Possible photos and captions for Sustainable Gardening for Floridaby Ginny Stibolt |
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1) Rain lily and net veined chain fern in a rain garden. |
2) The traditional southern magnolia in the morning light. |
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3) Royal fern graces the edge of this pond |
4) Florida is a great place to grow your own vegetables.
5) This hornworm with brachiod wasp larvae. |
6) The delicate wild azalea produces quite a show in the spring. |
7) Butterfly weed thrives in either dry or damp meadows. |
8) Rain lilies and blue-eyed grass grace a narrow rain garden. |
9) Rain lilies and blue-eyed grass grace a rain garden. |
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10) Even in a small space, like this St. Augustine balcony, you can have a fabulous garden using containers. |
11) A graceful container with impatiens and ferns dresses up the area next to a pond. Both plants in this arrangement thrive in the shade and with moist soil. |
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12) This bird-friendly yard provides meadows, nectar-rich flowers (supplemented by sugar water), and habitat for nesting, and hiding. |
13) Brazilian pepper, an invasive exotic plant, has cost Florida's tax payers millions of dollars in an effort to remove it from important ecosystems such as the Everglades. |
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14) A series of rain barrels supplies water for this potting bench area and for many other landscape uses. An overflow hose installed in each barrel carries the excess water into the next barrel or to the watering can. |
15) A screen-covered basket sits in the top of the first rain barrel in a series. The screen keeps out mosquitoes and tree junk. |
16) A closed rain barrel system with a diverter that gathers water from a downspout until the barrel fills. The water then rises in the pipe and rises |
17) The parts for a rain barrel diverter made from a plastic container and some plumbing parts for a closed system where the extra water is directed back into the downspout. The two wide pipes go in the bottom of the container to form the through pipe. |
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18) A French drain and the adjacent garden will be covered with a layer of mulch. The weed barrier cloth will keep the soil away from the cloth-covered pipe. This will collect the stormwater that falls on the driveway and direct it to a rain garden. |
19) A green spider captures a beetle on the sunflower head. Integrated pest management allows bugs and their predators to reach a balance. |
20) Hurricanes regularly wreak havoc in Florida's landscapes. Preparing for disaster by choosing wind-resistant trees and by pruning might reduce some of the damage. |
21) Red mangroves, plants with their own stilts, create a tangled structure that adds to the stability of Florida's shorelines and creates habitat for fish and other wildlife. |
22) Butterfly gardens not only add to your enjoyment, but they play an important role in Integrated Pest Management. |
23) Two monarch worms eat the milkweed leaves. Butterfly gardeners hope for a moth (and butterfly)-eaten landscape. |
24) When you use shredded trees from arborists in your neighborhood it's sustainable on many levels: you don't use gas to buy it, the arborist doesn't spend gas to take it to the dump, and no energy is used to package it. If there are larger pieces, lay them first on a path to better fight the weed invasion. |
25) Palms don't have annual rings and can't heal themselves like other trees do. Their woody structure is generally more flexible than other trees. |
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© Ginny Stibolt 2004 -2008
Website by www.sky-bolt.com
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