NATIVE GARDENS

A Not-for-Profit Night, Dress Rehearsal

June 8th, 2023

for the Coral Gables Garden Club

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The Royal Poinciana Festival

Sponsored by The Flowering Tree Society

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Articles

• Coral Gables Library Butterfly Garden Project (PDF)
• Fertilize Appropriately (PDF)
• Fertilizer Impacts South Florida Waterways
• Florida Friendly Landscape Options
• Giving Monarch Butterflies a Wing Up
• Green Gables Articles by Linda Waldron:
  • Chapter 1 – Your Yard Can Be Beautiful and Nature Friendly  (June '19)
  • Chapter 2 – Florida Friendly Landscaping Part 1 (July '19)
  • Chapter 3 – Florida Friendly Landscaping Part 2 (Aug '19)
  • Chapter 4 – Now the Fun Stuff–Creating a Habitat (Oct '19)
  • Chapter 5 – Doing your Yard with all Native Plants  (Dec '19)
  • Chapter 6 – All About Trees and How They Work  (Jan '20)
  • Chapter 7 – Wonderful Beautiful Birds (Mar '20)
  • Chapter 8 – Insects--Bees,Butterflies and More (May '20)
    • Creating Pollinator Pathways in the Built Enviroment (video)
  • Chapter 9 – It Isn't Just Dirt (Aug '20)
  • Chapter 10 – Designing Your Garden – Part 1
• Landscaping with Natives (PDF)
• Native Palms
• Outdoor Nature Apps
• Right Plant Right Place

Books

• All New Square Foot Gardening Book
• Attracting Birds to South Florida Gardens
• Birds of Fairchild
• Biscayne National Park
• Dry Tortugas National Park
• Enchanted Ground: Gardening with Nature in the Subtropics
• Fresh
• Key Biscayne
• Making More Plants
• Native Plant Gardening for Birds, Bees & Butterflies: Southeast
• Native Plant Gardening for Birds, Bees & Butterflies: Upper Midwest
• Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
• Story of Gardening
• The Scentual Garden: Exploring the World of Botanical Fragrance 
• The Encyclopedia of Cultivated Palm 
• The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll
• The Well-Tempered Garden: A New Edition Of The Gardening Classic
• Wild Things: The Return of Native Plants
• Your Florida Guide to Butterfly Gardening: A Guide for the Deep South

Conservation

• Adopt-A-Tree
• AmericanForests.org
• Butterfly Big Blog of Resources
• Butterfly World
• Coral Restoration Foundation 
• Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens
• FIU Environmental
• Florida Department of Environmental Services
• Florida Wildflowers and Butterfly database
• Green Gables: Insects – Bees, Butterflies and More (May 2020)
• Mangrove Restoration
• Miami Blue Conservation
• Miami Waterkeeper
• Penny Pines
• Regional Conservation Organization
• The Sierra Club
• The Villagers
• Tour of Mangroves in Miami (video)

Education

• Insect Effect
• Invisible Insects

Gardening Tips

• Amelia's Favorite Herb Site: How to Grow Herbs
• Edible South Florida
• Florida 4H Bug Club
• Florida Friendly Landscaping
• Florida vegetable gardening guide
• Gardening Tips from Costa Farms
• Master Gardener Program
• Miami Dade Extension Office
• Miami Dade Extension office Youtube Channel 
• National Wildlife Federation
• Papaya growing in the South Florida Landscape (PDF)
• Planting Calendar for South Florida
• South Florida Plant Guide
• Vegetable Gardening in South Florida