Get The Dirt: New Year’s Resolutions For Your Garden
Did you know the most popular New Year’s resolutions include improving your fitness, losing weight and saving money? Gardening activities can improve your fitness,...
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: 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: Hurricanes, A Landscape Pruning Opportunity
By Lynn Barber, Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ agent, and Susan Haddock, commercial horticulture agent
Hurricanes provide many of us with the ‘opportunity’ to prune our landscape plants...
Get The Dirt: When Shade-loving Plants Are Now In The Sun
Yes, this is a minor inconvenience, considering the devastation that has occurred in so many areas after two hurricanes. That said, rehabbing our landscapes...
Get The Dirt: Heat-seeking Annuals
Annuals provide a great opportunity to color up your landscape, front porch and lanai, whether in the ground or in containers. Most Florida annuals...
Get The Dirt: Plants That Love Wet Feet
Many of us are hoping our rainy season will get started very soon, and it has and will continue. We can capitalize on our...
Get The Dirt: For The Love Of Mulch And Mulching!
I still love to mulch. It’s relaxing; I’m outdoors and can see immediate results of my labor! It’s multitasking too: mulching while thinking about...
Get The Dirt: A Dozen-plus Ways To Save Potable And Rainwater...
Did you know that April is Water Conservation Month? This year is the 27th anniversary of our celebrations. We should care about saving potable...
Get The Dirt: Creating A Rain Garden
It’s that time of year again where we are generally fortunate to receive rain frequently. If you are looking for a way to capture...