Get The Dirt: Drought Tolerant Plants And A Dry Spring
How can you balance a dry spring with your desire for landscape plants? Utilize drought- tolerant plants in your landscape. As always, consider the...
Get The Dirt: Spring Gardening In Hillsborough County
March is ready, set…garden month in Hillsborough County. We’re past the last chance of frost, and we can put plans and plants into place...
How To Care For Your Holiday Plants
With the holidays a distant memory, you may have received or purchased a holiday plant. Below are a few tips about the care required...
My Favorite Funky Flowers; December 2020
Last month I shared information about three of my favorite funky flowers: Spiral ginger, Dutchman’s pipe and Hoya. We felt three favorites were not...
My Favorite Funky Flowers
At our UF/IFAS Extension Hillsborough County office—and in my home landscape—we have several unusual flowering plants. They are so amazingly strange-looking that you would...
If I Could Only Have Two Shrubs In My Landscape…; October...
Last month, I shared information on firebush, also known as scarlet bush and Hamelia patens. This month, the second shrub that is a must-have...
If I Could Only Have Two Shrubs In My Landscape…
If I could only have two shrubs in my landscape, one would be firebush, also known as scarlet bush or Hamelia patens. This is...
Home Composting Workshops Offers By Extension
Did you know that we, the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Hillsborough County Extension, offer Home Composting workshops to our...
A Favorite Heat-Seeking Annual – Coleus
Annual flowers provide a great opportunity to color up your landscape, front porch and lanai, whether in the ground or in containers. Most Florida...
2020 Florida State Fair – Recycled Yard Art Contest
Twice each year, UF/IFAS Extension in Hillsborough County sponsors a Recycled Yard Art Contest, one at the Florida State Fair and one at the...
