New Florida-Friendly Resources

Great new publications for you to use in your Florida-Friendly Landscape™.  Check out:

Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ Pattern Book - zone 9A
Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ Pattern Book - zone 9B

Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ Planting Selections & Landscape Guide

Protect the Waterfront - Especially Our Estuaries

(Robinsons Preserve)

Celebrate National Estuaries Day on September 25, 2010

Estuaries are places where freshwater mixes with salty water from the sea. Teeming with life, our nation's estuaries provide vital habitats for 80 percent of the world's fish and shellfish species, including many that are listed as threatened or endangered. Estuaries are one of our nation's most valuable natural resources, creating more food per acre than the richest farmland.

In the past 100 years 55,000,000 acres of estuarine habitat have been destroyed. Bays once filled with fish and oysters have become dead zones filled with excess nutrients, chemical wastes, harmful algae, and marine debris.

Estuaries require everyone’s help and hard work to keep them clean and safe. There are many things you can do to help protect estuaries and to conserve the valuable natural resource in estuarine ecosystems.


Click here to learn 10 things you can do to help protect our estuaries.

Information from Sarasota Bay Estuary Program and Estuaries.gov