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Florida Arbor Day 2024 – Tips for Tree Planting

by Tia Silvasy
January 22, 2024

Arbor Day was established to celebrate trees and their beneficial ecosystem services they provide for humans and our environment. Florida Arbor Day is on January 19, 2024, as cooler months are the best time to plant trees, although trees can ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Forests, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Arbor Day, Florida, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Silvasy, Tree Planting

Let’s Celebrate…National Arbor Day!

by Marguerite Beckford
April 28, 2023

I first fell in love with trees when I was 8 years old. The house we’d moved to had a huge Ficus benjamina tree with a 40-foot wide canopy in our backyard. It gave such deep shade that sitting underneath it on a hot afternoon, you would feel ... READ MORE

Category: Natural Resources
Tags: Arbor Day, Treejuvenation, Trees, Urban Forestry Extension

Free Trees: 2023 Arbor Day

by Alyssa Vinson
April 17, 2023

In celebration of Arbor Day and Earth Day, the City of Bradenton and Manatee County has once again partnered with Keep Manatee Beautiful and the Arbor Day Foundation to provide free trees to residents. City of Bradenton and Manatee County ... READ MORE

Category: Community Volunteers, Home Landscapes, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS
Tags: Arbor Day, Earth Day, Featured Hot Topic, Florida Friendly Landscape, Free Trees, Trees Are Good

Florida Arbor Day Celebration in Crestview this Friday

by llw5479
January 18, 2023

In celebration of Florida’s Arbor Day, free tree seedlings will be given away on Friday, January 20, 9 am to 1 pm or until trees are gone. This event will be held at the John McMahon Environmental Center located at 132 Butler Avenue in ... READ MORE

Category: Events, Forests
Tags: Arbor Day, Free Tree Seedlings, Planting Trees, Tree Give-a-way

Your January Landscape

by Julio Perez
December 31, 2022

It’s the start of the year, and you may be looking at the next project in your yard. If you are looking for a guide, UF/IFAS has an excellent publication called the North Florida Gardening Calendar. Let us walk through some of the suggestions ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Horticulture,
Tags: Arbor Day, Horticulture, January Landscaping, Putnam

Let’s Celebrate National Arbor Day 2022

by Eva Maria Pabon
April 26, 2022

This Friday, April 29, 2022, will be National Arbor Day, a holiday invented to recognize the importance of trees. It is most often observed by the planting of trees, either as a part of a group or as an individual homeowner. Here in Florida, ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Forests, Home Landscapes, Natural Resources, Wildlife
Tags: Arbor Day, Eva Pabon, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, UF/IFAS Extension

Florida-Friendly Landscaping™: Join us as we celebrate Water Conservation Month!

by Melissa West
April 8, 2022

Join us as we celebrate Water Conservation Month! By Doris Heitzmann, Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ Program Manager. April and May are typically the driest months of the year in Central Florida. Making this the perfect time to ... READ MORE

Category: Conservation, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension, Water
Tags: Arbor Day, Conservation, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Irrigation, Landscape, Microirrigation, Nine Principles, Pinellas County, Sprinkler, Water, Water Conservation Month

Arbor Day Program

by Barbara L. Edmonds
March 14, 2022

Joseph MacKenzie, Levy County Forester and Barbara L. Edmonds, Horticulture PA, UF/IFAS Extension Levy County collaborated with Jennifer Bray, Assistant Principal, Bronson Middle-High School during an Arbor Day 2022 program. Addressing faculty ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, Events, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Natural Resources
Tags: Arbor Day, Bronson Middle High School

Treejuvenation Florida

by Marguerite Beckford
February 16, 2022

Treejuvenation Florida is a UF/IFAS Extension Sarasota County urban forestry program that aims to increase community engagement in activities which promote the benefits of trees, and help residents to recognize and appreciate their tree ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Natural Resources, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Arbor, Arbor Day, Pgm_HortComm, Tree, Treejuvenation, Urban Forestry, Urban Forestry Extension

Let’s go on a TreeQuest!

by Marguerite Beckford
January 11, 2022

Each year, on the third Friday in January, Sarasota County's UF/IFAS Extension & Sustainability Dept. celebrates Florida’s State Arbor Day. Since 2018, the County's urban forestry Extension program Treejuvenation Florida, has marked the ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Forests, Horticulture, Natural Resources, SFYL Hot Topic, UF/IFAS Extension, Work & Life
Tags: Arbor Day, Community, Pgm_HortComm, Tree Quest, Treejuvenation, TreeQuest, Trees, Urban Forestry

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