Gardening in Central Florida

I'm reading Robbing the Hive right now, so this article in the NYT piqued my interests. I love bees: Every morning, I spend a few momen...

Not long ago, I condensed and reproduced a list of reliable and easy to care for roses for Central Florida . Here's another list of favo...

I love figs! Our old neighbor has a truly massive brown fig tree planted in her swale. It never gets irrigated, and receives full-day direct...

The Orlando Sentinel published a list of favorite roses from the Central Florida Rose Society. The criteria included: Continual bloom (good ...

W e have several species of tree frogs living around our house. This is one of two who live behind a wall fountain on the patio. They usua...

My dahlias continue to thrive... This is a lateral which I should have disbudded, but given that this is new territory for me, I opted for m...

A brown anole ( Anolis sagrei ) inflating its dewlap early one May morning. The plant in the background is an African Blue Basil , a 2006 FN...

Mediterranean Seas ( Delphinium tatsienense ) from Thompson & Morgan. I started these a bit late, in February or March, but they see...

A family of milkweed beetle ( Tetraopes tetraophtalmus ) enjoying the butterfly flora at Leu Garden. 

More true perennials for Florida: Up North, people think of mums as plants for fall. Here, though, Mums have two seasons: I buy them in earl...

Because we can't grow (perennially, in any case) tulips, hyacinths and daffodils, there's a strange idea common to Central Florida ...

Stokes Aster ( Stokesia laevis ) is another reliably perennial herbaceous (as opposed to a shrub) plant here in Central Florida. When dorman...

I got this rose from my grandmother's farm in Bardstown, KY as a small, sickly rooted cutting. My grandmother had it growing for fifty ...

M y gardenias came into bloom last week. I have a love-hate relationship with them. I love them because they're low-maintanence, elegant...

Gaura lindheimeri ("Dancing Butterflies") is a reliable herbaceous perennial here: One of the few plants that gets better every...

I t's been much hotter than usual for this time of April: Every day for the last week, it's gotten up into the upper 80s, often with...

We've had some record-breaking heat (mid 80s) this past week, prompting me to finish running my water line to a spot nearer the garden, ...

I've been too busy, in the garden and at the office, to write much about gardening during the last month. Spring is here -- azaleas, som...

Cool Roses - American Rose Society Rosarians West Palm Beach, Florida.

Some photos of my 'Greenheart Orange' Pot Marigold, which came into bloom a couple of days ago. I don't know if I get the first ...