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Lake County Master Gardener Plant Sale

The Lake County Master Gardener annual Spring Plant Sale will be Saturday, April 9th from 9am to 1pm at the Lake County Horticultural Learning Center in Tavares on State Road 19.  There will be ornamental shrubs, trees, annuals, perennials, and vegetables for sale.  Please bring your own wagon or cart to carry all the wonderful plants that you purchase.  The prices will be extremely reasonable for good quality plants and a great selection of species to choose from!  Proceeds will go to the Lake County Master Gardener Society.

While you're there, if you haven't had a chance to tour the Discovery Gardens, don't miss the opportunity!

Free Guide To Identifying Southern Invasive Plants

The USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station has created a free pdf download of invasive plant species, “A Field Guide for the Identification of Invasive Plants in Southern Forests.”

The book is a more comprehensive identification guide to nonnative trees, shrubs, vines, grasses, ferns and forbs invading the region’s forests and other natural areas. The revised guide includes 23 more plant species with updated information on the original 33 species; 241 new photos and images and a new “Resembles” section so users can identify plant “look-alikes.”

The book’s appendix contains the most complete list of nonnative invasive plants in the 13 Southern states, providing common and scientific names for 310 other invading species including, for the first time, aquatic plant invaders.

Complete with color high density photographs, it takes a few minutes to download or you can email:

To: pubrequest@fs.fed.us
Subject: Publication Request
In email, type: Please send me: A field guide for the identification of invasive plants in southern forests (GTR-SRS-119) by Miller, James H.; Chambliss, Erwin B.; Loewenstein, Nancy J.

This publication should be in every Master Gardener Clinic, County Extension office, Master Naturalist, eco-tourism guide, and environmentalist's library. The pdf is an updated version of their original publication from 2003.