Florida Friendly
Jan/Feb/March 2007
Plant of the Season
Reeves Spirea, also known as
Bridal Wreath.
If you want a low maintenance
blooming, almost evergreen
shrub that grows fast, drought
tolerant, and loves being forgot-
ten about, plant a Spirea can-
toniensis. The white, popcorn-
like flowers produce a spectacu-
lar spring display. I've had a
lovely spirea in my yard for five
years. It's easy care, relatively
pest-free, and I do forget about it,
but it reminds me it's there every
spring!
Florida native: No.
Height: 3' to 6' tall spreading 6'
to 8' wide.
Light: Prefers full sun, but will
bloom in shade.
Watering Needs: Fairly drought
tolerant.
Hardiness: USDA Zones 5 - 9.
Propagation: Spireas are easily
propagated from cuttings of green
tip shoots in late spring and sum-
mer, or grown from seed.
"Though a life of retreat offers various joys,
None, I think, will compare with the time one employs
In the study of herbs, or in striving to gain
Some practical knowledge of nature's domain
Get a garden! What kind you may get matters not . . ."
~ Abbot Walafried Strabo,
Rachenau Abbey,
Hortulus 9th Century
R
etreating to Florida for retirement, leading a life of leisure is a dream for many that move to
our state of year-round flowers and lawns. Gardening is a dream that some wait a lifetime
to enjoy. Why wait till you retire or if you're retired now, why don't you have a garden?
January's article on page 2 will enable you to go through steps of creating the garden of
your dreams without all the hassles and expense that you were worried about.
Sunny days and cooler temperatures at the beginning of our 2007 calendar means it's a great time for
growing herbs. Learn what herbs, flowers, bulbs and vegetables grow best this time of year on page
seven.
Do you have practical knowledge of Florida's natural domain? Do you know what uplands, scrubs,
wetlands, sandhills, coastal salt marshes, and hardwood hammocks are? Check out the Florida Master
Naturalist courses going on in your community this spring at http://www.masternaturalist.ifas.ufl.edu/.
These two week, in-depth courses combine the classroom with nature tours, hikes, and studies of Flor-
ida's flora and fauna. They are a great introduction into Florida's natural habitat for retirees, teachers,
eco-tourism employees, municipal and county employees.
Do you have practical knowledge of your own domain, your backyard? Florida Yards and Neighbor-
hood's New Resident Landscape Workshops are set for 2007. Check out dates, locations, and times in
your city or county at http://cfyn.ifas.ufl.edu/workshops.html. Come learn how to assess your yard,
select the right plants and shrubs, fertilize, manage pests, and the responsibilities of being a good land
steward. What? You're thinking, I don't want to garden or take care of my yard? I want to hire a land-
scaper! The FYN landscape workshops will help you understand what to look for in a landscaping
company and how to talk to your landscaper which will save you time, money, and have less impact on
our environment.
To start your new year off right, make sure to get your Lake County Master Gardener 2007 "My Gar-
den Journal." It has a calendar, kitchen recipes (including my own Potage Crème de Champignons),
garden plot design pages, and a gardening journal all with wonderful photographs of local flora and
fauna. It is available for $14.95 at the Lake County Extension Office on State Road 19 in Tavares.
Supplies are limited.
I'm looking forward to a great year helping you learn about gardening, sustaining the environment, and
working with your homeowner associations and communities. Let me know how I can help you.
Florida Yards & Neighborhoods
Orange County - 407-836-7570
Lake County - 352-343-4101
Seminole County - 407-665-5551
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If I'm ever reborn, I want to be a gardener. There's too much to do for one lifetime!
Gardening With Soul
January
Your Dream Garden
Do you ever fantasize about having a dream garden? Have
you ever visited a garden, sighed thinking to your self: “I
think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It Is an insatiable passion , like everything else to which you give your heart.
would love to have this garden in my own backyard” but
you don’t have a clue as to where to begin? The garden of
your dreams is possible – and do-able – if you can realize
what you’re actually looking for.
The first question to ask when designing a dream garden is:
What do I want? Do I want beautiful colors all year round?
Do I want to attract more birds and butterflies? Would I like
a garden that will help I can enjoy my favorite hobbies like
cooking, reading, or meditating? Do you love to cook?
Then a cooking garden may be in your future. You will want
to try edible landscaping with herbs, spices, fruits, vegeta-
bles and native plants.
Reading your favorite book on a bench
or while swinging in a hammock under
a cool tree in the summertime is a won-
derful pastime. A literature garden may
be just the inspiration to spend more
time perusing the latest best seller. Cre-
ating a garden bursting with flowers,
shrubs and trees from the pages of liter-
ary classics like Greek mythology,
Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, and Fran-
ces Hodson Burnett can be very energizing and interesting to
meander through. Research is definitely in order to find the
plants utilized by authors in their writings. You will want to
make sure that the flora cited is appropriate for your zone.
Think back to a childhood moment, a once-in-a-lifetime
experience, or when you were the most happiest; were
plants, flowers, or gardens involved in your memories? For
me, when I incorporate those memories into my garden, I
find that I relax and enjoy the fragrances, the excitement of
the colors, and I even enjoy gardening chores more. It reju-
venates my soul, my energy and I feel more at peace.
Want to explore more gardening themes? You can check
out Themed Gardens and Gardening with the Arts on my
Florida Yards & Neighborhoods website at
http://cfyn.ifas.ufl.edu. There are a plethora of choices on
the website pages that range from holiday gardens, gardens
from around the world, musical gardens, and biblical gar-
dens, to children’s gardening, flowers, shrubs, and trees,
enough to fulfill anyone’s fantasy.
Let no one can receive no greater flattery than to have a gardener of equal intelligence stand before your plant and ask, "What is that?"
Volume 6, Issue 1- January - February - March 2007
When gardeners garden, it is not just plants that
gorw, but the gardeners themselves.
Secondly, planning your layout and analyzing garden beds
before planting is important. Deciding on a theme or purpose
for your garden will allow you to create a smart plan to
streamline your labors, and keep your budget under control.
How much space do you have? Where are your windows,
doors, and pathways? What traffic areas are already being
used in your yard? What kind of soil and sunlight are in your
Always try to grow in your garden some plant or plants out of the ordinary, something your neighbors never attempted. For you
yard?
Knowing the height your shrubs and perennials will eventu-
ally reach will help you purchase mature size-appropriate
plants. Low maintenance gardening means using plants that
won’t need high-maintenance pruning.
Traffic patterns such as how you bring your garbage cans to
the curb or what path you take to visit your neighbors are
important to incorporate into your design. There is nothing
more frustrating than to have to haul your full 50-pound
plastic garbage bin through your nice thick St. Augustine
grass, around the shrubs and flowers, to make your mornings
more hectic. Remember it’s important to not stress when
you’re in your yard, landscape, or garden, so smooth and
easily accessible walking areas are vital.
Soil conditions are important to a healthy landscape which
will ensure the success of your dream garden. After decid-
ing on a theme, analyze your soil pH; amend the soil if nec-
essary to create better moisture-retention and nutritious con-
ditions.
Ensure that your garden will receive adequate moisture es-
pecially in our drier seasons and during unexpected droughts
by installing an efficient watering system, i.e. micro-jet irri-
gation, rain barrels, cisterns. Make sure your irrigation sys-
tem is zoned properly – turf areas on one zone, garden beds
on a separate zone.
Pay attention to what kind of sunlight
in garden areas you have throughout the
day and throughout each season. Areas
with less than five hours of sunlight are
shade only planting beds, while five to
eight hours are partial sun/shade, and
eight or more hours are full sun plant-
ings only. Knowing your sunlight
ranges will help with water conserva-
tion, appropriate fertilizing, and keep-
ing your flowers abundantly blooming.
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Late February, and the air's so balmy snowdrops and crocuses might be fooled into early blooming. Then the inevitable blizzard will come,
Gardening With Soul
February
Can You Dig It?
One of the most favorite things to complain about here
in Florida is our sugar sand. “You call this soil?” Trans-
plants from other parts of the country used to black, rich
dirt cannot possibly imagine anything growing in our
sand.
It just doesn’t seem possible.
Yet our sand is not necessarily
a bad thing. How many of you
have ever dug in the rock and
clay in the zones further north of
Florida? Well, digging in our
sand is relatively easy and it does
provide for good drainage.
But, sugar sand is just not conducive to holding onto
nutrients or water. With our year- round warmer tem-
peratures that ensure rapid decomposition of the organic
materials in our soil, the organic components are usually
used very quickly. Thus, the need for more fertilizing, or
so we think. Fertilizing does provide nutrients to vegeta-
tion, but to give our shrubs and plants a good foundation
and start, we should provide organic rich soil.
February is mearly as long as is need to pass the time until March.
Research Suggests NOT Adding Organic Material To
Hole!
Most of the practices still being used today to provide
nutrients to our landscape are behind the times. We
usually dig the hole and place manure, top soil, or peat
moss in the hole, or a combination of all three organic
amendments. That has been the way we have always
been taught to do it. Through current research, we
have realized that this gardening practice is not nec-
essary. No longer do we advise landscapers and
homeowners to amend the soil in the hole of the tree or
shrub. It can actually hinder the growth of the plant’s
roots and/or create a high maintenance plant. Both of
which will eventually stress the plant.
The rich organic dirt is a great idea at first, and the tree
or shrubs seem to thrive in the generously rich material.
We really do think we are doing the best for the plant, but
as the tree’s roots start to spread out, the new root shoo
grows beyond the rich dirt and find the normal sugar
sand that awaits all the other surrounding roots.
size.
The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their
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blighting our harbingers of spring, and the numbed yards will go back undercover. In Floridait's strawberry season - shortcakes, waffles, berries and cream will be penciled
As this “babied” root system grows, it can back away from
the natural sandy soil and go in search of the organic soil.
This will eventually cause girdling or insufficient roots
to provide for healthy plants.
Best Management Practices
The best management practices of gardening now say that
if you have poor soil, to amend the entire garden bed
with equal parts of manure, top soil, and peat moss.
Do this a weekend or a few days before you plant. Add-
ing to the whole garden bed will allow the roots to adapt
very quickly and not encounter any surprises as it grows.
If you are digging a hole and have poor soil, do not fret.
The ornamental shrubs and trees in gallon containers, no
matter what size, are already planted in good earth at
the nurseries. As they outgrow their original pot size, they
will adapt easier to the terrain.
How Should You Dig The Hole?
1. When you take your new shrubs home, water them in
the pots well as you dig their holes. This will provide
moisture and help reduce shock.
2. Dig the hole two times the width, and same depth. The
same depth will allow the plant to
feel right at home and continue
breathing properly. The trunk of
the plant will be planted deeper
than it has grown used to, but the
width size will aerate the soil and
loosen it up to allow the roots to
spread easily. Planting your shrub
a few inches higher is also recommended if you are going
to be using 3” to 4” of mulch.
3. Turn the pot over with your hands, protecting the
plant from falling out. Squeeze the container bottom to
slide out the plant. If needed, cut the bottom with a knife
or shears. Carefully hold the plant upside down in your
hand. If you see lots of dirt and minimum root system,
there is no need to cut roots, just spread out the roots to
stimulate growth and place the plant carefully in the planti-
ing hole.
Continued on page 4
on the coffee shop menus.
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Gardening With Soul - Jan., 2007 - Continued

Are you dreaming about your garden yet? Or are you feeling like you could be getting into a nightmare? Don’t stress - it
may seem like these are just gardening chores reiterated over and over again, but in fact if you hired a landscape contrac-
tor to design the perfect garden for you, he or she would ask you these very questions and implement these gardening
basics for you. You would be paying for their expertise, time, and labor. To save money, you can implement the basics
yourself, as your budget permits, and in turn, be in control of all the details of your landscape. You don’t have to do it all
in one weekend, one season, or even one year. Your dream garden doesn’t need to be hundreds or thousands of square
feet. Start in a small corner of your yard, with an idea, a plan, a shovel and your favorite plants. As you grow more con-
fident in your designing abilities, you can expand your garden to reach the sky and venture into worlds far away.

Now close your eyes, grant yourself the wish to have a beautiful garden of your heart’s desire?
Dream big, you really do have everything you need to have your dream garden in Florida in 2007.

Gardening With Soul - Feb., 2007 - Continued Compost, whether its mushroom compost, or just your
backyard recycled leaves, make great soil amendments.
4. You may add a slow-release fertilizer in the hole at this
Adding it to your garden beds once or twice a year will help
time.
you reduce your labor while giving the landscape a much
needed boost. You will find that the need for fertilizer de-
5. Place the dirt back into the hole, watering well at the
creases when you use more organic amendments in your
same time, making sure no air pockets are left.
gardening beds. And that’s a good thing. For your pocket-
book and for Mother Nature.
For larger trees or ornamental shrubs, (larger than 3 gal-
lons) the methods are the same, except you don’t need to
turn the tree over into your hand and balance it while you
open the root system.

Just slide the tree into the hole, making sure you spread
out the root system adequately without causing too much
shock. Cutting any major roots will cause the tree or shrub
to experience more damage, so be prepared for leaf drop
or lack of blooms till it has recovered. Be patient during
this healing process.

Use vitamin B-1 or another low-analysis shock preventa-

tive to help reduce the time it takes for the transplant to
adapt.
Volume 6, Issue 1- January - February - March 2007
Florida Wildlife Calendar
January
• Good time for watching waterfowl
on wetlands, lakes, and prairies.
• Carolina yellow Jessamine blooms
in north and central Florida woods.
• Observe hawks and kestrels along
highways.
• During cold spells, manatees con-
gregate at natural springs and indus-
trial warm water sites.
• Gray foxes, bobcats, and raccoons at
peak of courtship and breeding this
month.
• Clouds of tree swallows roost at
sunset over large marsh systems.
• Snail kites begin courtship in central
Florida late this month.
• Cedar waxwings and robins are eat-
ing fruits such as holly berries.
• Male cardinals begin territorial sing-
ing later in the month.
• Black crappie start a feeding binge
in central Florida.
• Striped bass and sunshine bass
move into open water to feed on
shad.
• Black bears in north Florida are
sleeping in dens.
For more information on Florida Wildlife Calendar, go
to:http://www.floridaconservation.org/viewing/calendar/
February
• Purple martins scouts look over
north Florida nesting sites.
• Trilliums and dogtooth violets
bloom in Panhandle ravines.
• Clean and repair eastern bluebird
next boxes.
• Purple finches and pine siskins will
leave our Florida feeders and being
their migration back to northern
nesting areas.
• Nesting season begins for ospreys
in north Florida.
• Watch for manatees in spring runs.
• Snowy plovers start nesting.
• Wild turkeys and quail mate in
south Florida.
• Woodpeckers begin their mating
season and announce territories by
drumming on houses, telephone
polls, and other objects.
• Eastern moles are breeding this
month in tunnels under our lawns.
• Pocket gophers begin their spring
breeding season.
• First litter of gray squirrels born.
• Schools of Spanish mackerel roam
Florida Bay.
• Leatherback sea turtles begin nest-
ing on sandy beaches along the
southeast coast.
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March
• Carolina wrens begin nesting -
hang a gourd or open basket under
your eaves.
• Swallow-tailed kites return to Flor-
ida from South American wintering
areas.
• Frogs and toads move to ponds,
streams and ditches to breed fol-
lowing rains.
• Listen for newly returned Chuck-
will's-widows calling after sunset.
• Great blue herons may be seen on
their nests.
• Brown thrashers begin singing.
• Wood storks in central Florida be-
gin courtship and nesting.
• Hummingbirds return.
• Purple martins begin nesting.
• Pine Barrens
tree frogs
start calling.
• Chickasaw
plum and
crabapples
bloom in
north Flor-
ida.
FISH BITE:
Fossil research shows that tarpon have
been swimming in our oceans since
prehistoric times. Tarpon have a special
ability to gulp air at the surface when
they are in a habitat that doesn't provide
enough oxygen.
Tarpon
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May you always have walls for the winds, a roof for the rain, tea besides the fire, laughter to cheer you, those you love near you, and all your
Gardening With Soul
May you walt in sunshine. May you never want for more. May Irish angels rest their wings right beside your door.
March
Catch A Leprechaun
In Your Garden
There is no mention to be found of female
leprechauns in traditional Irish legend, so
as to how they came to be .. your guess is
as good as mine.
These apparently aged, diminutive men are
hard-working cobblers, turning out exquisite shoes for
other sprites. If you happen across an industrious little
fellow hammering out a shoe, look closely - for he may
be a leprechaun. Step quietly, for leprechauns will
avoid humans, knowing us to be foolish and greedy.
A leprechaun dresses in old-fashioned clothes of
green, with a red cap, multi-pocketed leather apron,
and buckled shoes. He is quite fond of a smoke from
his foul smelling clay pipe which is always close by,
and he is frequently in an intoxicated state from home-
brew poteen. However, a leprechaun never becomes
so drunk that the hand which holds the hammer
becomes unsteady and his shoemaker's work affected.
If you hear the sound of a hammer from behind a
hedgerow you know you have found him.
As well as cobbling, his other trade is banking, and he
is guardian to the ancient treasures. Much treasure
was left by the Danes when they marauded through
Ireland, and the leprechaun buries it in crocks or pots.
Rainbows reveal where pots of gold are hidden, so he
will sometimes spend all day moving crocks from one
spot to another to elude the tell-tale end of the rainbow.
If you catch a leprechaun, don't let him out of your
grasp before he reveals his gold. He'll try to distract
you with all manner of tricks and, in the blink of an eye,
will dash out of sight. For such a sturdy little chap, he
can move with the speed of a rabbit.
always have someone to squeeze.
He carries two leather pouches. In one there is a silver
shilling, a magical coin that returns to the purse each
time it's spent. In the other there is a gold coin for
bribing his way out of difficult situations. (Don't accept
this coin - it turns into a rock). But he can be generous
if you do him a good turn. Your kind deed will be repaid
with a wish.
Leprechauns come in two distinct groups - leprechaun
and cluricaun. A cluricaun dresses very stylishly with a
jaunty cap, large silver buckles on his shoes, beautiful
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heart might desire.
gold laces and pale blue stockings. You will never see
him wear an apron or carry a hammer. He has a jolly
grin, a slightly pink-tipped nose and is almost always
drunk and cheerful. Pass him by, for he never has any
money, or any idea where treasure is buried.
A cluricaun will steal or borrow almost anything,
making merry and creating mayhem in your house
during the hours of darkness. He will happily busy
May you have love that never ends, lots of money, and lots of friends. Health be yours whatever you do, and may God send many blessings to you.
himself raiding your kitchen, pantry, larder and cellar
and after dinner he will harness your sheep, goats,
dogs and even your domestic fowls to ride away.
Through the countryside he will race them, over the
fields and into the bog. Leprechauns denounce
cluricaun behavior, but it has been said that cluricauns
may just be leprechauns on drunken sprees.
You can make a trap with common household items.
Take a net, a cardboard box, green paint, green tissue
paper, some pennies and an old shoe. Firstly, paint the
cardboard box green and place the old shoe inside.
Cover the opening with thin green tissue paper.
Carefully lay the pennies on the tissue paper. (If you
don't want to use real money, you can easily substitute
chocolate gold- wrapped coins or make your own by
cutting circles out of cardboard and painting them
gold).
Place the trap near some
trees or hedgerows. Make
sure it's disguised well and
blends into the surround-
ings. When the Leprechaun
sees the coins he will try to
collect them. He will step
onto the tissue paper, it will break and he will fall into
the box. Now quickly throw the net over him.
You can also try to lure a leprechaun with some poteen
instead of an old shoe. When he falls into the box he
will drink the brew, get drunk and then you can grab
him.
No one has yet caught a leprechaun, but don't be
discouraged. Start looking today. Good luck !!
Volume 6, Issue 1- January - February - March 2007
Monthly Gardening & Planting Calendars
January 2007
Flowers: Alyssum, baby's breath, ca-
lendula, cleome, candytuft, carnation,
delphinium, dianthus, dusty miller, fox-
glove, gaillardia, geranium, godetia, hol-
lyhock, Iceland poppy, lobelia, nastur-
tium, ornamental cabbage & kale, pansy,
petunia, Shasta daisy, statice, stock and
sweet pea.
Vegetables: Asparagus, beets, broc-
coli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots,
cauliflower, celery, collards, endive,
horseradish, kale, kohlrabi, lettuce, mus-
tard, onion sets, peas, potatoes, radic-
chio, radishes, roquette, rutabagas, spin-
ach, Swiss chard and turnips.
Herbs: Anise, bay laurel, cardamom,
chives, coriander, fennel, garlic, ginger,
lavender, mint, oregano, parsley, rose-
mary, sage, sweet marjoram, thyme and
watercress.
Bulbs: African iris, Asiatic lilies, amaryl-
lis, blood lilies, crinum, day lilies, Louisi-
ana iris, society garlic, spider lilies, rain
lilies, refrigerated Dutch iris, tulips, daf-
fofils and hyacinths.
• Water lawns prior to freezing weather,
turn sprinklers off during a freeze.
• Delay major weed control a month or
two; hand pull or spot kill winter
weeds.
• Sow rye seed to temporarily regreen
brown or bare areas.
• Sharpen the mower blade.
• Move holiday gift plants to the patio
during warm days.
• Edge landscape beds & walkways.
• Trim seed heads and weak stems from
crape myrtles.
• Protect orchids from temperatures
below 45 degrees.
• Feed winter vegetables and herbs
monthly.
• Start seeds of spring flowers.
Thanks to Tom MacCubbin, Urban Horticultural Agent
February 2007
Flowers: Alyssum, aster, baby's breath,
bacopa, begonia, candytuft, carnation,
calendula, coneflower, coreopsis, cos-
mos, dahlia, delphinium, dianthus, dias-
cia, dusty miller, false heather, four
o'clock, gaillardia, gaura, gazania, gera-
nium, gerbera, godetia, Johnny-jump up,
licorice plant, lobelia, million bells, na-
sturtium, pansy, petunia, rose, salvia,
snapdragon, Stokes aster, sweet pea,
veronica and yarrow.
Vegetables: Plant through mid month:
beet, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, cel-
ery, collard, endive, kohlrabi, lettuce,
mustard, pea, potato, radish and turnip.
After mid month: bean, cantaloupe,
corn, cucumber, eggplant, luffa, pepper,
pumpkin, squash, tomato and water-
melon.
Herbs: Anise, basil, borage, chives, dill,
fennel, lemon balm, mint, oregano, pars-
ley, rosemary, sage, sweet marjoram,
tarragon and thyme.
Bulbs: African iris, Asiatic lily, amaryllis,
blackberry lily, blood lily, caladium,
canna, crinum, day lily, gladiolus, glori-
osa lily, Louisiana iris, society garlic,
spider lily, rain lily.
• Remove grassy weeds & apply a
preemergence crabgrass control by
mid-month.
• Begin new year feeds in late February.
• Start transplants of tomatoes, peppers
and eggplants.
• Till and enrich sandy soils with organic
matter before new plantings.
• Adjust the soil pH for blueberries to an
acid level.
• Prune citrus trees and grape vines.
• Feed all fruit producing trees, shrubs
and vines.
• Trim brown leaves and stems from
bananas.
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Orange County and www.betterlawns.com
March 2007
Flowers: African daisy, ageratum,
alyssum, bacopa, balsam, begonia,
black-eyed Susan, blue daze, bush
daily, celosia, cleome, coreopsis, cos-
mos, dahlia, dahlbery daisy, diascia,
dusty miller, four o'clock, gaillardia, ge-
ranium, goldenrod, impatiens, Joseph's
coat, licorice plant, marigold, melampo-
dium, millions bells, moon vine, morning
glory, nierembergia, salvia, strawflower,
torenia, verbena, vinca and zinnia.
Vegetables: Bean, calabaza, canta-
loupe, cassava, shayote, corn, cucum-
bers, dasheen, eggplant, Jerusalem
artichoke, jicama, luffa, malanga, New
Zealand spinach, okra, pepper, pump-
kin, southern peas, squash, tamarillo,
tomato and watermelon.
Herbs: Anise, basil, bay laurel, borage,
cardamom, chervil, chives, coriander,
costmary, dill, fennel, ginger, lemon
balm, sweet marjoram, Mexican tarra-
gon, mint, oregano, rosemary, sage,
thyme and watercress.
Bulbs: Achimenes, African iris, African
lily, amaryllis, blook lily, caladium,
canna, crinum, crocosmia, dahlia, day-
lily, eucharis lily, gingers, gladiolus, glo-
riosa lily, Louisiana iris, rain lily, tube-
rose and walking iris.
• Apply a complete lawn fertilizer with
little or no phosphorus.
• Substitute a weed & feed product for
the spring feeding if weeds are a
problem.
• Remove growing crabgrass and fill
the bare spots with sod.
• Return clippings to turf as you mow.
• Check for ever watering chinch bug
and mole cricket infestations.
• Complete pruning of roses and begin
monthly feedings.
• Feed vegetables every 2 to 3 weeks.
• Move tropical plants to landscape
after mid month.
Upcoming Florida Yards & Neighborhoods Workshops
January 25, 2007
Seminole County New Residents Workshop
UF/IFAS Seminole County Extension
250 West County Home Road, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. - FREE
For reservation 407-665-5551
March 29, 2007
FYN Orange County New Residents Workshop
UF/IFAS Orange County Extension
6021 S. Conway Rd., Orlando, FL
6:30 - 8:30 p.m. - FREE - Phone # TBA

February 22, 2007

FYN Lake County New Residents Workshop
UF/IFAS Lake County Extension
1951 Woodlea Road, Tavares, FL 32778-4407
6:30 - 8:30 p.m. - FREE - 352-343-4101.

Thanks to The Sponsors of the FYN Program

City of Altamonte Springs - Jim Wickert - 407-571-8560
City of Clermont - Alan Freemen - 352-241-7303
City of Eustis - Alton Roane - 352-483-5430
Lake County Water Authority - Pat Burgos -342-343-3777
City of Leesburg - Darel Craine - 352-728-9835
Seminole County - Marie Lackey - 407-665-5766
City of Mt. Dora - Mark Reggintin - 352-735-7112
Orange County Utilities Water- Eugenia Wright
407-254-9840
City of Sanford - Bill Marcous - 407-330-5649
City of Tavares - Susan Jackson - 352-742-6431
City of Winter Garden - Dennis Jones - 407-654-2732

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Water Only When You Need To!

Just because it’s your day to water doesn’t mean
you have to! Check out the chart below. Low lying
or shady areas may need only watering once a month.

October November December

Shrubs 1" every 7-10
1" every 5 - 7 days if no rain days

Groundcov- 1" every 7-10

Tuesday Mornings ers/Vines 1" every 5 - 7 days if no rain days

11:00 a.m. - Noon Flowers/Turf 1" every 7-10

1" every 5 - 7 days if no rain days

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