Gardening in the Panhandle

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The Top Trees Behind Springtime Allergies

The Top Trees Behind Springtime Allergies

Spring in the Florida Panhandle brings blooming azaleas, singing birds, and a familiar yellow haze coating everything in sight. Yes, it’s tree pollen season, and if you’ve ever stepped outside only to feel your sinuses stage a full-scale rebellion, you have the trees...

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Home Vegetable Gardening 101 Seminar

Home Vegetable Gardening 101 Seminar

There are common reasons for failure with vegetable gardens in North Florida. One of those reasons is planting at the wrong time of year. We can grow vegetables year-round here in North Florida but it’s important to plant and grow the right vegetable during the right...

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Residential Composting

Residential Composting

When we turn the page into a new year, the motto is often “out with the old, in with the new.” But what if we actually kept the old and transformed it into something really useful? That’s exactly what happens with composting. Instead of raking up leaves, bagging them,...

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Palms Can Suffer in the Cold

Palms Can Suffer in the Cold

While palms may survive, or even thrive, for years in climates cooler than those to which they are native, eventually they may experience temperatures cold enough to cause injury.  The January 21st snow and wind chill is likely to take a toll on many of the palms in...

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Annual Planting Guide

Annual Planting Guide

Planting annuals is a great way to add color and texture to the landscape.  Annuals can provide an added visual component to the garden regardless of if they're planted in the ground or in containers, or even better—both.  An annual plant completes its life cycle...

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Crown Shyness in Trees

Crown Shyness in Trees

I spent a lot of time in my childhood lying in our backyard hammock, reading. Inevitably, I’d take a break and stare up at the tree canopy above me. We had sweetgum trees in that corner of our yard, and I’d watch squirrels chasing each other through the branches. One...

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