By Sidney Craig Dig into a new garden bed, and you may find pale sand, shell, gravel, gray fill, orange subsoil, old roots, or a thin dark layer spread over something harder underneath, and just a few feet away, the soil may look vastly different. This is because most...
Planting a new shade tree is one of the best long-term investments you can make for your Florida landscape. Whether you have added a Live Oak, Red Maple, Slash Pine, or Crape Myrtle, a healthy shade tree enhances curb appeal, provides natural cooling, and increases...
If you've spent time maintaining a traditional turf grass lawn in Florida, you know the typical recipe: an endless need for heavy watering, routinely applied synthetic fertilizers, pest treatments, and weekly mowing that can't be skipped. What if you could break that...
Our goals in creating a Florida native yard are to create an interesting and welcoming habitat for people, pets, and wildlife. However, if you're a pet owner, there are some extra steps you should keep in mind when designing your Florida landscape or garden. This...
We are talking about one of the most iconic, beautiful, and resilient native plants in our state: the Sabal Palmetto (also commonly known as the cabbage palm or sabal palm). As our official state tree, Sabal palms are a gorgeous addition that can frame any Florida...
By Sidney Craig When most people hear bee, they picture the honey bee: striped, living in a hive, useful, and maybe a little alarming in numbers. But the honey bee is only one bee, and in North America it is not a native one. Florida’s native bees are a much wider,...
The Summer Shift: From Fertilizing Plants to Feeding Soil By Sidney Craig Every summer, Tampa Bay enters an intense season of high temperatures, rain, thunderstorms, and occasional hurricanes. From June 1 through September 30, Pinellas County, and many others,...
