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Got sick plants? Learn how to spot diseases in your Florida plants!

Watch this FREE 1-hour video recording with Dr. Bill Lester, UF/IFAS Extension Agent in Hernando County: https://youtu.be/UH5ybTBa9Kk?si=Omjc9hfmUiDhhaB1

As a specialist in urban and commercial horticulture with a degree from UF's Doctor of Plant Medicine program, Dr. Lester shares valuable insights on how to diagnose plant diseases and identify fungus or virus attacks.

Watch now and start healing your plants!

Learning Objectives Flowchart text in image

Definition of “plant disease”

How do we classity diseases?

How to tell if it's a disease or something else?

How are plant diseases treated?

Examples of common diseases
• Time for questions

10/25/2022

06/14/2022

What were they thinking?? Back in 2007, the people in this Clay County house planted 12 queen palms along their fence and directly under the wires. Only 2 of the 12 had survived by 2015 when I took this photo and now those two palms have been topped by the utility company to keep the powerline clear.

Why do people plant (and continue to sell) these queen palms (Syagrus romanzoffiana) in North Florida? Here are the four big reasons why you should find another palm for your landscape:
1) Queen palms are tropical plants and are NOT cold tolerant. If the temperatures dip below 25º F, most of its fronds will die. After a cold winter, if the palm's growing stem survives, it'll look terrible for six months or longer.
2) Unlike most palms, queens are not wind resistant. In a tabulation of trees lost in the hurricanes in 2004 and 2006, queens blew over twice as much as any other palm.
3) Queen palms are not drought tolerant and will require irrigation to survive our seven-moth dry season, especially during a prolonged drought period.
4) Queen palms produce a huge amount of seed, which quickly becomes a smelly mess. Plus in Central and South Florida, queens palms have invaded our natural habitats and are listed on the II Florida invasives list put together by the Florida Invasive Species Council: https://floridainvasivespecies.org/

05/07/2020

Variegated Jolly Tiger fig -Ficus carica ‘Jolly Tiger’ My favorite rare fig!

08/05/2019