Introduction: As spring blooms in Florida, gardeners eagerly anticipate the vibrant colors and lush foliage that characterize this season. However, along with the warmer temperatures and increased humidity comes the threat of powdery mildew, a common fungal disease...
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Florida Native Plants: Mangroves: Most Important Coastal Plants
Hey guys, welcome back. We're here again at Bonner Park and we're going to talk about one of our most iconic important but also kind of misunderstood ecosystems, the mangrove ecosystem. So, the mangrove ecosystem actually covers about...
Florida Native Plants: The Florida Privet
Florida privet or Forestiera segregata is a wildlife attracting superstar. So Florida privet can grow about 10 to 15 feet tall and eight to 10 feet wide, will grow in full sun to part shade and is salt and drought tolerant. It flowers all...
Florida Native Plants Profile: Slash Pine
The slash pine, also known as Pinus elliottii is a fast-growing evergreen tree. The splash pine generally in this area is 50 to 60 feet tall and about 30 to 35 feet wide. It likes full sun and part sun environments and can grow in soils as...
Florida Native Plants: The Indestructible Coontie
This plant hearkens back to prehistoric times as the only cycad native to North America. The Coontie is a nearly indestructible plant that you can put almost anywhere. So Zamia integrifolia, also known as the Coontie is a slow-growing...
Common Misconceptions about Florida Native Plants
Hey everyone, welcome back to the nursery. I wanted to do a quick little video today because we hear a lot of things in the nursery, a lot of questions we get asked, but there's a couple of things that come up quite a bit, a lot of...