Gardening

This year’s Earth Day, which celebrated the event’s 40th anniversary, meant something quite special at Beachland Elementary School.

Florida does not have an arid climate, but with a seven-month long dry season, it can feel like a desert.

Rosemary (Rosmarinus officianalis) is a winter-blooming shrub that grows well throughout Florida. That alone makes it a great choice for your garden. But like a talented actor, rosemary plays multiple roles. It brightens your drought-tolerant landscape, adds flavor to your cooking and aroma to your potpourri. Rosemary has been immortalized in song and classic literature, plus it plays a part in a charming legend of Christmas.

We here in Florida are fortunate that we can grow cool-weather vegetables right through the winter. It’s a good feeling that when you harvest your own produce, you know how it’s been treated from seed to table.

Florida is a paradise with its warm weather and abundance of beaches, rivers, springs and lakes; but sometimes there’s trouble in paradise.

With its exotic vegetation and primaeval vistas, McKee Botanical Garden has inspired generations of fashion and landscape photographers.

What would the Florida landscape be without our palms? Those gracefully curved trunks and topknots of fronds are mainstays of any tropical setting.

Without fungi, we’d be in a heap of trouble—literally.

While not all garden lore has been proven invalid, many old myths are blithely passed along by today’s gardening experts.

There are quite a few bromeliads that grow well in Vero Beach, and once in place will require very little care.