Amanda is the Florida-Friendly Landscaping Agent for the UF/IFAS Extension Service Marion County. She is proud to be serving the residents of her home county with their landscaping needs.

Posts by Amanda Marek:

• Attracting Birds to your Autumn Yard
• Pretty in Purple
• Celebrating National Pollinator Week: June 19 - 25, 2023
• Blueberries for your Edible Ornamental Landscape
• Radiant Rudbeckias
• Happy Halloweeding: Lantana
• Happy Halloweeding: Air Potato
• Happy Halloweeding: Mexican Petunia
• Happy Halloweeding: Chinese Tallow
• Happy Halloweeding: Tropical Soda Apple

• Flowering Groundcovers: Beyond Just Grass
• Lovely Loropetalums
• Sticky Winter Weeds
• Darrow's Blueberry: A lovely native plant for your edible FL Landscape
• Summer Wildlife Happenings
• Herbicide Damage: The Mysterious Case of Curling Leaves
• Pruning Palms
• Fig Rust
• Chinch Bugs in Zoysia
• Florida Forest Service Accepting Applications to Help Landowners Combat Southern Pine Beetle Outbreaks

• Cigar Flower
• WARNING: Tung Oil Trees
• Thou Shalt Not Commit Tree Abuse
• Tussock Moth Caterpillars
• Find Peace with the Weeds
• Freeze Protection for your Plants
• Pruning In Winter
• The Odd and Beautiful Indian Pipe
• Lethal Bronzing Confirmed in Marion County
• The Popular Podocarpus

• Tis the Season for Fungal Lawn Diseases
• Invasives in Bloom
• Grass Looking Thin?
• The Plague of Giant Grasshoppers
• Tent Caterpillars
• The Oleander Aphid - Arch Enemy of Milkweed
• How to Water Your Lawn and Save Water for the Fishes
• Spring Cleaning in the Garden
• Will You Be My Valentine?
• Planting for Pollinators Part III: Good Bugs/Bad Bugs

• Planting for Pollinators Part II: Types of Plants
• Planting for Pollinators Part I: The Dilemma