LANDSCAPE AND GARDEN IDEAS FOR/IN FLORIDA
Iguanas eating your garden?
Yes, it’s a nightmare if you have a garden. Imported years ago, as pets,
iguanas have escaped or been released to nature and now are more than
well established in South Florida.
Iguanas are thriving in our
gardens and are eating them – foliage, flowers, and fruits.
In
some places is becoming really difficult to have any garden.
But
there are ways we can defend our gardens.
We can protect valuable
plants with cages or screen enclosures, install sheet metal around
palms, trees or doc’s pilings to prevent them from climbing (about 18
in).
And the last, but probably the most important way to protect
your garden is PLANT WHAT IGUANAS DON’T LIKE!
There isn’t any
“scientific” list of plants that iguanas for sure avoid or like, but we
went through a lot of garden forums and gathered all information from
people’s direct experience. We built two lists for you
• One list
with plants that iguanas love and eat and
• One list with plants
that they will, with any probability, avoid.
DOWNLOAD BOTH LISTS
AND, PLEASE, SHARE THEM WITH YOUR FRIENDS.
We also would appreciate if you could share with us your own experience
with iguanas in your garden. Through information from you we will be
able to build together an ultimate list of plants.
And have fun
with your gardens!
You may have happened to see tree trunks that have been painted
white. Well, probably not if you live in places where the winters are
mild, but certainly if you live in the north of Europe. In fact, I often
used to be surprised that I had never seen anyone in southern Italy
whitening tree trunks with lime the way they did every year in Poland.
At the beginning of winter, around December, my grandfather began
going round the orchard with a big bucket of slaked lime, and covering
the trunks of all the fruit trees with a thick white layer.
Phalaenopsis Orchids
Having an orchid at home is an amazing adventure. It’s a plant that don’t even seem to be real. It’s flowers can last weeks and weeks, sometimes even months.
According to the American Orchid Society, Phalaenopsis gender is the easiest one to take care of and to make it grow well.
