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The Right Plants for Dry Places
 By
the Suncoast Native Plant Society
Size 6" x 9", 128 pages, color photographs throughout, quick reference
guide, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-8200-0423-5, $14.95
Information about propagation
and cultivation of native species can be hard to come by. Field guides can
help to identify a plant, but they don't tell you how to grow it. This
guidebook, written for central Florida, tells how to identify, where to
use and how to take care of 46 native trees, shrubs, groundcovers and
vines. It also gives blooming and fruiting times, mature size, wildlife
value and vital information. Choose native Florida plants for your
landscape. It's a great way to celebrate our state's environmental
heritage, provide food and cover for wildlife, and conserve our natural
resources!
About the
Suncoast Native Plant Society...
The
Florida Native Plant
Society is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote
the preservation, conservation, and restoration of the native plants
and native plant communities of Florida. FNPS members throughout
Florida are organized into area chapters; the Suncoast Chapter
serves Hillsborough County.
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REASONS TO GROW NATIVE
- Central Florida
native plants are ideally adapted to central Florida soils
- Birds, butterflies
and other wildlife will be attracted to your garden
- You'll minimize the
need for fertilizers and pesticides that pollute our waterways
- Your plants won't
require as much maintenance, so you'll have more time to enjoy them
- Heat and humidity,
freeze and frost, dryness and drought will pose little problem for
your plants
- You'll be preserving
Florida's unique natural heritage
- You'll have the
pleasure of watching seasonal variations in your garden
- Once established,
your plants will seldom need supplemental watering—an important
feature in this thirsty state
- Your landscape will
be different and more interesting than your neighbors'
- And the best reason
of all—it's FUN!
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