Plant Care Tips

While much of the country is shivering, Floridians are getting ready for growing season and the bountiful winter harvest to come. Florida, in fact, supplies much of the nation’s wintertime […]

Put down your pruning shears! Surrender your saw! The trees and shrubs in your yard may look dead in Hurricane Ian’s wake, but many of them are ready to spring […]

Dive into this primer with Aquatic Areas Manager Kathy Cahill, and learn how to create your own waterborne utopia. There’s a certain mystique about waterlilies, those stretching, arching dollops of […]

Lethal bronzing disease (LBD), formerly known as Texas Phoenix Palm Decline, is a devastating disease of palm trees. As the name suggests, lethal bronzing is fatal to about 19 palm […]

Hot sauce. Salsa. Paprika. What is the common ingredient? Pepper! No, not the black pepper found on your dining room table. What we’re talking about are the fruits from several plant species found in the genus Capsicum. Like their nightshade family cousins, tomatoes, these fruits are used and colloquially known […]

A couple of months ago, gardeners Lauren Hardy and Matt Herrman took stock of the Lea Asian Garden and decided it was time for a purge. Together with their colleagues […]