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Drought Tolerance: The Amazing Plant Adaptations

by Taylor Clem, PhD
June 26, 2024

Here comes the drought stress... June first marks the beginning of Florida’s rainy season – although, it has not been that rainy lately. In fact, we've already received a couple of burn ban notifications from the Florida Forest Service. ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Beautiful, Demonstration Garden, Drought, Drought Tolerance, Drought Tolerant, Florida Friendly, Florida-Friendly Landscapes, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Flowers, Landscapes, Right Plant Right Place, Water Efficiently
Rows of plants in nursery pots

How to Pick the Best Plants

by Stephanie Means
May 22, 2024

So you’ve researched for weeks, and even consulted the Florida-Friendly Landscaping Plant Guide to figure out which plants should do best in your garden based on how much sun and water they’ll get.  Now you’re at the nursery faced with ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Duval, Florida Friendly, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Growing Plants, Landscaping, Master Gardeners, Plants, Right Plant Right Place, Selecting Plants
AI generated rose garden.

Slow Gardening: The License to Loafe

by Taylor Clem, PhD
March 8, 2024

Slow down, you move too fast Do you ever feel like you are moving too fast, and you have a thousand things on your “to-do list?” It can be exhausting. We need to slow down a little bit. A recent statewide needs assessment with the University ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, Lawn, Natural Resources, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Fertilizer Responsibly, FFL Principles, FFL Program, Florida Friendly, IPM, Manage Yard Pests, Right Plant Right Place, Water Efficiently

The Silk Floss Tree

by Hannah Eason (formerly Wooten)
August 16, 2022

The Silk Floss Tree commands attention in every season. From a stunning floral display, to the trunk laden with menacing spines, to the palmate foliage, it is no wonder this rainforest tree has found a place in managed landscapes around ... READ MORE

Category: Agriculture, , Crops, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Home Management, Horticulture, Pests & Disease, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Best Practices, BMP, BMPs, Cflandscapes, Cool Tree, Ethonobotany, Extension, FFL, Florida, Florida Tree, Flowering, Flowering Tree, Gardening Solutions, Hwooten, Interesting Plant, Landscape, Landscaping, Life Jacket, Orange County, Orange County Extension, Pink Flowers, Pollinator Plant, Rainforest, Right Place, Right Plant Right Place, Right Plnat, Spike, Spikey Trunk, Tree, Trees, Tropical, Tropical Tree, Useful, Useful Plant

Purple rain, purple rain. All hail the Queen’s Wreath!

by Hannah Eason (formerly Wooten)
March 28, 2022

The Queen is dripping. The waterfall of purple flowers cascading over trellises and featured in spring selfies is known as Queen’s Wreath. This tropical vine commands attention. Wrapping and twining up a supporting structure, these sandpapery ... READ MORE

Category: , Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Home Management, Horticulture, Lawn, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Central Florida Gardening, Cflandscapes, Color, FFL, Florida Friendly, Flower, Flowers, Hwooten, Landscape, Landscapes, Petrea, Pollinator, Pollinators, Pretty, Purple, Purple Flowers, Queen’s Wreath, Right Plant Right Place, Sandpaper Vine, Spring, Spring Flowers, Tolerant Plant, Tropical, Tropical Plant, Vine, Vines

Choosing the Right Plant for the Right Place

by Lisa Sanderson
January 30, 2019

Flatwoods Plum from the UF/IFAS Demo Garden Sumter County-photo by L. Sanderson If you have visited the UF/IFAS Extension Sumter County office in Bushnell, you have perhaps meandered through the demonstration garden just outside our front ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes, Horticulture, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Demonstration Garden, Eastern Sun, Florida Master Gardeners, Florida Yards And Neighborhoods, Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Repetition In Landscapes, Right Plant Right Place, Southwest Sun, Sumter County Master Gardener, Trees

Landscape Design Series: Right Plant, Right Place

by Ralph Mitchell
January 9, 2019

This is the fourth post in the Landscape Design Series “Don’t Panic” has been our reoccurring mantra with the landscape design series. Now that we have discussed some of the basics of landscape design, our confidence should have grown ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes
Tags: Conservation, Design, Designer, Elements, Elements Of Design, Environment, Environmental Design, FFL, Florida Friendly, Florida-Friendly Landscapes, Landscape, Landscape Design, Landscape Design TC, LandscapeDesignSeries, Plant Material, Plant Selection, Plants, Right Place, Right Plant, Right Plant Right Place

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