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January 2009

Unearthing Your Green Thumb

Tropical bromeliads can add color all winter long

While many of the landscape plants have settled into their winter slumber, there are some that are keeping their vibrant color.These are bromeliads (bromm-ell-EE-ads).They fill plant beds and patios with foliage colors... Read More

November 2008

Unearthing Your Green Thumb

Spring is just a refrigerator away

Think spring. OK: think spring bulbs. For much of the United States (if you read and believe national magazines), tulips and daffodils are the harbingers of longer days and warmer nights. It’s not so much a... Read More

October 2008

Unearthing Your Green Thumb

Fall is for gardening

The temperatures are starting to cool down (Yes! Notice! OK, you have to do this before dawn … but soon it will transcend into daylight hours).The days get shorter. The weather gets drier.All this leads to good... Read More

September 2008

Unearthing Your Green Thumb

Butterflies

These are usually the stuff of lazy summer days, colorful wings flitting about the colorful flowers on a quest for nectar. Or to find a mate during a very brief life span. And then a place to lay eggs.But fall is really... Read More

August 2008

Unearthing Your Green Thumb

The Dog Days of Summer

August is the end of a gardening season — if it hadn’t already ended for you — but the prime time to start a new season.Fall/winter is really the best time to garden in North Central Florida. And... Read More

June 2008

Unearthing Your Green Thumb

Cannas: Florida perennials for the summer garden

While June is not really considered summer by, say, gardeners in the northern regions of the country, it sure is here in North Central Florida.Actually, has been summer. Remember in April when it got down to 36 degrees... Read More