Focus on rebuilding landscapes with salt-tolerant native plants to mitigate future storm risks.
Hurricane Preparedness Tips for Your Landscape
The hurricane season began on June 1st. Plan ahead and prepare your landscape for severe thunderstorms and tropical weather.
How To Plant A Firebush
Firebush (Hamelia patens) is a perennial. A semi-woody shrub, native to South Florida that can grow to about 5-10 ft. tall in height. Also called scarlet bush, its bright red-orange tubular flowers bloom from late spring till the first frost and attract butterflies, including zebra longwing and gulf fritillary, as well as hummingbirds. This plant also produces black berries to draw in different species of birds such as cedar waxwings, song birds and catbirds that eat the fruit. It stays in bloom through the growing season and when the weather turns cooler, some of the fuzzy leaves also turn bright red.
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Celebrating Spring: Where To See Florida Wildflowers
Spring is here and wildflowers are popping up all over the country from the deserts of California to the North American Plains. Even in Florida the colorful blooms of spring wildflowers are already on display, buzzing with insects and alive with the sound of birds. After all, Florida boasts of many varieties of colorful blossoms in differing sizes, color and shape. In fact, Florida got its name from the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon, who on sighting land named it La Florida, which means “land of flowers.”
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Help Save The Monarch Butterflies
The monarch butterfly is one of the most well-known and recognized. But did you know they are becoming extinct? Learn how you can help save the monarch butterfly.
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Plant Native Milkweeds And Save The Monarch Butterfly
The incredible Monarch butterfly is well known for undertaking long-distance journeys of 1500 miles or more. It’s an amazing feat considering its tiny body size and light weight. Now consider the fact that it undertakes this migration twice in its lifetime; first in autumn, when it flies to a site in central Mexico and back in spring, when it returns north to reproduce.
In Florida, there are also small resident populations of Monarch butterflies that take advantage of the warm climate to breed year-round in southern portions of the state. But the Monarch population is dwindling, with scientists noting a long-term trend of sharp declines due to loss of natural habitat, in particular native milkweeds. (more…)