Lawn & Garden Publications
This section of our website lists publications and fact sheets produced by the Faculty and Staff of the Miami-Dade County Extension office--grouped by program area. Some of these publications are provided in HTML (web) format; others are in PDF format; and some are in both formats. At the very bottom of this page is a list of links to additional articles located on the University of Florida's EDIS website. Unless otherwise noted, all publications are in .pdf format. Some file sizes may be over 1MB in size, and take several minutes to download via a dial-up connection.
Home Landscaping and Gardening Publications
Palms/Cycads
- Palm Pruning (Flash movie)
- Nutrition and Fertilization of Landscape Palms
- Some small durable palms for Miami-Dade
- You too Can Learn to Read Palms
- Edible Palms and Their Uses
- Phoenix Palms for South Florida
- Growing True Date Palms in South Florida
- Cycads in the South 'Florida Landscape
- Cycads for South Florida (online slideshow)
- Healthy Palms in Healthy South 'Florida Landscapes'
- Inappropriate & Underutilized Palms for South Florida
- Palms for South Florida (online slideshow)
- Field Diagnosis of Diseases in Landscape Palms
- Nutrition and Fertilization of Landscape Palms
- African Palms and Cycads for the Miami-Dade Landscape
Trees/Shrubs/Hedges
- Staying Green while conserving water in Miami
- Nightime Fragance for your Miami-Dade Garden
- Adding day time fragance to your Miami-Dade landscpe
- Shrubs for your Miami-Dade Hedge
- More drought tolerant trees with edible fruit
- Drought tolerant trees with edible fruit
- Flowering Vines: There's Space for at Least One in Every Miami-Dade Yard
- Proper Tree Pruning Video
- Non-Native Trees for Miami-Dade: Shade, Color and Conserving Water
- South Florida Native Trees for Miami-Dade: Shade, Color and Conserving Water
- Staying Green while Conserving water in Miami-Dade County: Choosing Flowering Shrubs
- A Selection of Less Familiar Red Flowering Shrubs for Miami-Dade Landscapes
- Tree Planting: A Quick Guide for Homeowners
- Flowering vines: climbers
- Flowering vines: need support
- Ornamental bananas, bird-of-paradise and traveler's tree
- Your Miami-Dade landscape can be a great source of holiday color
- Replacing and/or restoring damaged trees
- A foolproof way to brighten a dull yard
- Some Sunny Garden Color
- Low Maintenance Landscape Roses for Miami-Dade
- What About Growing Roses in Miami-Dade County
- The Garden Blues and How to Enjoy Them
- Succulents in Miami-Dade: Plantinga Dry Rock Garden
- Small Trees for Miami-Dade Landscapes
- Local Retail Nurseries that Specialize in Flowering Trees and Shrubs
- Mussaendas for South Florida Landscapes
- Tree Planting: A Quick Guide for Homeowners
- Short-Day Shrubs for Fall and Winter Color
- Caesalpinia, The Other Birds-of-Paradise
- Desert Rose, Adenium obesum
- Roses in Your South Florida Landscape
- Old Roses for South Florida
Ground Cover/Bedding Plants
- Flower beds: getting started
- Flower beds: Some water wise choices for Miami-Dade
- Ornamental Corms, Tubers and Rhizomes for Miami-Dade
- There are amaryllids other than amaryllis for Miami-Dade
- Ornamental Bulbs for Miami-Dade
- Mulch Practices for South Florida
- Make Your Bedding Plants Last Longer
- Growing Plants in the Shade
- Groundcover for South Florida: Full Sun to Limited Shade
- Groundcover for open, sunny, natural landscapes
- Heliconias: More than just Parrots and Lobster Claws
- Your Miami-Dade landscape can be a great source of holiday color
- Ginger: Attractive foliage and stunning flowers
- Your Miami-Dade Guide to Holiday Plants
- Groundcover for open, sunny, natural landscapes
- Making Up Your Flower Beds
- Low-Maintenance Garden Color
- Succulents in Miami-Dade: Plantinga Dry Rock Garden
- Blackberry-lily, a Flowering Perennial for South Florida
- Crown-of-Thorns, Euphorbia millii
- Terrestrial Orchids for South Florida
- Groundcovers for Shade: South Florida
- Historical Background to the African American Garden
Vegetables/Tropical Fruit
- Raised Bed Garden Made Easy
- Easy to Grow Vegetables
- Drought Tolerant Fruit Trees
- Planning an African American Focused Garden
- More drought tolerant trees with edible fruit
- Drought tolerant trees with edible fruit
- Irrigation of the Home Garden: Vegetables
and Bedding Plants in South Florida - A guide to what ails your citrus tree
- Citrus trees
- Conserving water in a Miami-Dade vegetable garden
- In Miami-Dade think raised bed gardening
- Rare and exotic tropical fruit trees for Miami-Dade yards
- Tropical Fruit Favorites: Bananas, Papaya and Pineapple
- A Taste for the Exotic - Some not so Familiar Fruit Trees
- Leafy Green Vegetables and More
- Time to Plant the Veggies
- Edible Palms and Their Uses
- Tropical & Sub-Tropical Fruit Trees for Miami-Dade
- Roses in Your South Florida Landscape
- Tropical Fruit Nurseries in Southern Florida
Weeds/Pests/Disease
- Taking the Stress out of Gardening
- Invasive and Banned Plants of Miami-Dade County
- A guide to what ails your citrus tree
- Beware of intrusive plants - a timely post-hurricane topic
- Weeds-what's in a name?
- Roses in Your South Florida Landscape
- Old Roses for South Florida
- Mulch Practices for South Florida
Landscape Color
- Flower beds: getting started
- Flower beds: Some water wise choices for Miami-Dade
- A Selection of Flowering Shrubs and Trees for Color
- Adding Daytime Fragance to your Miami-Dade Landscape
- Ornamental Corms, Tubers and Rhizomes for Miami-Dade
- There are amaryllids other than amaryllis for Miami-Dade
- Ornamental Bulbs for Miami-Dade
- Flowering Vines: There's Space for at Least One in Every Miami-Dade Yard
- Non-Native Trees for Miami-Dade: Shade, Color and Conserving Water
- South Florida Native Trees for Miami-Dade: Shade, Color and Conserving Water
- Staying Green while Conserving water in Miami-Dade County: Choosing Flowering Shrubs
- A Selection of Less Familiar Red Flowering Shrubs for Miami-Dade Landscapes
- Red Flowering Trees to Fire-Up Miami-Dade Landscape
- Curious Vines for the Serious Hobbist
- Heliconias: Much more than just Parrots and Lobster Claws
- Flowering vines: climbers
- Flowering vines: need support
- Ginger: Attractive foliage and stunning flowers for a shady Miami garden
- Ornamental bananas, bird-of-paradise and traveler's tree
- Your Miami-Dade landscape can be a great source of holiday color
- Splashes of color for your Miami-Dade landscape
- Ground cover options in Miami-Dade for full sun locations
- Your Miami-Dade Guide to Holiday Plants
- A foolproof way to brighten a dull yard
- Some Sunny Garden Color
- Making Up Your Flower Beds
- The Garden Blues and How to Enjoy Them
- Low-Maintenance Garden Color
- Small Trees for Miami-Dade Landscapes
- Local Retail Nurseries that Specialize in Flowering Trees and Shrubs
- Mussaendas for South Florida Landscapes
- Short-Day Shrubs for Fall and Winter Color
- Growing Plants in the Shade
- Caesalpinia, The Other Birds-of-Paradise
- Desert Rose, Adenium obesum
- Blackberry-lily, a Flowering Perennial for South Florida
- Crown-of-Thorns, Euphorbia millii
- Roses in Your South Florida Landscape
- Old Roses for South Florida
- Terrestrial Orchids for South Florida
- Groundcovers for Shade: South Florida
- Make Your Bedding Plants Last Longer
Herbaceous Perennials
- Container Succulents
- Curious vines for the serious hobbyist
- Ornamental Corms, Tubers and Rhizomes for Miami-Dade
- There are amaryllids other than amaryllis for Miami-Dade
- Ornamental Bulbs for Miami-Dade
- Flowering Vines: There's Space for at Least One in Every Miami-Dade Yard
- A Selection of Less Familiar Red Flowering Shrubs for Miami-Dade Landscapes
- Curious Vines for the Serious Hobbyist
- Heliconias: More than just Parrots and Lobster Claws
- Flowering vines: climbers
- Ginger: Attractive foliage and stunning flowers for a shady Miami garden
- Your Miami-Dade Guide to Holiday Plants
- Ornamental bananas, bird-of-paradise and traveler’s tree
- A foolproof way to brighten a dull yard
- Accent plants: an essential part of a tropical garden
- Some Sunny Garden Color
- The Garden Blues and How to Enjoy Them
- Succulents in Miami-Dade: Plantinga Dry Rock Garden
- Short-Day Shrubs for Fall and Winter Color
- Blackberry-lily, a Flowering Perennial for South Florida
- Crown-of-Thorns, Euphorbia millii
Soil/Water/Plant Nutrition
- Ornamental Bulbs for Miami-Dade
- Non-Native Trees for Miami-Dade: Shade, Color and Conserving Water
- If You Prefer Container Gardening Consider Succulents: There is More Than Just Cacti
- Conserving water in a Miami-Dade vegetable garden
- Feeding your plants--macro and micro nutrients
- Feeding your landscape plants--first understand your soil
- Taking the Stress out of Gardening
- From Africa via Thailand Comes Some Low-Maintenance Garden Color
- Succulents in Miami-Dade: Plantinga Dry Rock Garden
- Small Trees for Miami-Dade Landscapes
- Irrigation of the Home Garden: Vegetables and Bedding Plants in South Florida
- Mulch Practices for South Florida
Low Maintenance Plants
- Low Maintenance Landscape Plants for South Florida (online)
- Low-Maintenance Landscape Plants for South Florida (pdf)
- Staying Green While Conserving Water, a selection of native and non-native trees & shrubs
- Drought Tolerant Fruit Trees
- From the Beatiful to the Bizarre: Some Climbers that are sure to Fascinate
- More drought tolerant trees with edible fruit
- Drought tolerant trees with edible fruit
- Non-Native Trees for Miami-Dade: Shade, Color and Conserving Water
- South Florida Native Trees for Miami-Dade: Shade, Color and Conserving Water
- Staying Green while Conserving water in Miami-Dade County: Choosing Flowering Shrubs
- Container Succulents
- If You Prefer Container Gardening Consider Succulents: There is More Than Just Cacti
- A Selection of Less Familiar Red Flowering Shrubs for Miami-Dade Landscapes
- Succulents in Miami-Dade: Planting a Dry Rock Garden
- Red Flowering Trees to Fire-Up Miami-Dade Landscape
- Curious Vines for the Serious Hobbist
- Flowering vines: need support
- Your Miami-Dade landscape can be a great source of holiday color
- Ornamental bananas, bird-of-paradise and traveler’s tree
- Groundcover for open, sunny, natural landscapes
- Succulents: Can be an Excellent Choice for Miami-Dade Landscapes
- Low Maintenance Landscape Roses for Miami-Dade
- Caesalpinia, The Other Birds-of-Paradise
- Desert Rose, Adenium obesum
- Blackberry-lily, a Flowering Perennial for South Florida
- Crown-of-Thorns, Euphorbia millii
- Old Roses for South Florida
- Salt Tolerant Plants
Florida Native Plants
- South Florida Native Trees for Miami-Dade: Shade, Color and Conserving Water
- Staying Green while Conserving water in Miami-Dade County: Choosing Flowering Shrubs
- Flowering vines: climbers
- Flowering vines: need support
- Your Miami-Dade landscape can be a great source of holiday color
- Low-Maintenance Landscape Plants for South Florida
- Native Landscape Plants for South Florida
- Native Plant Nurseries in South Florida
Safety
- The Giant African Land Snail and Rat Lungworm
- Toxic edible plants in local yards
- When enjoying a Miami-Dade landscape, please don’t eat the daisies
- Caution: these plant might rub you the wrong way
- Biohazards in the yard: playing it safe
- Replacing and/or restoring damaged trees: A post hurricane time-out
- Using a chainsaw safely
- ISA Certified Arborist List
- Gardens As a Source of Infectious Disease: Reducing the Risk
- Thunderstorms and Lightning
Irrigation
- Steps to Retrofit: adding an irrigation control device
- Steps to Retrofit: improving irrigation system design
- Home Irrigation Repair
- Efficient Irrigation System Design
- Presentation: Top 5 Irrigation Upgrades for South Florida
- Presentation: Soil Water Sensors and ET Smart Irrigation Control
- Cost analysis for rain sensor, soil water sensors and ET controller (money savings)
- Considerations for irrigation best management practices
- Crop Coefficients for Landscape Irrigation
- Catch Can Test for Sprinkler Application Rate
- UF TREC South Florida Irrigation Research
- UF Irrigation Research
- Virtual Field Day - Soil moisture sensors and ET controllers
- More videos from the Urban Conservation Unit (Spanish and English)
African American Garden Guide
- Historical Background to the African American Garden
- Ornamentals: Trees, Shrubs And Vines
- Ornamental African Plants Suitable for Miami-Dade County
- Planning an African American Focused Garden
- Ornamentals: Annual/Bedding Plants
- Ornamentals: Flowering Perennials
- Ornamental African Plants Suitable for the Miami-Dade
- Vegetable and fruit Crops Including a Selection of those Grown in Africa
- A Selection of Ornamental African Plants Suitable for the Miami-Dade Landscape
