even with cool weather setting in, much can be done on the flower gardening front. Let’s kickoff 2017 by being the envy of the neighborhood with flower beds that are rich and vibrant in color. Annual bedding plants are plentiful in ... READ MORE

Category: Horticulture
Tags: Annual, Annuals, Bedding, Flowers, Panhandle Gardening

The David W. Marshall IFAS Extension Office Demonstration Garden

by BLOGS.IFAS

November 6, 2015

Guest Article for the Tallahassee Democrat November 6, 2015 By: Lana Arnold “…that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” is the often quoted Shakespearean line. The “rose “ with a new name is ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Annuals, Grasses, Native Plants, October-December 2015, Orchards, Perennials, Roses, Shrubs, Trees, Tropical Plants, Vegetables Heerbs, Vines And Non-invasive Plants

Florida Wildflowers: Coreopsis

by Mary Salinas

September 24, 2015

In our demonstration garden we are enjoying the small but vibrant blooms of our state wildflower Coreopsis, also commonly known as tickseed. After many years of its use in the Florida highways beautification program, Coreopsis was adopted ... READ MORE

Category: Horticulture
Tags: Annuals, Bees, Butterflies, Butterfly Gardening, Coreopsis, Garden Design, General Gardening, Native Plants, Panhandle Gardening, Perennials, Pollinators, Tickseed, Wildflowers

Saving Seed

by Mary Salinas

September 9, 2015

You’ve grown some wonderful vegetables, annuals or perennials and you would like to save some of the seed from those plants to have for planting in the future. This is a great way to get more of the plants you know and love while saving on ... READ MORE

Category: Horticulture
Tags: Annuals, General Gardening, Panhandle Gardening, Perennials, Propagation, Seed, Seed Saving, Summer 2015, Vegetable Gardening, Vegetables, Wildflowers

Purple Hyacinth Bean – What’s Old is New

by Beth Bolles

May 6, 2015

Everyone is interested in growing an easy plant that offers interest all throughout the warm season. Look no further than an old favorite, the purple hyacinth bean, Lablab purpurea. An warm season annual vine that grows easily from seeds ... READ MORE

Category: Horticulture
Tags: Annual Vine, Annuals, Beans, Butterflies, Butterfly Gardening, Ornamental Vine, Panhandle Gardening, Poisonous Plants, Purple-flowered Vine, Vine, Vines

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