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Right Plant, Right Place Makes Gardening Easy
Austin Outdoor Florida introduces some principles that will save you time by getting it right the first time. Meems has a great presentation on her blog showing Native and Florida-friendly plants...
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Purple Showers Mexican Petunia, The Sterile One
Purple Showers is becoming the most popular perennial in Florida for good reason. It is very Florida Friendly as it grows in wet or dry sites without irrigation, requires no fertilizer, has no pest...
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American Beautyberry
If you live near any wooded or open area, chances are you have volunteer Beautyberry seedlings that have sprouted in your garden periphery. It is one of the natives we recommend for your perennial and...
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9 Principles of Florida Friendly Landscapes
Austin Outdoors has a classy video to help you learn and remember the University of Florida’s 9 principles. Once you have studied them a few times these principles begin to sink into your way of...
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Washington Oaks State Park
Elizabeth Mann’s Blog is a great one to follow in your feed reader. Check out this video she produced and then visit her blog for more on Washington Oaks and other gardens she has visited. You should...
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School Garden Classroom… Model for Florida Schools?
Occasionally you get to see something that inspires you so much you can’t stop thinking about the possibilities. I met teacher, Mark Painter, and his enthusiastic volunteer staff of parents and...
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Florida Yards and Neighborhoods Plant Selection Guide
Hot off the press, the new Florida Yards and Neighborhoods Plant Selection Guide.You will be very impressed with this downloadable publication that shows you in great detail how to design and implement...
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Florida Friendly Demonstration Gardens - The Discovery Garden
This week I visited The Discovery Garden at the Hillsborough County Extension Office as the Master Gardeners did a spring cleanup and planting. It should be ready for prime time Monday but call before...
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Modern pest control has changed radically in the past decade with the availability of many biological pest control agents that we can use in our Integrated Pest Management - IPM system. Controlling...
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Videos you can share with your children before you take them outside and show them what is going on in your garden. You can plant Milkweed in a sunny spot around your home or in a container on your...
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