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Originally Posted by juneroses
The following link is to a Florida gardening forum:
Florida Gardening Forum - GardenWeb
There are several plant hardiness zones within our state so not all plants mentioned in the forum will flourish here in the Villages. We're not even in the same zone within our community - the new 2012 zone map shows Marion County and the northern half of Sumter County in 9a; most of Lake in 9b.
USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
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You will love this forum. I've been on the northern portion of it for years. Then we moved to a condo, and I got into the container gardening part of it. Now I can try out the southern part.
For those who like to garden but don't want the responsibility for the entire landscape... our landscapers are suggesting that we have portions of the landscape prepped for planting so that we can have fun doing some of our own without it being overwhelming.
And Gracie, our plumbago are not doing well either, and we fertilized them with osmocote last spring. They look burned. Our front yard faces directly west. We're thinking of having them moved to the back where they'll get a little more shade, or else putting them under whatever tree we have planted. Everyone's on our side of the street look the same way. the other possibility is that these are builders' plants, and perhaps they might be of a different quality than a landscaper would put in? I don't know. But if you drive around, some look great and some do not.