Gardening in Central Florida

A nother weekend day spent at Leu Gardens. My apiphilia at work. 

Freesia Single Mix Amaryllis White Christmas Oxalis Grand Duchess Veriscolor Ranunculus Flower Fields Collection Those Amaryllis were only ...

I spent yesterday, along with my son, visiting a couple of excellent nurseries in the area. The day started with Biosphere Nursery , an exc...

Plants For Texas® Texas Born, Texas Tested For Texas Gardens™ The plants offered on the Plants for Texas site are in almost all cases also a...

Add the $20 hole to my long list of "conventional garden wisdom" that needs to be debunked. You'll often hear about the import...

Landscape Mulches: Will Subterranean Termites Consume Them? Little is known or mentioned in the literature about mulches and termites. Warn...

The Commercial Floriculture site at the University of Florida is oriented (obviously) at commerical growers. However, it contains a wealth ...

D rinking coffee, looking out the kitchen door, I saw this Zebra Longwing flopping about my garden this morning. I followed it for a bit as ...

It's been an odd summer... Very dry, if you check the monthly averages. However,you wouldn't know it to see it: Longish periods of...

I need to check this place out: Zone 9 Tropical Plants - Offers Exotic Tropical Plants: Flowering and Fragrant Vine Shrub Some of their offe...

For GardenWeb devotees, my trade list... I always have potted up for trade... Stachytarpheta jamaicensis 'Porterweed' Hamelia Patens...

L eu Gardens, about forty miles south of me, is a family favorite destination during the cooler months. Today, Labor Day, we decided to make...

If you've gardened for a while here in the Sunshine State, you quickly learn to be leery of the advice to plant anything "in full s...

(Spicy Jatropha, Jatropha integerrima ). August is upon us: Intense sun, daily highs around 92°, frequent deluges and night-time temperat...

One of the recommended roses from the Central Florida Rose Society, this 'Cecil Brunner' took a long time to come to bloom, but even...

Florida, with over 4,100 species of native or naturalized ferns and seed plants, is the third most floristically diverse state in the United...

O ne of the innumerable reasons I complain about living in Central Florida is that I've always wante d a large fruit orchard, and growin...

I'm out of town, away from my garden. In place of visits to my garden, I've been surfing the 'net and finding lots of useful lin...

The Cherokee Rose is a particularly thorny rose with a liana (scrambling, upright) growth pattern. Even its heps, which turn russet in the f...

Below: Plums on a Chickasaw Plum ( Prunus angustifolia )