Are you looking to hire a landscaper? Knowing what to look for will help you get the most for your money. Many homeowners or homeowner associations evaluate their landscape professional on price alone. We know how to compare prices, however, ... READ MORE
Category: , Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, Turf
Growers often want to recoup some of the cost of a new planting of Southern Highbush Blueberry (SHB) by harvesting the fruit from the newly-planted bushes rather than stripping it off, a practice commonly recommended to allow the plants to become ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Horticulture
Its happening in my neighborhood now. The guys that were repairing radiators or odd-job types are driving around in unmarked, homemade box trucks and and offer to hurricane whack your shade trees (cash only) before hurricane season. Do NOT ... READ MORE
Category: Home Landscapes, Horticulture,
If palms are pruned before identifying the cause of decline, sometimes the symptoms are removed that indicate a nutritional or disease problem. In the case of this recently pruned pygmy date palm, a few leaves with a disease called Pestalotiopsis ... READ MORE
Category: Agriculture, Horticulture, Pests & Disease
Now that it is officially hurricane season perhaps it is time to be thinking about the trees around our homes. There is no “risk free “tree however; there are strategies that we can undertake that can create a more wind resistant tree canopy. ... READ MORE
Category: Disaster Preparation, Home Landscapes
Hurricane Season begins June 1st and many are still putting the pieces back together from Irma. So what does landscape hurricane preparedness mean? Address the Hazards Hurricane Irma created a lot of damage to our mature tree canopy and ... READ MORE
Category: , Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture
Are You Spreading Problems in the Landscape? Factsheet (PDF) Pruning equipment can spread disease in the landscape if not properly cleaned and disinfected. By disinfecting gardening tools on a regular basis, you can help prevent the spread ... READ MORE
Category: , Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, Pests & Diseaseby Les Harrison “If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing,” so said English essayist Thomas Penson De Quincey. This early 19th century writer and social commentator published extensively on ... READ MORE
Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Lawn, UF/IFAS, UF/IFAS Extension