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Friday, 31 July 2015

Conservation, Ecosystem gardening, ferns, Florida, Ginny Stibolt, native plants, Pollinators, Wildlife

Listening to your landscape

To have a more sustainable landscape, you need to listen...As a long-time gardener with a masters degree in botany, I was certain that I could garden in north Florida when my husband and I moved here in 2004. I've told this story before, but I was shocked and surprised at how wrong I was. Some Florida...

Friday, 6 March 2015

Conservation, ferns, Florida, Ginny Stibolt, native plants

Remarkable resurrection ferns

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Resurrection ferns dried and hydrated.Resurrection fern (Pleopeltis polypodioides)While I'd seen spare populations of resurrection ferns when I lived in Maryland, I really became aware of them when I read "Light a Distant Fire," an historic novel about Osceola and the Seminoles by Lucia St. Clair Robson....

Saturday, 21 February 2015

Conservation, Ecosystem gardening, Florida, Ginny Stibolt, Invasive plants, native plants

Winter: a good time to remove invasive plants

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Wedelia or creeping oxeye daisy (Sphagneticola trilobata): a beautiful invader. Less lawn...When we moved into our house here in North Florida, we let several areas of lawn grow out. I've written about this several times. See From lawn to woods: a retrospective, for what has happened out front.Here's...

Monday, 29 December 2014

Conservation, Ecosystem gardening, Florida, Garden writing, Ginny Stibolt, Growing edibles, native plants

A wish for a greener 2015

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I wish you and yours a wonderful and bountiful New Year!!A frosty reddish leaf lettuce.Winter vegetablesHere in Florida, even here in North Florida where we receive several killing frosts each winter, we can grow most cool weather crops right through the winter. In most of the country, gardeners spend...

Monday, 24 November 2014

Conservation, Ecosystem gardening, Florida, Ginny Stibolt, Growing edibles, native plants, Pollinators, Wildlife

Yard critters

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A green treefrog (Hyla cinerea) jumped out of the beggar ticks (Bidens alba) that I had pulled from the front garden.A bagworm (Oiketicus abbotii) is overwintering on a beautyberry bush.Managing exuberance carefullyI allow some beggar ticks (Bidens alba) and snow squarestem (Melanthera nivea) to...

Monday, 29 September 2014

Conservation, eco-activism, Ginny Stibolt, Growing edibles, Sustainability

Cole crops

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Don't plant too many cabbages at one time.While they are easy enough to grow, do you and your family need 20 of these beauties all at once?Do you know cabbage? Cole crops are all the cabbage crops derived from a single species of Brassica oleracea. (Kohl is the German word for cabbage.)The cultivars...

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