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  • Native Wildflowers and Other Ground Covers for Florida Landscapes
    Native Wildflowers and Other Ground Covers for Florida Landscapes
    In this engaging and authoritative guide, ecologist and avid gardener Craig Huegel offers valuable information to anyone interested in integrating native ground covers into an outdoor space. As many of the plants featured in this book are not frequently or adequately discussed elsewhere, this is a singular resource for homeowners and commercial growers alike.

    Beautifully illustrated with nearly 300 color photos, this handy book provides clear instructions on how to garden with more than 200 native plants, including ferns, grasses, and an abundance of wildflowers—all commercially available—that work well together in a wide variety of configurations.

    University Press of Florida, copyright 2012, ISBN 978-0-8130-3980-0.
    Price: $29.95
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  • Olive Pests of Concern for Florida
    Olive Pests of Concern for Florida
    This stunning 12" x 18" full-color poster showcases a detailed visual overview of olive pests of concern in Florida. The high-quality images on the poster are accompanied by names and descriptions of each pest, providing valuable information on the specific areas they target on olive plants. Ideal for educators, growers, and anyone interested in olive cultivation, this poster serves as an informative and visually appealing resource for pest identification and awareness.
    Price: $5.00
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  • Organic Methods for Vegetable Gardening in Florida - 2nd edition
    Organic Methods for Vegetable Gardening in Florida - 2nd edition

    In this guide, expert botanist Ginny Stibolt and Master Gardener Melissa Markham provide simple and accessible advice for successful vegetable gardening in Florida, where soil types vary, and cool-weather crops are grown right through the mild winters. They offer advice on what to do with over-abundant harvests, strategies for developing a community garden, and suggestions for opportunities beyond the home garden. They also address integrated pest management, appropriate raised-bed types, irrigation, seed saving, just-in-time harvesting, and food safety.

    This second edition is updated with the latest scientific knowledge and growing techniques; new crops for growers to try; more detail in the growing calendars separated by north, central, and south Florida regions; and color photos and illustrations throughout the text. Readers will appreciate this reliable resource that will help them and their families become more resilient by controlling some of their food from seed to table.

    From University Press of Florida
    By Ginny Stibolt and Melissa Markham; ISBN 978-0-8130-6876-3; copyright 2023

    Price: $29.95
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  • Organic Methods for Vegetable Gardening in Florida (1st ed)
    Organic Methods for Vegetable Gardening in Florida (1st ed)
    In "Organic Methods for Vegetable Gardening in Florida", expert botanist Ginny Stibolt and Master Gardener Melissa Contreras provide simple and accessible advice for successful, pesticide-free vegetable gardening. They offer suggestions for opportunities beyond the home garden, advice on what to do with overabundant harvests, and tips for developing a community garden. They also address pest management, appropriate bed types, irrigation, seed saving, proper harvesting, and food safety. This fully illustrated book is an invaluable guide for everyday gardeners as well as small farmers who wish to expand their operations to participate in farmers markets or CSAs. Published by University Press of Florida. ISBN: 978-0-8130-4401-9

    Original price: $24.95 

    New edition now available!

     
    Price: $12.48
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  • Ornamental Palm Horticulture (2nd edition)
    Ornamental Palm Horticulture (2nd edition)

    Clear and concise, Ornamental Palm Horticulture provides readers with all the information they need to know to successfully cultivate a variety of palms. Whether you grow palms commercially or for pleasure, this book will prove to be an indispensable resource. Featuring a comprehensive overview of palms complemented by a plethora of color photos, this book will appeal to commercial producers, landscapers, palm enthusiasts, and homeowners alike. A complete reference on palms, this book contains information on palm biology and propagation, environmental factors, nutrition, pests and diseases, container and field production, transplants, and recommendations for both indoor and outdoor use and maintenance of palms. 384 pages.

    Second edition, 2017, contains updated information about pests, diseases, germination, and more.

    Timothy K. Broschat, Alan W. Meerow, and Monica L. Elliott
    ISBN: 978-0-8130-6227-3

    Price: $39.95
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  • Plant This - Not That
    Plant This - Not That

    The plants you bring home from garden centers and nurseries may look beautiful in your landscape, but they might be invasive species that can escape your yard and quickly spread into other areas, becoming an ecological and economic nightmare.

    "Plant This - Not That" is an identification guide written by UF/IFAS Extension horticulture agents to help people find safe alternatives to invasive ornamental plants, including trees, shrubs, vines, and groundcovers. The guide also features an introduction to invasive plants, a list of resources, and a detailed bibliography for further study.

    Twenty-two full-color entries feature an invasive plant that is commonly found for sale, including its description, distribution and range, and ecological threat. Each of these bad actors is paired with a list of beautiful non-invasive alternatives to plant instead.

    "Plant This - Not That" is a handy thing to have when you're shopping for new plants. Combined with Florida-Friendly LandscapingTM resources, you can make informed decisions that will result in a beautiful landscape that grows in harmony with its natural surroundings.

    Tina McIntyre, Rachel Gutner, Sandra Wilson, and Morgan Pinkerton

    Dimensions: 6" x 4.5", 64pp.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Price: $14.99
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  • Poisonous Plant Identification poster
    Poisonous Plant Identification poster
    "Beyond 'leaves of three, don't touch me'!"—this vibrant 16" x 11" infographic poster is your guide to identifying poisonous plants like poison ivy, poison oak, poison sumac, and poisonwood. Learn how to recognize these caustic plants and what to do if you accidentally come into contact with them.

    Price: $5.00
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  • Pollinator Friendly Gardening
    Pollinator Friendly Gardening

    Want to do your part in helping your local pollinators flourish? Pollinator-Friendly Gardening makes it easy.

    Are you interested in growing a naturally healthy garden? How about ensuring that your local environment supports the survival and thriving of bees, butterflies, and birds? If you are a beekeeper, are you looking for the ideal plants to keep your colony happy? Pollinators such as monarch butterflies and bees are under threat, and more and more gardeners want to do all they can to create a hospitable space for them. That's where Pollinator-Friendly Gardening comes in. It identifies the most visible and beloved pollinators: bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds, as well as some more unlikely candidates such as ants, wasps, and beetles. It then explains the intriguing synergy between plants and pollinators. This vital information makes it a unique sourcebook to share the ways that anyone can make a yard a more friendly place for pollinators. Plant selection, hardscape choices, habitat building (both natural and manmade), and growing practices that give pollinators their best chance in the garden are all covered in detail. Plant lists organized by category, helpful tips, and expert spotlights make it a fun and easy book to read too.

    By Rhonda Fleming Hayes, ISBN 9780760349137, 176 pages.

    From Voyageur Press

    This was a previous selection for the Florida Master Gardener Volunteer Book Club.
    Price: $25.99
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  • Propagating Fruit Plants in Florida
    Propagating Fruit Plants in Florida
    REVISED!
    Discover the secrets of propagating tropical and subtropical fruit plants with ease! This hands-on guide, tested in the field, walks dooryard growers through step-by-step processes for grafting, budding, layering, and cuttings. Updated and improved, this new edition of a perennial favorite features over 50 vibrant full-color photos to enhance your learning experience.
     
    Mercy Olmstead, Jose Chaparro, Patrick Conner, Tim Crocker, and Mike Young
    Price: $6.00
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  • Soil Science for Gardeners
    Soil Science for Gardeners

    From New Society Publishers:
    This book is an accessible, science-based guide to understanding soil fertility and, in particular, the rhizosphere - the thin layer of liquid and soil surrounding plant roots, crucial for plant health.
    Robert Pavlis, a gardener for over four decades, debunks common soil myths, explores the rhizosphere, and provides a personalized soil fertility improvement program in this three-part popular science guidebook.

    Coverage includes:

    • Soil biology and chemistry and how plants and soil interact
    • Common soil health problems, including analyzing soil's fertility and plant nutrients
    • The creation of a personalized plan for improving your soil fertility, including setting priorities and goals in a cost-effective, realistic time frame
    • Creating the optimal conditions for nature to do the heavy lifting of building soil fertility

    Written for the home gardener, market gardener, and micro-farmer, Soil Science for Gardeners is packed with information to help you grow thriving plants. 

    By Robert Pavlis, ISBN 978-0-86571-930-9, copyright 2020
    Price: $21.99
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  • Storey's Guide to Keeping Honey Bees
    Storey's Guide to Keeping Honey bees
    by Malcolm T. Sanford and Richard E. Bonney 

    Second edition revised and in full color!
    These 200+ pages overflow with full color pictures, illustrations, detailed advice and even some recipes.  Whether you are a beginner or experienced beekeeper, this book places at your fingertips the history of honey bee evolution and beekeeping, necessary and recommended equipment, and techniques to manage a colony, including population cycles and harvesting.  Learn to protect your colony from diseases and pests, as well as write a pollination contract and a model beekeeping ordinance for your community. From Storey Publishing. 2nd edition, 2018.
    Price: $24.95
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  • Sustainable Gardening for Florida
    Sustainable Gardening for Florida
    Gardeners today face a unique challenge: how do you create a beautiful, thriving landscape without environmentally harmful fertilizers, pesticides, and water use? Sustainable Gardening for Florida might be the first place to look for answers. This book provides interesting, money-saving ideas to reduce your ecological footprint. It includes chapters on composting and mulching, integrated pest management, water-wise irrigation and rainwater harvesting, preparing your garden for disasters, and all aspects of managing meadows, lawns, trees and shrubs, edible gardens, rain gardens and waterfront gardening. Also includes a glossary and list of plants. 325 pp. Published by University Press of Florida. Half of all royalties from sales of this book will be paid directly to the Florida Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.
    Price: $24.95
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  • The Art of Maintaining a Florida Native Landscape
    The Art of Maintaining a Florida Native Landscape
    Planting a native landscape in Florida will reduce your use of water, fertilizer, and pesticides, but that doesn't mean it will be maintenance-free. This refreshingly honest book offers practical advice for keeping your native landscape healthy and sustainable throughout the year. Acclaimed author Ginny Stibolt, an experienced gardener and botanist, dispels the myths of working with native plants and delves into topics such as removing invasives, propagation techniques, managing edges, going without mowing, and landscaping in moist habitats. Easy-to-read and supplemented with photos, illustrations, and useful tips, this book is a must-read for novices and advanced gardeners alike. 270 pp.



    Price: $24.95
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  • Develop Your Green Thumb and Care for Your House-Plant Family
    The New Plant Parent: Develop Your Green Thumb and Care for Your House-Plant Family
    From Abrams Image:
    For indoor gardeners everywhere, Darryl Cheng proposes a new way to cultivate healthy houseplants. He teaches the art of understanding a plant's needs and providing it with a suitable environment, balancing light, water, and nutrients. After reading Cheng, indoor gardeners will become less passive followers of care rules for each species and more confident, active growers, relying on observation and insight. In the process, plant owners become plant lovers, developing a deep bond with these beautiful living things through a simple love and appreciation of nature.

    This book covers all the basics of growing houseplants, from finding the right light to everyday care tasks like watering and aerating, as well as choosing containers and recommended species. Cheng's friendly tone, personal stories about maintaining and propagating different plants, and accessible photographs imbue his book with the same generous spirit that has made @houseplantjournal, his Instagram account, a popular source of advice and inspiration for thousands of indoor gardeners.

     

    By Darryl Cheng, ISBN 978-1-4197-3239-3, copyright 2019.

    Price: $27.50
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  • Histories and Mysteries of the Cabbage Palm
    The Palmetto Book: Histories and Mysteries of the Cabbage Palm
    From University Press of Florida:
    The palmetto, also known as the cabbage palm or Sabal palmetto, is an iconic part of the southeastern American landscape and the state tree of Florida and South Carolina. In this book, Jono Miller offers surprising facts and dispels common myths about an important native plant that remains largely misunderstood.

    Miller answers basic questions such as: Are palms trees? Where do they grow historically? When should palmettos be pruned? What is swamp cabbage, and how do you prepare it? Did Winslow Homer's watercolors of palmettos inadvertently document rising sea levels? How can these plants be both flammable and fireproof? Based on historical research, Miller argues that cabbage palms can live for more than two centuries. The palmettos that were used to build Fort Moultrie at the start of the Revolutionary War thwarted a British attack on Charleston - and ended up on South Carolina's flag.

    Delving into biology, Miller describes the anatomy of palm fronds and their crisscrossed leaf bases, called bootjacks. He traces the underground "saxophone" structure of the young plant's root system. He explores the importance of palmettos for many wildlife species, including Florida Scrub-Jays and honeybees. Miller also documents how palmettos can pose problems for native habitats, citrus groves, and home landscapes.

    From Low Country sweetgrass baskets to Seminole chickees and an Elvis Presley movie set, the story of the cabbage palm touches on numerous dimensions of the natural and cultural history of the Southeast. Exploring both the past and present of this distinctive species, The Palmetto Book is a fascinating and enlightening journey.

    By Jono Miller, ISBN 9780813066806, 302 pages.

    Price: $28.00
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  • Tomato and Pepper Insects Identification Deck
    Tomato and Pepper Insects ID Deck
    Tomato and Pepper Insects is an identification deck designed to help you distinguish between the helpful and harmful insects you might encounter on your tomato and pepper plants. Color photographs provide the detail you need to determine whether you are observing a helpful or harmful organism. This differentiation will assist you in practicing integrated pest management (IPM), enabling you to manage harmful organisms while preserving the helpful ones.

    Some harmful insects covered include aphids, thrips, whiteflies, leafminers, mole crickets, pepper weevils, beet armyworms, hornworms, and tomato fruitworms. Some helpful insects include the brown lacewing, green lacewing, lady beetles, minute pirate bug, Larra wasp, and parasitic wasp.

    This ID deck serves as a companion to the Grower's IPM Guide for Florida Tomato and Pepper Production, available for free online at  http://ipm.ifas.ufl.edu/resources/success_stories/T&PGuide/index.shtml

    Price: $12.00
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  • Transforming Florida Yards: A Regional Food Forest Guide
    Transforming Florida Yards: A Regional Food Forest Guide
    From Pineapple Press:
    Transforming Florida Yards offers readers a way to easily grow edible plants by creating a natural ecosystem. All one needs to successfully begin their food forest is a lawn and this book! Knowing which plants grow in each part of the state (north, central, and south) simplifies steps to create a flourishing garden. Permaculture, or the process of working with nature rather than against it, teaches affordable, sustainable, and research-based ways to beautify surroundings. Backyard gardens also lower the risk of food insecurity and help prepare communities for continuous climate change.

    Thanks to ample rainfall and warm temperatures, Florida is the perfect state for growing produce, herbs, and other edibles year-round. Most plants in a food forest are long-lived and low maintenance. Often, food forests even take care of their own fertilization and pest control!

    Empowered with easy-to-follow, one-page reference sheets for 200 plants (with corresponding hardiness zone, recipes, cultural information, and landscaping design tips), readers will quickly watch their lawns transform into a gorgeous, yet edible paradise.

    By Amanda Pike, ISBN 978-1-68334-329-5, copyright 2023.


        
    Price: $29.95
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  • Vegetable Gardening in Florida
    Vegetable Gardening in Florida
    From James Stephens, the founder of the Master Gardener Program, comes the ultimate resource for successfully cultivating vegetables in Florida. Whether you're nurturing beans, tomatoes, herbs, or any other crop native to Florida, this comprehensive guide will lead you through every step of the process, from site selection and insect management to the bountiful harvest and proper storage of your produce. Complete with practical planting guides, helpful gardening measurement conversions, and invaluable organic gardening insights, this fully illustrated handbook is essential for both novice and experienced gardeners alike. With 135 pages of expert advice, you'll have everything you need to cultivate a thriving vegetable garden in the Sunshine State.
    Price: $18.95
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  • Wildflowers of Florida Field Guide
    Wildflowers of Florida Field Guide
    From Adventure Publications:

    Explore Florida's stunning wildflowers with this comprehensive field guide featuring 200 exquisite species!
    -Conveniently organized by color and size for effortless identification
    -User-friendly icons for quick reference and easy visual identification
    -Stunning full-page, professional-quality photographs for each wildflower
    -Clear and concise format presenting essential information for accurate identification
    -Highlights the most common wildflowers found in Florida

    Authored by acclaimed entomologist Jaret C. Daniels in collaboration with Stan Tekiela.

    428 pages. ISBN 978-1-59193-252-9.

     

    Price: $16.95
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  • Your Florida Guide to Bedding Plants
    Your Florida Guide to Bedding Plants

    From University Press of Florida:

    Gardening in Florida presents unique challenges due to its diverse climate and soil conditions. This comprehensive guide addresses the specific needs of gardeners across the state, providing expert advice tailored to different regions. Discover essential techniques and tips to:

    • Design attractive beds with easy-to-follow landscape plans
    • Place and use over 70 bedding plants with the at-a-glance photo reference
    • Garden successfully in coastal areas
    • Prevent and cope with plant pests and diseases
    • Create hanging baskets, fragrance, and cutting gardens

    By Robert J. Black and Edward F. Gilman, ISBN 0813016428, copyright 1998.

    Price: $18.95
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