It’s easy to tend to your palm tree’s unique nutritional needs. Just remember the number 3! 3 elements your palms need to stay healthy Applied in correct combination; magnesium, iron, and manganese will keep fronds from yellowing or curling. How much and when depends on where you live. For instance,…
Bougainvilleas are considered one of the world’s most beautiful flowering vines They are members of the Four-O’Clock (Nyctaginaceae) family and are native to Brazil, Peru and Argentina. These colorful climbing shrubs have paper-like blossoms which are actually bracts, located just below the flower stalk. Look closely into the middle of…
Hong Kong Orchid trees (B. X blakeana) have fragrant flowers of evocative of showy orchids. If you are interested in planting an orchid tree, I recommend planting a Hong Kong Orchid Tree. Unlike many of the other orchid trees, this variety is sterile and will not produce invasive seeds. The…
February in Florida- It’s time to add veggies and color to your garden The freeze this year has left many of our Florida gardens looking drab and depressing. It was best to wait out all of January to plant anything this year, due to our unusually cold days and nights.…
Reviving your frozen frazzled yard: a five-step program If you are on the verge of trimming dead branches, you will be committing foliage-cide!. Resist, resist! Trimming prematurely can cause even more damage! I am receiving lots of calls and emails from stressed out gardeners who are wondering what to do and what…
Give your cold-sensitive palms the “Blanket Treatment”. If you’ve planted new or cold sensitive palms in your garden, you will need to take some protective measures once the thermometer hovers just above freezing or goes below freezing. The first two years in a palm’s life in the ground are especially…
“It’s freezin!” This is the number one topic in Florida the first week of January. One has to laugh because lots of Floridians are transplanted northerners. I have heard many garden owners complain about covering their plants. Depending on where you escaped from, covering your plants for a few nights…