Want to decorate from your yard this holiday season?
Do you want to learn how to use plants in the landscape to naturally add holiday color and interest in your yard and around your home? In the landscape add seasonal color by selecting the right plants for the right place AND in the right color for your seasonal decor. In the home and on the patio, there are many ways you can use foliage, flowers, and fruit as decor. Get some inspiration from this blog post!
In this episode Anne and Julie talk about how to use natural items found in your own yard in your holiday decor and then finish off the episode with unique and creative ways to make giftable items from found natural items.
A new episode out now from Your Central Florida Yard
Your Central Florida Yard, a podcast from UF/IFAS Extension Polk County has a new episode on holiday decor from the garden. Listen to it on Apple, Spotify (below) or whereever you listen to podcasts.
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Your garden checklist
This holiday season, head out into the yard to see what you can use for holiday decor. Cut a few evergreen branches and combine them in a fun and festive way. Do you plan to use a native living tree or a tree from a local forest this year? Let us know!
Learn more
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- In Polk County, contact the Plant Clinic at 863-519-1041, polkmg@ifas.ufl.edu
- Your Central Florida page
- Holiday gift plants: https://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/design/outdoor-living/holiday-gift-plants/
- What’s Growing On? Holiday Flora and Fauna: https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/volusiaco/2022/11/29/whats-growing-on-holiday-flora-fauna/
- Holiday decorating with fresh greenery: https://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheet/holiday-decorating-with-fresh-greenery/
- Wildcrafting for the Holidays (a recorded webinar from UF/IFAS Extension Manatee County): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu5xrsizcdE
- Go a little “greener” this year, consider a Florida native Christmas Tree https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/polkco/2019/11/04/go-a-little-greener-this-year-consider-a-florida-native-christmas-tree/
- Sand pine Christmas tree sale at Lake Wales Ridge State Forest https://www.facebook.com/FloridaStateForests/photos/-dont-miss-out-on-this-years-sand-pine-christmas-tree-sale-at-lake-wales-ridge-s/981795720654490/?_rdr
For more information, contact UF/IFAS Extension Polk County at (863) 519-1041 or visit us online at http://sfyl.ifas.ufl.edu/polk. The Plant Clinic is open Monday-Friday, 9:00 am-4:00 pm to answer your gardening and landscaping questions. Give us a call or email us at polkmg@ifas.ufl.edu.
If you are not in Polk County, Contact your local UF/IFAS Extension Master Gardener Volunteer Plant Clinic.
The Florida Master Gardener Volunteer Program is a volunteer-driven program that benefits UF/IFAS Extension and the citizens of Florida. The program extends the vision of the University of Florida/Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, all the while protecting and sustaining natural resources and environmental systems, enhancing the development of human resources, and improving the quality of human life through the development of knowledge in agricultural, human and natural resources and making that knowledge accessible.
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