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Ornery Plants for Your Garden

by Lisa Sanderson

May 19, 2023

Just recently, I received a great plant from a volunteer – a sharp and pointy agave, large but in its infancy. Despite its young age, it is still an ornery plant for the garden. This agave when planted in the landscape will grow to become ... READ MORE

Category: Home Landscapes, Horticulture, UF/IFAS Extension
Tags: Aloe, Container Plants, Drought Tolerant, Eryngium, Lisa Sanderson, Rattlesnake Master, Serrated Leaves, Sharp Spines On Leaves, UF/IFAS Extension Sumter County, Yucca

Fact sheet: Adam’s Needle

by kathywarner

May 20, 2017

Adam’s Needle is a slow growing native plant found scattered through the woods in the southeastern United States. Leaves appear as though they have been shaved because leaf margins bear curved, filamentous threads of leaf tissue. The leaf ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes
Tags: Adam's Needle, Demonstration Garden, Spanish Bayonet, Yucca, Yucca Filamentosa

Sunshine Plants for the Sunshine State

by BLOGS.IFAS

August 21, 2015

Guest Article for the Tallahassee Democrat August 21, 2015, Release for Tallahassee Democrat By Michael Barach Firebush. Photo by Michael Barach The chickens are laying hardboiled eggs. The cows are giving evaporated milk. Old Doc, who was ... READ MORE

Category: Florida-Friendly Landscaping, Home Landscapes
Tags: July-September 2015, Perennial Groundcover, Salvia, Yucca

Adam’s Needle and Spanish Bayonets

by BLOGS.IFAS

June 8, 2015

Les Harrison is the UF/IFAS Wakulla County Extension Director Those who have never visited Florida tend to imagine the entire state encompassed by sprawling, white sand beaches and palm trees. Though our state is famous for its coast, inland ... READ MORE

Category: Natural Resources
Tags: Adam's Needle, Environment, Florida, General Information, Growing, Landscape, Lawn & Garden, Les Harrison, Master Gardener, Natural Resources, Natural Wakulla, Plants, Spanish Bayonet, Trees, UF-IFAS, Wakulla, Wakulla Agriculture, Wakulla CED, Wakulla County, Wakulla County Extension, Wakulla Extension, Yucca

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