Q: Mushrooms are taking over my yard and popping up in my landscape beds. How do I get rid of these freaky fungi? A: Yard mushrooms typically aren’t harmful, but that doesn’t mean you should start mixing them with your salads or let your pets eat them. You have several…
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Q: My neighbor says I should stay away from planting palms inside my lanai because they get too big. Aren’t there any slow growers out there? Besides, I can keep them trimmed myself. A: We agree you have to be thoughtful about planting palms inside lanais, but if you select…
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Hearts of palm, also locally known as swamp cabbage, is a vegetable harvested from the core and growing bud of a young palm (less than a year old). Peach palm is the most notable palm used agriculturally to harvest the heart of palm you might enjoy in your salad. Palm…
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Here is the lovely gumbo limbo: a semi-evergreen that tolerates droughts, pests and hurricanes but with wood soft enough to make carousel horses out of it (which they used to do until the plastic-mold kind came along). It’s called the tourist tree because the peeling red bark resembles a tourist’s…
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Q: My wife says I should wait a few days before trimming hurricane-damaged tree branches. I say the sooner the better, especially for safety reasons. Who’s right? A: You both are. You definitely don’t want to make any hasty pruning decisions immediately following a storm. Secure or remove hazards, but…
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