When living in Florida, one of the best ways to help the environment while also protecting your property from storm damage is to plant native trees. Florida’s native trees are naturally adapted to the climate and can often withstand hurricane-force winds better than...
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Wilcox Nursery Tour- Bird + Butterfly Garden!
Today we examine one of our central plantings, complete with Shiny Coffee, Privet Cassia and Black Ironwood to create a mini-habitat for birds and butterflies! https://youtu.be/JVXfbAeDbqw
Florida Native Nursery Tour – Cypress
Welcome to Wilcox Nursery and Landscape. I'm Bruce Turley, the owner, and this is where we are focused on native plants and sustainable products and practices. We're going to be talking about native plants and identifying and getting you...
How to Cook with Florida Native Plants Webinar
Want to know how to incorporate native plants into your next meal? Join Davis as he talks about different seasonal Summer natives and how they can be used in everyday cuisine. From Beautyberries to Elderberries, Florida Betony and Creeping Cucumber, we'll discuss some...
Home Gardening With Native Plants – St. Petersburg College Webinar
Checkout the replay from this live webinar with Davis from Wilcox Nursery and Mallory Foster of Wisehands LLC. Get some great tips on home gardening with native plants and how to raise chickens, as well as a great Q & A session with students of St. Petersburg...
Florida Native Plants: Mangroves: Most Important Coastal Plants
Hey guys, welcome back. We're here again at Bonner Park and we're going to talk about one of our most iconic important but also kind of misunderstood ecosystems, the mangrove ecosystem. So, the mangrove ecosystem actually covers about...
Florida Native Plants: The Florida Privet
Florida privet or Forestiera segregata is a wildlife attracting superstar. So Florida privet can grow about 10 to 15 feet tall and eight to 10 feet wide, will grow in full sun to part shade and is salt and drought tolerant. It flowers all...