A Guide to Florida Friendly Landscaping: Florida Yards and Neighborhoods Handbook¹

Amy Alexander et al.²

Footnotes

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This information was originally published November 1994 as Bulletin 295, revised March 1996 as SP-191, and revised 2003, 2006, 2007. First published in EDIS as SP-191,in May of 2001. Subsequently published in 2006 and revised 2007, Florida Yards & Neighborhoods, Environmental Horticulture Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Visit the EDIS Web site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.

Portions of this text may be reproduced for non-commercial use only. This booklet was funded in part by a Section 319 Nonpoint Source Management Program Implementation grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through a contract with the Nonpoint Source Management Section of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

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Amy Alexander, biological scientist, Environmental Horticulture Department; Dale Armstrong, coordinator, Florida Yards & Neighborhoods, Pinellas County Extension Office, Largo, Fla.; Ben Bolusky, cheif executive officer, Florida Nursery, Growers and Landscape Association, Inc., Orlando, Fla.; Eileen Buss, associate professor, Entomology and Nematology Department; Chris Claus, water conservation coordinator, City of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Fla.; Patty Connolly, program assistant; Dan Culbert, extension agent III, Okeechobee County, Okeechobee, Fla.;Tracy Floyd; Allen Garner, coordinator, Florida Yards & Neighborhoods, Manatee County Extension Office, Palmetto, Fla.; Jennifer Gillett-Kaufman, assistant director, Integrated Pest Management Florida, Entomology and Nematologoy Department; Edward Gilman, professor, Environmental Horticulture Department; Hugh Gramling, executive director, Tampa Bay Wholesale Growers, Seffner, Fla.; Paul Hinchcliff, biologist, Florida Department of Environmental Protection; Michael J. Holsinger, extension agent, Sarasota County Extension Office, Sarasota, Fla.; Mary Hoppe, Tampa Bay Estuary Program, St. Petersburg, Fla.; Adrian Hunsberger, extension agent III, Miami-Dade County Extension Office, Homestead, Fla.; Carol Keiper-Bennett, urban forester, City of Palm Coast, Fla.; Christine Kelly-Begazo, extension agent II and extension director, Indian River County Extension Office, Vero Beach, Fla.; William H. Kern, Jr., associate professor, Entomology and Nematology Department, Ft. Lauderdale Research and Education Center--Davie, Fla.; Gary Knox, professor, Horticultural Sciences Department, North Florida Research and Education Center (NFREC)--Quincy, Fla.; Barbra Larson, assistant in, Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department; Mickey MacDonald, science teacher, P.K. Yonge Developmental Reserach School, Gainesville, Fla.; David Marshall, extension agent IV, Leon County Extension Office, Tallahassee, Fla.; Julie Martens, free-lance garden writer and editor, Des Moines, Iowa; Rebecca McNair, technical specialist, Environmental Horticulture Department; Russell Mizell, professor, NFREC--Quincy, Fla.; Terril Nell, professor and chair, Environmental Horticulture Department; Sydney Park-Brown, associate professor, Environmental Horticulture Departemnt, Gulf Coast Research and Education Center--Plant City, Fla.; Marina Pryce, Florida Yards & Neighborhoods Program, Hillsborough County Extension Office, Seffner, Fla.; Gale Robinson, grants specialist, Environmental Horticulture Department; Kathleen Ruppert, associate extension scientist, Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department; Fred Santana, entomologist, Sarasota County Extension Office, Sarasota, Fla.; Michael Scheinkman, environmental specialist, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee, Fla.; Bart Schutzman, senior computer programmer, Environmental Horticulture Department; Mark Shelby, extension agent I, Sarasota County Extension Office, Sarasota, Fla.; Heidi Smith; John Stevely, extension agent IV, Manatee County Extension Office, Palmetto, Fla.; Michael Thomas, courtesy assistant professor, Entomology and Nematology Department; Laurie Trenholm, associate professor, Environmental Horticulture Department; Brian Unruh, associate professor, Environmental Horticulture Department; Teresa Watkins, horticultural specialist, Florida Water Star Program, St. Johns River Water Management District, Palatka, Fla.; Celeste White, courtesy extension agent 1, Orange County Extension Office, Orlando, Fla.; Tom Wichman, extension agent II, Environmental Horticulture Department; and Ray Zerba, extension agent IV, Clay County Extension Office, Green Cove Springs, Fla., Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.

Funding was also provided by a grant from the Southwest Florida Water Management District, whose staff contributed significantly to the design and layout of this handbook.