Tag: Foliage

Colorful and Carefree: Growing Crotons in Your Central Florida Yard

by Anne Yasalonis
May 10, 2025

Are you looking for a low maintenance plant that adds color and beauty to your landscape with very little effort? Say hello to the overlooked beauty of the garden, the croton. Crotons (Codiaeum variegatum), are tropical evergreen shrubs ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes,
Tags: Anne Yasalonis, Ayasalonis, Central Florida, Croton, Crotons, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Florida-Friendly Plants, Foliage, Foliage Plants, Gardening, Polk County FL, Polkgardening, Polkmg, Tropical, Tropical Plants, UF-IFAS, UF/IFAS Polk County, Your Central Florida Yard Podcast

Silver in the garden – a sterling idea!

by Ralph Mitchell
April 17, 2025

Silvery white or gray plants are rare in the garden, but one that almost always comes to mind is the dusty miller. This silver-white leaves of this popular bedding plant are unlike any foliage or flowering plant available. Planted ... READ MORE

Category: Home Landscapes
Tags: Attractive Foliage, Dusty Miller, Foliage, Landscape Plants, Silver Queen

Gardening in the Panhandle LIVE! 2021

by Barbara L. Edmonds
March 5, 2021

by Julie McConnell | Jan 14, 2021 We are back with new topics and guest speakers for 2021! All sessions are Thursdays at noon CDT or 1:00 p.m. EDT. There are two ways to join the Gardening in the Panhandle LIVE! webinars: 1. Facebook ... READ MORE

Category: Home Landscapes
Tags: Disease, Educational Workshop, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Foliage, General Gardening, Herbs, Houseplants, Insects, Invasive Species, Lawns, Pruning, Trees, Turf, Weeds

Did You Know That Orange County Has The 3rd Largest Horticulture Industry In Florida?

by Liz Felter
August 18, 2020

An economic study done in 2015 by the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) Food and Resource Economics Dept. determined that the central Florida area producers, combined with landscape firms and retail ... READ MORE

Category: Agribusiness, Agriculture, Horticulture
Tags: Apopka, Boston Fern, Fern City, Ferns, Foliage, Horticulture Retail, Indoor Foliage Capital Of The World, Landscape Firms, Ocextension, Production Hortiuculture

2019 Foliage Trends and Color of the Year

by Karen Stauderman
July 30, 2019

Foliage Trends: Tiki Culture and Rainforest Tiki culture once again continues to inspire in flowers and foliage trends in 2019 as it did in 2018. This hot style celebrates Monstera – Philodendron leaves in fabric decor, and accessories. ... READ MORE

Category: Home Management, Horticulture, , Work & Life
Tags: 2019 Pantone Color, Foliage, Living Coral

TPIE 2019 Wrap Up

by Angela Colonna
January 28, 2019

The Florida Nursery Growers and Landscape Association hosted its annual Tropical Plant International Expo (TPIE) from January 16-18 in Ft. Lauderdale. Each year, the UF/IFAS Mid-Florida Research and Education Center (MREC) is just as excited ... READ MORE

Category: Horticulture, UF/IFAS Research
Tags: 2019, Exotoc, FNGLA, Foliage, Industry Show, Landscape, Nhf, Research, Scholarship, Tropical, Tropical Plant International Expo

Industry Spotlight: Central Florida Ferns

by Angela Colonna
June 12, 2018

From a new hops and grape-filled demonstration garden to an active social media and website, Central Florida Ferns is taking steps to understand its market and try new plant products. Established in 1990, Ray and Kathy Roberts started Central ... READ MORE

Category: Horticulture, UF/IFAS
Tags: Central Florida, Ferns, Florida Nursery, Foliage, Greenhouse, Local

Evergreens for Holiday Decorating

by tavandiver
December 16, 2014

Now that we’ve all been stuffed like a Thanksgiving turkey, it’s time to transition into the final and, arguably, most ornate holidays of the year. Right now you can hear your mantles and door frames crying out to be adorned. Your windows ... READ MORE

Category: Horticulture
Tags: Decorating, Evergreens, Foliage, Garden Design, General Gardening, Holiday, Houseplants, Magnolia, Ornamental Shrubs, Panhandle Gardening, Winter 2014

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