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Bay-Friendly Landscaping: August 2014
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A True Tale of Our Commitment to Creating a Landscape that Benefits the Environment While Saving Us Money, Time and Sweat. Friday, August 15, 2014. The Color of Sunshine. Yellow is the color of those cute little smiley face icons we add to our email messages, of rubber duckies, of bananas, and pollen. It's a happy color. It is the color of sunshine, the color of Florida. Many of the flowers look like daisies, with multiple ray-like petals encircling either a yellow or dark center disk. That reach heights...
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Bay-Friendly Landscaping: When Passions Collide
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A True Tale of Our Commitment to Creating a Landscape that Benefits the Environment While Saving Us Money, Time and Sweat. Wednesday, May 28, 2014. I love making things grow. I also love having butterflies in my yard. About this time every year, the two passions collide - literally! I have three types of passionvine in my yard:. Maypop passionvine (Passiflora incarnata). Corky stem passionvine (Passiflora suberosa). Also native to Florida. Lady Margaret is planted on my backyard fence in full, blazing su...
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Bay-Friendly Landscaping: October 2013
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A True Tale of Our Commitment to Creating a Landscape that Benefits the Environment While Saving Us Money, Time and Sweat. Monday, October 28, 2013. The King of the Beautyberry. The "King" always emerges from these non-contact scuffles victorious, and immediately returns to his tree to plunder the berries. No matter that there are plenty of berries to go around. Mockingbirds are very territorial, not to mention fearless - who hasn't been strafed by an angry mocker during nesting season? I have bird feede...
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Bay-Friendly Landscaping: August 2013
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A True Tale of Our Commitment to Creating a Landscape that Benefits the Environment While Saving Us Money, Time and Sweat. Wednesday, August 14, 2013. The Butterfly Blizzard of 2013. This is our Summer of Butterflies. Never before have we had so many winged wonders flitting around our garden. It's a Butterfly Blizzard. Zebra longwing on porterweed. Gulf fritillary on Tampa vervain. It's easy to attract butterflies to your yard and there are a wealth of online resources to help you get started. Here a...
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Bay-Friendly Landscaping: July 2013
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A True Tale of Our Commitment to Creating a Landscape that Benefits the Environment While Saving Us Money, Time and Sweat. Monday, July 22, 2013. Five Natives You Don't See Everyday, But Should. I have these plants and love them. They are the trailblazers, hopefully to be followed soon by many more representatives of "real Florida.". Tampa Vervain ( Glandularia tampenis. Mistflower ( Conoclinium coelestinum. Who doesn't love blue in their garden? Bees and small butterflies like skippers are fond of this ...
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Bay-Friendly Landscaping: May 2014
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A True Tale of Our Commitment to Creating a Landscape that Benefits the Environment While Saving Us Money, Time and Sweat. Wednesday, May 28, 2014. I love making things grow. I also love having butterflies in my yard. About this time every year, the two passions collide - literally! I have three types of passionvine in my yard:. Maypop passionvine (Passiflora incarnata). Corky stem passionvine (Passiflora suberosa). Also native to Florida. Lady Margaret is planted on my backyard fence in full, blazing su...
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Bay-Friendly Landscaping: April 2013
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A True Tale of Our Commitment to Creating a Landscape that Benefits the Environment While Saving Us Money, Time and Sweat. Wednesday, April 24, 2013. My Big, Bad Gardening Boo-Boo. Just when I think I'm actually getting the hang of this Bay-Friendly Landscaping, reality slaps me right up side the head! And I have no one to blame but myself. Two years ago, I planted a pretty low-growing groundcover native to the Pacific Islands called dwarf chenille plant,. In my mulched beds to take up space. Not known t...
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Bay-Friendly Landscaping: January 2013
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A True Tale of Our Commitment to Creating a Landscape that Benefits the Environment While Saving Us Money, Time and Sweat. Thursday, January 3, 2013. New Year's Resolutions for True Floridians. Let's make 2013 the year we kick our bad gardening habits and embrace gardening like the Floridians we are now, no matter where we came from or how we got here. So fellow Sunshine Staters, back away from the power tools and pesticides, take a deep breath, and repeat after me:. I WILL use the Right Plant in the Rig...
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Bay-Friendly Landscaping: Five Natives You Don't See Everyday, But Should
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A True Tale of Our Commitment to Creating a Landscape that Benefits the Environment While Saving Us Money, Time and Sweat. Monday, July 22, 2013. Five Natives You Don't See Everyday, But Should. I have these plants and love them. They are the trailblazers, hopefully to be followed soon by many more representatives of "real Florida.". Tampa Vervain ( Glandularia tampenis. Mistflower ( Conoclinium coelestinum. Who doesn't love blue in their garden? Bees and small butterflies like skippers are fond of this ...
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Bay-Friendly Landscaping: The King of the Beautyberry
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A True Tale of Our Commitment to Creating a Landscape that Benefits the Environment While Saving Us Money, Time and Sweat. Monday, October 28, 2013. The King of the Beautyberry. The "King" always emerges from these non-contact scuffles victorious, and immediately returns to his tree to plunder the berries. No matter that there are plenty of berries to go around. Mockingbirds are very territorial, not to mention fearless - who hasn't been strafed by an angry mocker during nesting season? I have bird feede...