By Kim Charles
Sonja from South Florida has learned how to garden in bad conditions thanks to her Master Gardener education .
" I populate in Fort Myers , Florida . A very unmanageable mood with 8 - 9 months of near drought term and 3 - 4 months of tropic rains . It is a sub - tropic climate . The soil in this area is very tough so most of these plant life are in sight . The minor fountain was chosen to give us the refreshing sound of plash water . I use native plants extensively for hedges and trees and fill in with lovely , gravid leaf tropicals that I can water and inseminate to keep them succulent . I am a 28 class Master Gardener here in Lee County and ca n’t emphasize enough how much I have learned from the various Extension programs in our orbit . "
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This is my back patio, the view from my bedroom french doors. The patio also is adjacent to my sunroom.
In the front yard, a colorful mailbox is surrounded by ‘Ellen Bosanquet’ crinums.
This orchid has found a new home at the Edison Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers. The estates will be one of our gardens feautured by the Royal Horticultural Society’s Hampton Court show in England this summer.
A profusion of native palms — here the thrinax radiata backed by the giant, white bird of paradise,the lady palm and the colorful leaves of a copperleaf.
The purple flowers and berries of native beauty berry, offset the complimentary color of bright orange in the cleordendrum, the soft billows of the ming plant, and the spiky thorns of the acanthus.
