Thanks to the Collier County Master Gardeners for the opportunity to talk about my favorite topic: Growing vegetables. […]

New Plant Book!

I thought my library of about 200 plant books was enough. Then my friend Cullen Walker (owner of […]

Bok Tower Gardens

Miniature Garden (o.k., Fairy Garden too)

My wife and her sisters wanted to give another sister a special gift for her birthday. They started […]

FNGLA Annual Convention, June 20, 21, 2014

How I spent the first day of summer: at FNGLA’s annual convention. Robert Olinger, his wife Mary and […]

Garden Bench

Cypress bench, Jacksonville botanical garden. The source of my inspiration.

Stack of rough cypress lumber bought from Florida Cypress, Jacksonville.

Java Plum board with pecky cypress plank.

Pecky cypress cut to fit as bench back.

Weathered gray. There are about 50 rings here.

I felt like a dummy, preserving a board that is over 100 years old.

Java Plum boards have red/mahogany tint.

Danish oil intensifies the grain.

These armrests came from the same Live Oak plank.

Again, the oil improves the contrast of the grain. I left the dark weathering on parts.

Experimenting with the back placement.

I drilled and counter-sunk every screw and bolt. I used stainless steel decking screws on the seat. Ceramic coated lag bolts on the frame.

Finished project.

Cool see through knot.

Thanks to FNGLA for the inspiration. During our annual meeting last month we toured the Jacksonville Zoo/Botanical Garden. In […]

Jacksonville Zoo Botanical Garden

Welcome: 100 years old, 125 acres.

A little fuzzy through 1 1/2″ glass

Flavidorivens bamboo.

Involving all the senses: Society Garlic.

A savannah made of various ornamental grasses.

Yes, they’re real flamingoes.

Exfoliating bark of a crepe myrtle.

Seabreeze bamboo tolerates some flooding.

Looks like bamboo…it is hand painted, corrugated metal roof.

A fun place for all. They placed fairy garden miniatures throughout.

Even the ticket booth has a green roof.

Pecky cypress bench. A local sawmill donated this wood.

Cool in the shade of bamboo…imagine the sound of a breeze here.

Who needs a wall with a window when you have podocarpus?

Westringia is a drought tolerant, low maintenance shrub.

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Cardboard Palm

U.F. Extension, Apopka Bedding Plants

Disney’s Nursery Flower Trials, May, 2015

Epcot’s Flower Festival, Orlando, May, 2015

Vegetable Gardening in Naples