What Happens to Your Summer Bug Problem When Anoles Move Into Your Florida Yard
Walk through almost any Florida yard in July and you are likely to spot a small lizard darting through the shrubs or freezing on a…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 24, 2026
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Florida Gardening
Florida Native Trees That Replace Crape Myrtles Along Your Fence Line And Driveway
Crape myrtles are pretty, but they are not the only choice for a sunny Florida fence line or…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 24
Florida Gardening
The Florida Nurseries Quietly Growing Native Fruit Trees Your Big-Box Garden Center Won’t Stock
Florida has fruit trees that most garden centers never put near the front door. Many are native, tough,…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 23
Florida Gardening
The Only Roses That Actually Shrug Off Florida Heat and Keep Blooming All Summer
Florida can make roses work hard. Hot nights, sandy soil, sudden storms, and black spot can turn fussy…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 23
Florida Gardening
Protecting Florida Plumeria Active Growth for Summer Blooms
Florida plumeria owners often search for one secret action that will guarantee a yard full of flowers in…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 23
Florida Gardening
What To Do With Your Florida Gardenias Right Now So They Keep Blooming All Summer
Gardenias have a way of making their feelings known. When they are happy, the whole yard fills with…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 23
Florida Gardening
The Native Florida Plants Worth Getting in the Ground This Week While the Rain Waters Them
Rainy weeks are a gift for Florida gardeners. New plants settle in faster when the sky helps with…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 23
Florida Gardening
This Is How Florida Gardeners Keep Their Plumeria Blooming From Summer Straight Into Fall
Plumeria is one of those plants that stops people in their tracks when it blooms, filling the yard…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 23
Florida Gardening
What To Do With Your Florida Bougainvillea Now So It Blooms Nonstop All Summer
Bougainvillea is one of Florida’s most dramatic plants, capable of exploding into brilliant color that stops traffic and…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 22
Florida Gardening
How Florida Gardeners Actually Get Desert Rose Cuttings to Root When Most Guides Fail Them
Desert rose is one of those plants that looks impossible to grow from a cutting until you actually…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 22
Florida Gardening
The Native Florida Privacy Plants That Screen Your Yard Without Bamboo Taking Over
Bamboo can make a fast wall, but in Florida it can also become a yard problem that keeps…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 22
Florida Gardening
The Native Florida Plants Fueling the 2026 Pollinator Garden Trend – and Why the Old Nectar Beds Are Fading
Florida gardens are changing fast, and bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds are part of the reason. Many gardeners are…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 22
Florida Gardening
The Right Way to Prune Your Florida Plumeria So Every Cut Supports Better Blooms
Plumeria is one of those plants that makes Florida gardeners feel like they live somewhere truly special, with…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 22
Florida Gardening
Where to Plant Bird of Paradise in Your Florida Yard So It Grows Into a Dramatic Tropical Focal Point
Bird of paradise is one of those plants that can stop traffic in a Florida yard, but the…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 22
Florida Gardening
8 Native Florida Plants That Replace Your Lawn and Look Better by Next Summer
A green lawn can look nice, but in Florida it often asks for too much water, mowing, fertilizer,…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 21
Florida Gardening
The Florida Native Edibles That Grow Real Food in Containers and Look Good on Any Porch
A porch can grow more than pretty flowers in Florida. With the right native edible plants, even a…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 21
Florida Gardening
What To Do With Your Florida Plumeria In July So It Peaks Through the Rainy Season
July is when Florida’s heat and daily thunderstorms test every plant in the yard, and plumeria is no…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 21
Florida Gardening
July Nights Are Peak Firefly Season in Florida – Here’s What Actually Brings Them to Your Yard
Walk outside on a warm Florida evening in July and you might catch a few soft yellow-green flashes…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 21
Florida Gardening
The Low-Water Native Plants Quietly Taking Over Florida Front Yards While the Turf Struggles This Summer
Florida lawns can look tired fast when summer heat, sandy soil, and water rules all hit at once.…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 21
Florida Gardening
The One Thing To Do With Your Florida Desert Rose in July So It Keeps Blooming Through the Rainy Season
Your Desert Rose is one of the showiest plants you can grow in a Florida container garden, and…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 21
Florida Gardening
Florida Perennials for Pots That Keep Coming Back Year After Year Without the Fuss
Growing flowers in pots around your Florida home should feel like a treat, not a chore. The good…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 20
Florida Gardening
The 7 Rat-Repelling Flowers Florida Gardeners Are Planting Before Roof Rats Settle In for Good
Roof rats love Florida almost as much as we do, sneaking into attics, citrus trees, and garden sheds…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 20
Florida Gardening
Native Florida Trees That Replace a Silent Podocarpus Hedge With One That’s Loud With Wildlife
A podocarpus hedge looks tidy, but it barely feeds a single bird or butterfly. Swapping it for a…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 20
Florida Gardening
The Only Pink Perennials Worth Making Room For in Florida’s Hot, Humid Summers
Florida summers can wilt just about any flower with their sticky heat, sudden downpours, and sandy soil that…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 20
Florida Gardening
The One Native Florida Plant That Brings Luna Moths Back to Your Backyard
Luna moths are some of the most beautiful insects in Florida, with pale green wings and long, curling…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 20
Florida Gardening
The 8 Native Florida Plants That Cover The Ground Better Than Mulch And Look Designed
Mulch fades, washes away in summer storms, and needs replacing every single year, which gets old fast when…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 20
Florida Gardening
The Florida-Friendly Plant That Shrugs Off Full Sun and Still Looks Fresh When Everything Else Wilts
Florida summers are hard on flowers. Scorching heat, heavy rain, sandy soil that dries out fast, and humidity…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 19
Florida Gardening
How Florida Gardeners Prune Basil in the Heat So It Keeps Coming Back Fuller
Growing basil in Florida can feel like a race against the sun. The heat pushes plants to grow…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 19
Florida Gardening
The Shade Tree Florida Neighborhoods Are Quietly Adding For Real Cooling Without The Mess
Shade is serious business in Florida, where summer heat turns a concrete driveway into a frying pan and…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 19
Florida Gardening
The Native Florida Plants Quietly Retiring Liriope Borders Because They Look Better and Skip the Hose
Liriope has been the go-to edging plant in Florida yards for decades, but a lot of gardeners are…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 19
Florida Gardening
How to Turn a Corner of Your Florida Yard Into a Wildflower Meadow That Runs Itself
Replacing a scraggly lawn corner with a patch of native wildflowers sounds like the easiest project in the…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 19
Florida Gardening
What It Really Means When a Red-Bellied Woodpecker Keeps Visiting Your Florida Yard
Spotting a Red-bellied Woodpecker once is exciting, but watching one return to your yard again and again makes…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 19
Florida Gardening
9 Florida Groundcovers That Choke Out Weeds Naturally So You Can Stop Fighting Your Lawn
Fighting weeds in Florida can feel like a losing battle, especially when your sandy soil bakes under the…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 18
Florida Gardening
The Florida Native Plants That Pull In Painted Buntings and Fireflies to the Very Same Yard
Imagine stepping into your Florida backyard at dusk and spotting a rainbow-colored painted bunting at your seed heads…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 18
Florida Gardening
The Simple Florida Yard Changes That Can Make a Yard More Firefly-Friendly
Fireflies lit up Florida backyards for generations, but many homeowners have watched them slowly disappear over the past…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 18
Florida Gardening
The Florida Guide to Keeping Your Desert Rose Blooming Instead of Just Barely Surviving
Desert rose (Adenium obesum) is one of those plants that rewards attention with spectacular, trumpet-shaped blooms in shades…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 18
Florida Gardening
This Native Flower Quietly Replaces the High-Maintenance Annual Beds South Florida Keeps Replanting
South Florida gardeners know the cycle well: plant a bed of colorful annuals, watch them struggle through summer…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 18
Florida Gardening
Why Coontie Belongs in Florida Yards – and What UF/IFAS Actually Says About It
Coontie is one of Florida’s most underrated native plants, a low-growing evergreen that handles sandy soil, coastal salt,…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 18
Florida Gardening
The Underrated Florida Porch Plant That Keeps Rats and Roaches Away While Looking Purely Decorative
Most Florida porch owners grow rosemary because it smells great and looks sharp in a pot. What fewer…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 17
Florida Gardening
What It Really Means When Blue Jays Keep Screaming From Your Florida Oak Every Morning
Most Florida mornings start the same way: coffee, humidity, and a Blue Jay somewhere in the oak tree…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 17
Florida Gardening
Why Coral Honeysuckle Is the Native Vine That Turns a Bare Florida Fence Into a Hummingbird Magnet
A bare wooden or chain-link fence sitting in the Florida sun is a missed opportunity, and coral honeysuckle…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 17
Florida Gardening
The Front-Lawn Groundcover Florida Homeowners Are Planting That HOAs Can’t Legally Touch
A low-growing native plant called frogfruit is quietly showing up in Florida front yards as an alternative to…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 17
Florida Gardening
Why Painted Buntings Skip Most Florida Yards — and the Few Changes That Finally Bring Them In
Painted Buntings are among the most colorful birds in North America, and Florida is one of the few…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 17
Florida Gardening
8 Florida Plants That Bring Sandhill Cranes Into Your Yard and Put the Bug Population on Notice
Sandhill cranes are those tall, gray birds with red foreheads that stroll through Florida yards like they own…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 17
Florida Gardening
This Native Shrub Is Quietly Replacing the Tired Foundation Plantings Around Florida Homes
Florida homeowners are quietly swapping out overgrown, thirsty foundation shrubs for plants that can handle the heat, look…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 16
Florida Gardening
The Native Florida Edibles That Keep Producing Food Through Summer Heat Without Constant Watering
Florida summers can cook a garden alive, and most veggies from the grocery store seed rack give up…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 16
Florida Gardening
10 Calm Things to Do When an Opossum Starts Making Nightly Rounds in Your Florida Yard
If you have spotted a slow-moving, gray critter shuffling across your Florida yard after dark, chances are you…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 16
Florida Gardening
8 Florida Plants That Give Fireflies the Cover They Need to Light Up Your Yard Again
Fireflies used to blink across Florida yards on warm summer nights, but a lot of us barely see…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 16
Florida Gardening
How to Layer Florida Natives So Painted Buntings Actually Show Up in Your Yard
Few birds stop people in their tracks the way a male painted bunting does, with his electric blue…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 16
Florida Gardening
The Best Florida Native Plant Nurseries Worth the Drive When Big Garden Centers Fall Short
Big-box garden centers are convenient, but they rarely stock the tough, Florida-born plants that actually thrive in our…
By Aria Moore F · Jul 16