Plant declining Easter and Asiatic lilies in the sunny garden. 53. Feed lilies and other aquatic plants in home water gardens. 54. Trim formal hedges after they produce 4 to 6 inches of new growth ...

The bat-faced cuphea is a fine little shrub for Central Florida. ... The species makes an excellent low-maintenance foundation plant, butterfly garden member and mixed-shrubbery border component.

Popular Florida garden plant revives near-extinct butterfly population The Atala butterfly, thought near-extinct for decades, has returned to the Floridian mainland ...

Those interested can come to the butterfly garden outside the UF-IFAS office in Sarasota, place some young potted coontie plants near the butterflies, which will lay eggs, then move the plants to ...

So that was in 2011, and we had our first garden party that spring in 2011 with the newly named Butterfly Bar, and then the Butterfly Garden. And people brought all kinds of plants. We planted ...

Discover hundreds of varieties of native plants, succulents, cactus and pollinator-friendly species with more than 30,000 plants to choose from at Desert Botanical Garden’s Spring Plant Sale ...

Among my all-time favorite plants is mountain thistle (Acanthus montanus), a 3- to 5-foot-tall perennial with a spreading growth habit. An ideal plant for bright, filtered light, mountain thistle ...

Lavender plants will produce the best fragrance in soils with a high pH, with a pH of 6 being the lowest they can tolerate. High humidity can also harm lavender plants, so proper spacing is important.

In 2017, FLORIDA TODAY ran an article about the Atala butterfly that was previously thought to be extinct but had been discovered again. Since that time, the butterflies have made a resurgence and ...

WINTER GARDEN, Fla. — Farmers in Central Florida are preparing for a cold snap this week that could impact their crops. It was 40 degrees at the first farmers' market of the year in Winter Garden.

Butterfly Estates closes, but the society mission continues. The Butterfly Estates had been a downtown fixture since it opened in 2009 with the butterfly house ― also known as The Florida Native ...

May in the Garden for Central Florida Plant Doctor Tom MacCubbin shares his ... black-eyed-Susan, blue daze, bromeliads, browallia, bush daisy, butterfly weed, cat’s whiskers, celosia ...