I started gardening to have something to talk about with my dad. I have learn so much over the years. He told me the other day that the student has out done the teacher. What a compliment. Thanks for the time you take to keep my learning going. 😊

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Awww 🥹☺️🥹 I love that! Thank you for sharing that.

Good day Jacqueline. We recently came upon your videos. We really like your style of presenting information. We already have a Greenhouse and raised bed herb and veggie gardens. Our landscape style is Rustic, Native/Naturalized, with a lean towards Tropic and English Cottage. Currently, we are revamping our 35-year-old northeast Florida backyard, therefore, we are viewing your videos on the living room big screen - over and over again. We also purchased your 2024 plan, much appreciated Good day Art & Jenny

We've been in Florida for 2 years now, and this fall, due to the milder temperatures, our garden is awesome! I have lots of cabbage, kale and collards ready to harvest and the broccoli and brussel sprouts are growing nicely. Here in north central Florida, our tomatoes have survived the few frosts we have had with protection. My new project for this year is a garden to border the new chicken coop and run we are building. I want sunflowers and lots of herbs bordering the run. I'm excited!

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Wowow! You are a rockstar 🤩 Congrats on your amazing winter crop! And best wishes on your chicken coop journey! It sounds amazing! That is a big project!

I love your channel! I started gardening for the beauty, I wanted a tropical oasis. But now finds it gives me so much joy and has now become a meditative activity

Great ideas here! I decided I want to try a medicinal herb garden in a corner of my front yard. Will be using your planner to make it come to life!

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

That’s awesome Robin! I can’t wait to hear how it goes! I hope you enjoy the planner ☺️

Hello from northern Israel, my garden helps my PTSD and the style function of it is minimum cost minimum maintained wild flowery wild food forest, permaculture style. looking at wild trees bushes weeds their leaves and roots, and finding functional colorful plants that can keep the natural wild look but benefit me more, plus i try to germinate seeds from everything i eat, so i also try to make a garden from seeds and roots and cuttings from my supermarket

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Howdy neighbor! Wishing you peace and safety from across the pond. Your garden sounds like a functional oasis! I love it!

@OrenBlau

5 ай бұрын

@@WildFloridian thank you so much 😀 it really is an oasis, it gives me so much more then just smells and tastes. it revives my spirit.

Just want to let you know how much I'm enjoying your channel. Thanks for the info on chip drop! I got a very large load of oak!! Wow, how nice! I just bought you guide and I'm planning my first native wild flower garden! I'm starting with drip irrigation and then off to the native nursery for the plants! Excited!!

My 2024 Garden Planner and my Beginner’s Guide to Florida Gardening book arrived today. Oh my gosh, are these ever fantastic. Jacqueline, you have done an incredible job with both of these!! The Beginner’s Guide is exceedingly well written. It is packed with critically useful information and written in a delightfully entertaining manner that also makes everything so easy to grasp and understand. Thank you so much!! I am so glad I bought these, and I sure hope you write more books!

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Oh my Carolyn!! You just warmed my heart. Ben is over here hushing at your comment too! I’m so so glad you are enjoying both! ☺️

I started gardening for all the reasons a few years ago. This spring will be my 1st full garden, I have been just growing a few things here and there. I wanted to get a couple wins under my belt! Then I had to learn to preserve it 😂. I got my planner a couple months ago, and yes...I am in it daily! Great video ❤

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Yay!!! That is so smart Misty! Piece by piece and looking at how far you’ve come. I’m so proud of you!

I got my garden planner a couple days ago. It’s awesome! Thank you!

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

I’m so happy!!! Hope you enjoy it! 🥰

Aww I love it!! You were at Sweet Bay Nursery!! Leah and Cindy are my girls! 😁❤️🎉

Girl, get out of my head. I get so overwhelmed each year with this planning project. Nothing ever goes as planned, there are so many styles I like. Each year I get either volunteer plants or weeds that I have to let grow just to find out if it is a keeper or not or plants just overgrow the space. My mental garden design becomes challenging due to the limited space to secure my crops with all sorts of makeshift fences(gardening is expensive, I'm frugal) to keep out the deers, rabbits birds and whatever else is out there. You hit ever point I face. Btw, what is that pinkish purple plant in the background, hoping it would do well in zone 7.

I have a hint for you. Plant your seeds in 6" pots. You water them less often and they can stay in there longer and not look so bad when you get around to them. I like you seem to be very occupied because I work 11 hours a day and on the weekend the laundry ETC takes up a bunch of time. I have been doing this for the last 10 years and the results are so much better. I planted my seeds in September and I have been harvesting Broccoli for a month and my tomatoes are 4' tall and have picked about 30 so far from 10 plants. The broccoli side shoots are coming on strong and I am contemplating if I can get another crop in or simply focus on beets for canning and a second crop of canning tomatoes. Root bound plants that repeatedly dry out become stunted. Also a hint if the toms get stunted cut the tops off and root them, they will grow way faster with the new roots than the root bound ones.

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

definitely for the birds, bees, butterflies and bugs! i try to stick to a plan, but sooo many of your videos make me run to my local native plant stores!!! 🙂

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

LOL! Same! I have a plan and then I research stuff for a video and then I’m trying to figure out how I can jam more things in my garden 😂

@katiecannon8186

4 күн бұрын

I just optimistically say that it’s the nature of gardening - it’s constantly involving. One thing that made me happier regarding trees & shrubs for wildlife is succession planting: Planting “too close” knowing I’ll have to remove a tree or shrub here or there as they mature. As long as I don’t pay too much for a baby tree or shrub, I’m good with that. Now I feel more free to experiment while feeling freed up to enjoy the instant gratification of a more lush look. I’ve also begun filling out the empty spaces between trees & shrubs with inexpensive, fast growing, gallon sized “subshrubs” like Privet Senna, False Indigo, St. Andrew’s Cross. Since they’re inexpensive I’ll just yank them out when the time comes. I also use Red Salvia for the same effect. Gardening for wildlife can be expensive because trees & shrubs have gotten sooooo expensive. I just plant babies now. Plant them “too close” while also using appropriate gallon sized “subshrubs”

@katiecannon8186

4 күн бұрын

Oh, and Blue Berries as subshrubs

I LOVED this video! I'm in Ocala, a wee bit north of you, and I can hardly wait to start my spring garden. I just got my new irrigation system in the mail, yes I over ordered but I like options:), and I would love a discussion about irrigation. The tropical next to the highlands plants made me think of the irrigation topic and how it could be a beneficial discussion when planning a garden. Coolcool, Happy Gardening:)

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Howdy neighbor Joni! I’m so happy you loved the video! ☺️ LOL options is always good… especially when starting something new. Good luck with the irrigation project.

I so love this web channel. Your enthusiasm is very inspiring. I have been gardening from the time I was in 3rd grade, I am now close to 60 years old. 20 some years in Maryland and 30 years down here in Fort Myers Florida. Keep up the effort people, soon it will become second nature but every season you will encounter a new hurdle that will add to your knowledge thus future success. I wish I had kept a journal all these years. So many times I have made mistakes and realized I had learned that lesson before only to forget it that season.

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! ☺️ I’m right with you. I have to relearn lessons allll the time.

Great tips! It gives me a lot to think about!

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful! 🥰

If anyone lives near Tavares, try stopping by the Discovery Gardens at the UF/IFAS extension. They have several themed example gardens to show some of the themes mentioned here can be accomplished here in (central) Florida. For me, their Cottage Garden helped since 90% of the things found in a proper British Cottage Garden would wither and die screaming in our climate. Also, as part of part 12' maintenance, I would suggest considering cold protection. Some plants that are listed as available to Zone 9 will get quite damaged if not killed completely by one freezing night. I had a rather large firebush that made it through 3 winters with only minor frost damage before a bad freeze killed it back to ground.

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

OoOoO! Thank you for sharing! I live example gardens!!!

Love it 😍

good morning Thank you for making my morning Motivated me to go play in my garden this morning North panhandle of Florida

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Good morning! 😃 Wishing you a wonderful weekend 🥰

We have the same shirt

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Twins!!!👯‍♀️

Have you ever thought of doing a segment called, What Would Reagan Grow?

Help for a long-time fan, please! Thank you for creating the planner but I am a bit frustrated tho in trying to figure out the bar chart on the pages with the planting guide. I see some months squares are gray and some are white. How is this supposed to be used? Is there another video to explain each section more in detail? Thank you in advance!

Is that beautiful purple plant behind you a Ti Plant? I have one, thinking of planting it by the little duck pond this spring.

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

The reddish one would be cordyline. I believe it is a type of ti plant.

Any ideas where I can buy a peppercorn plant or seeds from a reputable seller? I’m not comfortable buying from Etsy or Amazon. Prefer seeds if possible. I’m in Brevard County. Thank you!

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Not sure. but hopefully someone in the community can help.

Hello! I got your 2024 planner digital version. I got it because I have a kindle scribe and can mark up PDFs on it. For some reason though I can’t get the PDF to work on my kindle. Tried every method to put it on there and it just gives me errors or it won’t send using any of the methods I normally use. Is there any way we could troubleshoot this as I don’t have a printer and don’t know how else I’d be able to use it? I can email you my order/confirmation number. Let me know!! The seasonal gardening PDF works on my kindle and the 2024 planner isn’t too big, it’s only 57mb and it says that it accepts 200mb pdf files so I know size isn’t the problem. 😢 any help would be appreciated! Thank you ❤

@WildFloridian

5 ай бұрын

Hmmm. 🤔 I’m not sure. I’ll have Ben have a look and see if he has any thoughts. Can you email me at Wild.Floridian@gmail.com