A welcome to April with joy for the year,

The winter has gone, the springtime is here…

~Phebe A. Holder, "An April Song"

I’ve been working on my garden. I had a new horizontal fence put up in the front yard, Planted roses, spirea, Dianella ‘Clarity Blue’, crocosmias, and lots of tomatoes, onions, and peppers. My blueberries have flushed out with their leaves. I think my Blueberry Gnome inspired them. My granddaughter took my faded light sky-blue capped gnome and repainted him. Bella did a great job, don’t you think?

Create A Gate Faux Every Garden!

An interesting way to add an entrance (or an exit) to your garden is to install a faux gate. Even if you don’t have a fence, a faux gate will create the illusion of an entrance.

I love the fragile looking and twiggy Bridal Wreath Spirea. The beautiful white flowers of Bridal Wreath Spirea are fragrant and last for a long time in March and April. Spirea is a must for woodland gardens, cottage, and butterfly gardens. This ethereal shrub is deciduous with bright gold, burgund

Canopy tree shall mean a species of tree that which normally grows to a mature height of forty (40) feet or more. (Florida ordinance) Builders and developers are mandated by municipal building codes to plant a determined amount of canop

What To Do In Your Backyard in April

Water Conservation Month Average temperature High 83 Low 60 Rainfall 2.42 inches Time to plant Vegetables: Calabaza, cantal

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Teresa Watkins, garden author, landscape designer, horticulturist, and radio personality, designed the landscape for the first certified "green home" in Florida. Her landscape company, Sustainable Horticultural Environments, designs unique, beautiful, and award-wining sustainable landscapes.

In the last 24 years, over 40,000 homeowners have attended Teresa’s landscaping talks and programs. Her garden programs range from the ABCs of landscaping and themed-landscapes of fairy gardens to xeriscaping.

Teresa, a 25-year radio show veteran on her award-winning garden show “In Your Backyard”, and now host of “Better Lawns and Gardens,” Florida´s most popular syndicated garden radio show on iHeart, iTunes, and multiple podcasts. She enjoys traveling and leading gardening tours annually, checking off incredible national and world gardens on her ‘bucket’ (pronounced ‘bouquet’) lists.

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