The purple flower spikes will attract numerous bees to the garden. It grows 2 to 3 feet in height and roots easily from cuttings. Salvia: There are hundreds of different species of salvia.

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 ...

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 ...

Fairgreen Garden Club to meet The Fairgreen Garden Club will meet 11 a.m. Thursday, April 4, at Smryna Yacht Club, 2015 Riverside Drive, New Smryna Beach. City Commissioner, Jason Mc Gurick will … ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...