r/FloridaGarden

I seen that at home is selling moss garland for $15 lol so I walked to my backyard looked up and said yep, I can make that 😂 I found a couple of bendy dead vines and I’m gonna make it

As the title states, I am allergic to American Beautyberry. Every time I trim them the pollen goes through my nasal passages like a John Deer Combine in a Kansas Corn Field with the Harvest Moon Rising. I end up choking on mucus for hours. So I yoinked 4 of them this afternoon and the other three will go away next weekend.

I have a good mix of natives and Florida Friendly plants going on, but I am looking for something that provides some scent. Other than the Mango tree in January, the garden has no smell, unless you count Milorganite a smell. Any suggestions?

Does anyone have any idea what this vine growing in my Areca’s is?

Take a moment to relax and enjoy my Serenity garden

My husband is building me an arbor. It’s still under construction but the left side, with the horizontal slats, is finished. Now he’s going to put the same horizontal slats on the right side as well.

My plan is to plant a coral honeysuckle at each end with hopes of it vining up the sides and across the top. I know I’ll have to help it vine by fastening the branches to the slats. The man at the native plant nursery suggested also putting chicken wire over the slats on each end to help the plant vine.

What do you think? Would adding chicken wire make a difference in the growth of the coral honeysuckles?

I am on the beach with absolutely zero trees in NW Florida. This is my first summer in a raised bed. (Previously I grew in containers closer to the house.) I want to put up some shade cloth for the summer months. I have 70% on hand that I didn’t use for a different project- do you think that would block too much? (Pic for fun. :) It’s from a couple of months ago)

This was a volunteer and it sure looked like an eggplant. Now it’s huge and still looks like eggplant but no flowers. Is it something else? Should I wait or pull it up? Other eggplants are smaller and have all fruited.

I was away from my garden for a few weeks and came back to these monsters… One is tan, one light green. Both have a few insect holes but are mostly intact. I usually like to pick them young and use like zucchini. What should I do with them? Are they worth using or will they taste terrible?

Not sure why but I think it may be all the rain we've had? Too much water or something else jump out? They were healthy and green a couple weeks ago. Been a steady down slide since.

Seriously, is my Bismarck dead? 😂 We had a hard freeze this year and lost damn near everything. There appears to be some new green growth in the crown, but I can’t tell if it’s actually recovering or slowly giving up on life.
It’s about 18 feet tall, so checking the spear isn’t exactly an option unless someone wants to donate a bucket truck or a new spine.
I have a younger much smaller one that did fine.

Hi all! New to gardening. I bought this tropical sage from a plant sale a few days ago and it seems to be doing okay! The left most stem had no flowers on it when I bought it so I’ve been happy to see them.

However, the other two stems has had dead flowers. I’ve only done shallow research, without finding exactly what I should do with them. I’m thinking I should remove the “spent blooms” to encourage new flower growth but I don’t know exactly where to cut them. Is it right above the top most, healthiest leaves? Or do I just leave it be?

Thanks!

This one had a flat spot on it but tastes good. Same buttery texture and easy to remove seeds. The flesh was less orange.

The previous owners had this Versailles style landscaping with terrible rock beds and invasive plants. I removed all of the invasives other than these cypress trees, and decided to wrap Seminole pumpkins around them, very happy with the result.

Ok- I have been trying to grow these for several months. Finally figured out how to get them to germinate. But now they keep dying on me.

The second photo is one next to it that I transplanted at the same time and in the same bed.

I have them in mostly gardening soil. I think I am watering them properly. We are starting to finally get rain every day or two. They are in full sun.They start to flower and then this happens. This is the third one that did this. Any thoughts of what could be happening?

Found in Southwest Florida. It spells like what I remember epazote smelling like.

Ghosts, Trinidad Scorpions, and Habaneros

Parts of the leaves are extremely delicate/soft like wet paper and other parts look like they have a blister or something.

EDIT: Begonia not bougainvillia! My mistake lol. Can't edit the title now.