Florida-Friendly Landscaping 101
You don’t have to be an expert gardener or landscaper to create a Florida-friendly yard. All it takes is a willingness to learn and a desire to build a beautiful yard that helps protect Florida’s...
View ArticleFlorida city may ban 3 invasive trees
The Satellite Beach City Council is going after three species of invasive trees. The council unanimously approved an ordinance banning Brazilian pepper, Australian pine and melaleuca trees from all...
View ArticleWilt disease spreading, killing native Florida trees
A microscopic beetle is beginning to devastate native Southwest Florida trees, and the bug could eventually turn its sights on the avocado industry. The redbay ambrosia beetle is not quite 2...
View ArticleStorm damage hits Central Florida
In Lake County Thursday, crews are busy cleaning up after a nasty night of storms. The Thursday evening storms took down several big trees near downtown Tavares. “Typical of what we get this time of...
View ArticleDisease putting Florida’s palm trees at risk
The beautiful palm trees you see in your neighborhood could be gone soon, WFTV reports. A plant disease called Fusarium is spreading in central Florida and “there is no turning back,” horticultural...
View ArticleOlive-tree farmers take root in Florida
In recent years as the number of citrus groves has declined, researchers have found success with alternative crops — such as grapes, blueberries, peaches and now olive trees — that do well in the sandy...
View ArticleWATCH: Gigantic 100-Pound Beehive Removed from Florida Tree
A gigantic beehive, swarming with thousands of bees, was removed from a tree at a family’s home in Orlando, Florida. The bees were relocated elsewhere and the hive was melted down, according to ABC...
View ArticlePlanting and Caring Tips for your Avocado Tree
The Avocado is not your typical fruit because it eats like a vegetable. In Florida, it is often called the Alligator Pear because of the fruit’s shape and rough textured skin. All Avocados are self...
View ArticleFrom a rare Florida tree, genes to regrow forest of ancient giants
ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) – An experiment in regrowing forests of the world’s oldest trees led environmentalists this week to climb a nine-story tall, 2,000-year-old cypress in central Florida known as...
View ArticleFlorida runner mistakes snake for tree branch
A Florida resident was running at Robinson Preserve Park, in Bradenton, when they thought they saw a fallen tree branch. After a second look, the runner discovered the branch was actually a boa...
View Article7-ton tree crashes into South Tampa home
There was some wild weather during Friday’s thunderstorm that proved to be dangerous in some areas. In South Tampa along San Juan Street, a huge tree came crashing through an engaged couple’s home. The...
View ArticleRare video shows hungry manatee eating from tree at Three Sisters Springs
CRYSTAL RIVER — Volunteer Kathy Lemmer was telling a group of onlookers last month about Three Sisters Springs, explaining its hydrology and history with manatees, when one of the lumbering oafs...
View ArticleTampa Bay feeling the symptoms of an intense allergy season
Sneezing? Coughing? Feeling a slight tickle in your throat? There’s a reason: Tree pollen is upon us. The Tampa Bay region is in the midst of a “very severe” allergy season, said Dr. Richard Lockey, an...
View ArticleDamage from Pasco storm assessed
At about 12:30 a.m. Friday morning, Tom Ryan awoke to a noise he never will forget.“It’s hard to describe. It was like screaming steel,” he said. “It brought me right out of my bed.”The sound was the...
View ArticleFlorida citrus growers: 80 percent of trees infected by greening
Florida’s citrus growers say as much as 90 percent of their acreage and 80 percent of their trees are infected by the deadly greening disease, which is making a huge dent in the state’s $10.7 billion...
View ArticleBright Yellow Flowers Fill South Florida Thanks To Tabebuia Tree
Springtime in South Florida means the bloom of those little yellow flowers on trees across the region. Those are tabebuia trees (pronounced tah-beh-BOO-ya). We spoke with Lee County Horticulture Agent...
View ArticleCloning will give Second Chance to Florida’s Famous Liberty Tree
The non profit organization plans to clone Florida’s oldest Bald Cypress tree Lady Liberty before the iconic species dies out. With a trunk 10 feet thick and height of nearly 90 feet, the surviving...
View ArticleFlorida Alert: Police Rescue Woman Who Got Stuck in a Giant Tree
While most people spent Sunday brunching with their families in honor of Mother’s Day, one Florida woman used the afternoon to reconnect with a different type of maternal figure: Mother Nature. After...
View ArticleTampa Bay woodworkers use local trees to make furniture and art
Slabs of wood fill up shelves and are leaned against every wall and propped up on sawhorses. She stands at a 9-foot wedge of Indian Rosewood, often used to make guitars and considered the Cadillac of...
View ArticleOff the couch and into the trees
“I’m not a tree hugger,” Fulmer said. “I’m a high-tech guy. But trees are what give us oxygen. Trees are important.” So to help people appreciate nature, Fulmer plans to build a cafe in a wooded spot...
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