Shrubs and grasses: our great connectors at ground level. These types of plants will dominate the square footage of most landscapes as they work their way around trees, structures, paved surfaces, and parameters linking all these different elements like a cohesive...
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Risk Plants for Cold Weather
It's important to know which plants are at risk during frosty or freezing weather. Check out this infograhpic for more information to see if your plants are at risk.

Planting Guide For Fakahatchee Grass – Florida Native
Fakahatchee Grass (tripsacum dactyloides), alternately also referred to as Eastern Gamagrass, is an extremely popular Florida native ornamental grass. This grass is evergreen in sub-tropical areas and has bright green blades with a serrated edge. They grow in rounded...
Florida Wildlife Gardens To Help Pollinators And Other Creatures
Our gardens can be a living landscape full of varied plants and trees that act as a refuge for birds, mammals and insects. Large or small, all gardens are crucial in giving nature a helping hand. By making clever choices for your gardens, borders and herb patches and...

Hurricane Preparedness Tips for Your Landscape
The hurricane season began on June 1st. Plan ahead and prepare your landscape for severe thunderstorms and tropical weather.
How To Plant A Firebush
Firebush (Hamelia patens) is a perennial. A semi-woody shrub, native to South Florida that can grow to about 5-10 ft. tall in height. Also called scarlet bush, its bright red-orange tubular flowers bloom from late spring till the first frost and attract butterflies,...
Celebrating Spring: Where To See Florida Wildflowers
Spring is here and wildflowers are popping up all over the country from the deserts of California to the North American Plains. Even in Florida the colorful blooms of spring wildflowers are already on display, buzzing with insects and alive with the sound of birds....