As our second year of Project Stay Planted closes, let’s take a moment to review the plants, lichen, and fungi participants found. We asked users to go outside and learn about the plants growing in their communities, […]
Most Wanted Invasive Species
Project Stay Planted is the only time we at the Garden are excited to see invasive plants! Exotic invasive plants that make it on the Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council’s […]
Get Growing! A Vegetable You Can Grow This Spring
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 […]
Trees of the Tropics in Bloom
You may be tempted to think that trees of the tropics are forever in full leaf. Not so! We have a number of deciduous trees — those that shed their […]
Talk About a Fall Cleaning
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 […]
#HatsInOurGardens: Reinventing a Seasonal Tradition
2020 may be the Year of COVID, but there’s another descriptor — a far more positive one — that can just as aptly define it. How about the Year of […]
