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...

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Remarkable resurrection ferns

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....

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