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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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  • 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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  • Florida Butterfly Gardening
    Your Florida Guide to Butterfly Gardening
    By Jaret C. Daniels

    In this easy-to-use and brightly illustrated introductory guide, lepidopterist Jaret Daniels shows beginners how to create a haven for butterflies and other flower-loving wildlife in Florida and throughout the Deep South.

    Updated in this second edition with new photographs and expanded to include additional species of butterflies, Your Florida Guide to Butterfly Gardening offers a thorough look at Florida's most common garden butterflies and the plants they prefer for food, shelter, and egg laying. It helps you select plants for a yard where butterflies can live and return year after year. The book features garden layouts designed for Florida's major growing zones and also suitable for gardens in neighboring southern states.

    Full-color images show common butterflies and their caterpillars, as well as food plants and host plants. Daniels also discusses current environmental threats to butterfly species, with a special focus on the monarch butterfly, describing how humans can play an important role in sustaining native wildlife populations and promoting biodiversity through our yards and home gardens.

    From University Press of Florida, ISBN 978-0-8130-6853-4, copyright 2022.
    Price: $24.95
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  • Your Florida Guide to Perennials: Selection, Establishment, and Maintenance
    Your Florida Guide to Perennials: Selection, Establishment, and Maintenance
    Whether you are just gaining an interest in perennials or have a long-time appreciation for them, this fourth book in the popular Your Florida Guide to... series will become a valuable gardening resource. Perennials provide extended seasons of color that enhance any landscape. With Your Florida Guide to Perennials, you will recognize old favorites and be introduced to gorgeous new varieties to add to your garden's plant palette.

    Sydney Park Brown and Rick Schoellhorn, with a combined 30 years of horticulture experience, offer a variety of ways to select and enjoy perennials, such as fragrance, season of color, drought tolerance, shade tolerance, and wildlife attractants. They provide information not currently available to either consumers or industry professionals on perennial selection, use, and care.

    Over 250 perennials are featured in a user-friendly format that includes a plant identification color wheel, sidebars, and nearly 200 full-color photos for easy identification. Gingers, begonias, and salvias are given special treatment with pages devoted to these large and diverse plant groups. All the major climatic zones in Florida are covered along with success tips for each zone. Native species are noted.

    144 pages.
    Price: $18.95
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