Florida Gardening

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

Fireflies used to blink across Florida yards on warm summer nights, but a lot of us barely see…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 16

Few birds stop people in their tracks the way a male painted bunting does, with his electric blue…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 16

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

Your Florida front yard can do more than just sit there looking pretty. With the right picks, it…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 15

Barn owls are one of Florida’s most effective natural hunters, quietly patrolling yards and fields after dark in…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 15

Florida mosquitoes are relentless, and it makes sense to wonder whether bats could help take the edge off.…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 15

If you have ever watched a tray of store-bought annuals melt into mush by the Fourth of July,…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 15

Most Florida fences just sit there, baking in the sun, doing nothing for the yard’s wildlife or its…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 15

If you keep patching bare, brown spots in your St. Augustine lawn every summer, you are not alone.…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 15

Keeping a perfect lawn in Florida can feel like a part-time job. Between the irrigation bills, the weekend…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 14

Painted buntings are some of the most colorful birds you can spot in Florida, and the right vines…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 14

Across Florida, some homeowners are swapping out thirsty grass lawns for a low-growing native groundcover called frogfruit, and…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 14

Florida summers are brutal on most flowers, but one native plant not only survives the heat – it…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 14

Big-box garden centers in Florida love selling the same thirsty tomatoes and fussy roses that melt in July…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 14

Spotting a flash of red at your feeder is one of those small moments that can stop you…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 14

Remember when summer nights in Florida flickered with tiny living lanterns? Fireflies are fading from many backyards because…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 13

Florida summers mean more time outdoors on the patio, but mosquitoes and ticks can make every evening miserable.…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 13

Rats in a Florida backyard are more than a nuisance, they chew wires, raid gardens, and multiply fast…

By Aria Moore F · Jul 13