Get The Dirt: Gardening Downtime Provides Planning Opportunities
Cooler weather gives us time to plan for spring from inside our homes when we prefer not to be working in the weather outside....
Get The Dirt: More New Year’s Resolutions For You And Your...
With New Year’s Eve right around the corner, it’s time to ponder your resolutions for 2024. Many involve gardening activities, which can include improving...
Get The Dirt: Holiday Gift Ideas For The Gardeners In Your...
With Christmas and the new year right around the corner, it’s time to ponder what to give your gardening friends. The classic holiday plant...
Get The Dirt: Fall Gardening To-do List
Either you love or hate to-do lists. For those of you that love lists, here’s my list of fall to-do’s.
• Water less: Decrease landscape...
Get The Dirt: Rainwater Harvesting: Now Is The Time
If you haven’t attended a rainwater harvesting workshop with our office, UF/IFAS Extension Hillsborough County, you may want to sign-up to participate. We are...
Get The Dirt: When The Rain Arrives, Consider These Options!
Many of us, hopefully most, care if we save potable — i.e., drinking — water in the landscape. About 1,000 people move to Florida...
Get The Dirt: Reds, Whites And Blues!
This time of year I’m thinking about a patriotic landscape of red, white and blue. Red is a great color for adding an eye-catching...
Get The Dirt: High-color, Low-maintenance And Drought-tolerant Shrubs, Vines And Grasses
For those of us around Florida who enjoy a large amount of color in our landscapes but have little time to maintain what we...
Get The Dirt: UF/IFAS Helps Identify And Avoid Invasive Plants
Invasive plants can create havoc in your yard by displacing native vegetation. Their populations explode, with catastrophic effects. Those include displacing native and non-native...
Get The Dirt: Bette S. Walker Discovery Garden
Interested in innovative ideas for your landscape? Need a mini getaway? Now is a great time to visit the Bette S. Walker Discovery Garden,...
