Green Gables

In this series of articles we explore how you can adapt your landscaping practices to better help the environment of Coral Gables.

2024

Jan  •  Feb

2023

June  •  July

plastics in food Green Gables February 2024 feature image

Good News on Environmental Plastics

HAPPY NEW YEAR! WOW. I can't get it together. There is so much happening. There is so much going on, including the election. How To Eat Less Plastic Photo: Sarah Anne Ward This was…
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Material World / Plant World

As usual. I am writing this a month ahead so at the moment I am in the throes of turning my place into Santa's Workshop and I'm going to make some cookies by the end of the week…
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Lets Talk About Fabulous Fungi, Wetlands and ID apps

It’s sum sum sum summer time!!! I’m writing this mid June and the mango season is fabulous. I’m picking up 7-8 mangoes every morning – big ones – yellow with a rose blush. My go to is blueberry…
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Do Something With Your Yard

I went out my side door just now to turn on the hose to water the roses and I got a surround of scent from a white old rose (Blush Noisette I think) on the trellis to my…
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Wonders of Nature

How can it be October! The year just raced by. As I write this Sept 12, we’ve been extremely lucky with the weather. Maybe a little hotter than usual, a little less rain maybe but no big storms…
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September Events

DARN!! It's September and I like summer! I guess we are good until daylight savings time goes away and its starts getting dark at 6pm. As I write this though, August 10, it’s been a really good summer—especially…
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About the Author

Linda Lawrence Waldron

Linda Lawrence Waldron currently writes the Green Gables column in Gables Living Magazine.  Linda chaired the Coral Gables Garden Club committee that established the  Coral Gables Library Butterfly Garden.

She is the author of the Coral Gables Library Butterfly booklet. It gives you the "how to’s" for having your own butterfly garden. 
Linda attended the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew, England School of Garden Design.

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