About

Florida's unique environment is full of possibility and challenge, and gardeners require a specialized skill set to succeed. Excellent books are available on the subject, but there are also a number of smaller publications, now out of print, that contain important articles of enormous value to locals.  The goal of The Florida Gardening Project is to make some of these articles available online, where they can be easily accessed by people who care about growing beautiful things in our home state.

Jenny Zoe Casey

Contributors

Mary Adams

• A Thorn Bush by Any Other Name

• At the Herb Garden with James Steele

• Camelia: The Rose of Winter

• Ever More Determined

• Fantastic Salvias

• Garden Like a Superhero

• Gardening in North Florida

• Landscaping for Lunch

• Poinsettia Trials

• Over the Fence: Kanapaha Botanical Gardens

• The Determined Gardener

Paula Biles

• The Good, the Better and the Spectacular—Waterlilies in Florida: The Basics

• Waterlilies in Florida

Monica Brandies

• Cut Your Lawn Down to Size

• Extend Your Living Space

• Good News for Hoya Fans

• Home and Garden: Working in Harmony

• Instant Harvest

• Settling Down for a Not So Long Winter’s Nap.

• Summer Blooming Herbs

• Summer Edibles

Karinluise Calasant

• All A-Flutter: Unusual Facts About Butterflies

• Grow Gingers!

• Orchid Bees

• The Flowering Tree Man

• Try a Heliconia — or Two!

Gretchen F. Coyle

• Don’t Take it Cereus.

• Prickly Pear Cactus.

Frederick B. Essig

• What’s in a Family? The Asteraceae

Marie Harrison

• Almost Twins

• Japanese Sedge: A Carex to Consider

Barb Henny

• Beets and Turnips

• Canned Vegetables

• City Kale versus Country Collards

• Embellishments

• .Hand Clippers

• Kohlrabi

• Nasturtium by the Numbers

• Plan for Gladiolus

• Predictable Pineapples

• Stephanotis floribunda

• Sweet Onions

• Take the “Can’t” Out of Cantaloupe

• Winter’s Harvest: Peas and Carrots.

Tom Hewitt

• A Novel Approach

• Controlling Your Passion

• Edible Flowers.

• Made in the Shade. 

• Pretty In Pink

• Protecting Our Giants

• The Garden of Tranquility

• The Garden of Well Being

• The Illusion of Space

• The King of the Basils

• The Path Less Taken: Secondary Pathways Ignore the Rules

• The Perfect Compromise

• The Potted Herb

• The Power of Purple

• The Real Butterfly Bush

• Torenia

Elwood Holzworth

• Lemongrass - L’Herb Citronelle

Dotti Hydue

• The Challenge of Sandy Soil

Bill Pitts

• A Tropical Garden in Zone 9

• Florida Gardening, 85 Years Ago

• Garden Junk

• Old-Fashioned French Marigolds.

• Practical Cottage Gardening for Florida

• Some of the Best Things in the Garden are Free

• Spanish Inspiration for Florida Patios

• Three Easy Gourmet Greens

Karen Smoczynski

• Define Your Garden’s Character with a Gate

Mission

Florida has a rich history of entrepreneurial gardeners who start grassroots publications in order to document and share what they’ve learned. It is our wish to make The Florida Gardening Project an online repository of these materials.

If you hold copyright to an article published in a regional magazine or newsletter that is now out of print, and want to contribute, please get in touch by emailing thefloridagardeningproject@gmail.com.