Florida Gardening

Fireflies turning a Florida backyard into a summer light show feel like magic, but most yards are quietly…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 24

A plain back fence can do more than mark the edge of your yard. In Florida, the right…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 24

Walk through almost any Florida yard in July and you are likely to spot a small lizard darting…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 24

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 has fruit trees that most garden centers never put near the front door. Many are native, tough,…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 23

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 plumeria owners often search for one secret action that will guarantee a yard full of flowers in…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 23

Gardenias have a way of making their feelings known. When they are happy, the whole yard fills with…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 23

Rainy weeks are a gift for Florida gardeners. New plants settle in faster when the sky helps with…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 23

Plumeria is one of those plants that stops people in their tracks when it blooms, filling the yard…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 23

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

Desert rose is one of those plants that looks impossible to grow from a cutting until you actually…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 22

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 gardens are changing fast, and bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds are part of the reason. Many gardeners are…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 22

Plumeria is one of those plants that makes Florida gardeners feel like they live somewhere truly special, with…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 22

Bird of paradise is one of those plants that can stop traffic in a Florida yard, but the…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 22

A green lawn can look nice, but in Florida it often asks for too much water, mowing, fertilizer,…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 21

A porch can grow more than pretty flowers in Florida. With the right native edible plants, even a…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 21

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

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 lawns can look tired fast when summer heat, sandy soil, and water rules all hit at once.…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 21

Your Desert Rose is one of the showiest plants you can grow in a Florida container garden, and…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 21

Growing flowers in pots around your Florida home should feel like a treat, not a chore. The good…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 20

Roof rats love Florida almost as much as we do, sneaking into attics, citrus trees, and garden sheds…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 20

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 summers can wilt just about any flower with their sticky heat, sudden downpours, and sandy soil that…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 20

Luna moths are some of the most beautiful insects in Florida, with pale green wings and long, curling…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 20

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 summers are hard on flowers. Scorching heat, heavy rain, sandy soil that dries out fast, and humidity…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 19

Growing basil in Florida can feel like a race against the sun. The heat pushes plants to grow…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 19

Shade is serious business in Florida, where summer heat turns a concrete driveway into a frying pan and…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 19

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

Replacing a scraggly lawn corner with a patch of native wildflowers sounds like the easiest project in the…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 19

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

Fighting weeds in Florida can feel like a losing battle, especially when your sandy soil bakes under the…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 18

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

Fireflies lit up Florida backyards for generations, but many homeowners have watched them slowly disappear over the past…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 18

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

South Florida gardeners know the cycle well: plant a bed of colorful annuals, watch them struggle through summer…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 18

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

Most Florida porch owners grow rosemary because it smells great and looks sharp in a pot. What fewer…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 17

Most Florida mornings start the same way: coffee, humidity, and a Blue Jay somewhere in the oak tree…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 17

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

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

Painted Buntings are among the most colorful birds in North America, and Florida is one of the few…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 17

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 homeowners are quietly swapping out overgrown, thirsty foundation shrubs for plants that can handle the heat, look…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 16

Florida summers can cook a garden alive, and most veggies from the grocery store seed rack give up…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 16

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