Master Gardening series helps develop green thumbs
PHOTO PROVIDED BY NANCY PALMER
Donna Worthley gives a lecture on Why Landscapes Fail on Jan. 11 as part of the 2013 Landscape Gardening Series presented by area Master Gardeners.
By BARBARA BEAN-MELLINGER
Correspondent
Wondering why the plants you’ve enjoyed for years just haven’t flourished since you’ve moved to Florida? Or maybe you’ve invested in the plants you see thriving in everyone else’s garden, but you just can’t seem to get them going in yours.
It isn’t just the nearly ever-present heat or the blazing and sometimes brutal sun that can cause your plants to wither away. Sometimes the sandy soil is the culprit. But then again, it could be something else entirely.