Bee Good Landscape Design and Services

Are you interested in working in the landscape industry? Are you in the landscape industry and looking for a change? We are hiring! Full or part time positions available. We are a small but growing company and would love for you to grow with us. Majority of workload would be servicing our regular maintenance clients with mowing, weeding, and trimming. We offer competitive pay ($18-$24/hr) and strive to create as fun and positive a work environment. Come join the team! Email resumes to [email protected]

Cleanup from Hurricane Debby continues throughout the county. The county and our hauler, GFL, are working diligently to collect the large volume of yard trash created by the storm in a timely manner. It is our hope to be caught up by Sept. 1, 2024. Until that time, residents should not expect their yard trash to be collected on its regular schedule.

Please remember that any yard trash placed out for collection needs to comply with the regular specifications for yard trash placed curbside. GFL will not collect any material outside of those specifications.

Yard trash includes leaves, grass clippings, tree and shrub trimmings, and small tree limbs. It does not include boards, fencing, landscape timbers, lumber, dirt, rocks, brick or concrete.

The regular specifications for yard trash placed curbside are:

• No item longer than 5 feet in length
• No item wider than 8 inches in diameter
• No item heavier than 40 pounds
• All loose material must be placed in a paper yard waste bag or reusable container

Thank you for your patience as we do our best to be caught up in the next few weeks.

A little wildflower garden in an HOA is starting to come together. Waiting for things to grow in is the hardest best part of landscaping.

The crazy hit and miss of Florida rain

The District received an average rainfall of 3.05 inches of rain during the month of June, which is about 55 percent less than the 1932-2023 average of 6.79 inches of rain.

This information and more can be found in our monthly Hydrological Conditions Report.

https://www.mysuwanneeriver.com/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=936

It’s National Pollinator Week and we are celebrating Florida’s wonderful butterfly biodiversity! Despite being the most universally loved group of insects, their populations are unfortunately in decline, primarily due to habitat loss. The good news is that our own landscaping practices can go a long way towards supporting them.

Learn more and bring on the butterflies with our new guide to 20 species that you can plant for: https://www.flawildflowers.org/bring-on-the-butterflies/

Learn more about Pollinator Week: https://www.pollinator.org/pollinator-week

The District received an average of 4.57 inches of rain during the month of May, which is approximately 32 percent higher than the 1932-2023 average of 3.47 inches of rain. Some areas of Dixie, Hamilton, Jefferson, Lafayette, Madison, and Taylor counties received more than 7 inches of rainfall.

This information and more can be found in our monthly Hydrological Conditions Report.

https://www.mysuwanneeriver.com/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=933

The FNPS Landscape Awards are here to celebrate excellence in sustainable landscaping across Florida. Applications are open now! Early bird discount ends June 30. Final application deadline is August 9th!

More info + application: https://buff.ly/3Ru8e3Z

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Like native plants you’ve always been here and we love you! Happy pride month. 🌈

🌿🌸 Meet frogfruit (Phyla nodiflora), a native ground cover that is undergoing plant breeding at the University of Florida and is poised to revolutionize Florida lawns! Discover why this potential turfgrass alternative is making waves and how it can transform your landscape in the latest installment of the Lawn Ornament blog series (link below). 🌱🦋

🔗 What Is That Lawn Ornament?! Frogfruit? Florida turf of the future? https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/sarasotaco/2024/05/16/frogfruit/

Quick Hitters:
🌱 Extremely adaptable to soil and location!
🦋 Host plant for THREE butterflies!
🌼 Year-round blooms!
🐝 Valuable forage for native bees and butterflies!
👨‍🌾 Extremely easy to propagate!
🚱 Thrives without fertilizer and irrigation

UF Florida-Friendly Landscaping Program University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Florida Master Gardener Program Sarasota County Government

All flowers are $8 for one gallon pots and include free delivery for the month of May! Lanceleaf tickseed or Lanceleaf Coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata) is a perennial wildflower with conspicuously sunny blooms. It can handle full sun to some shade. Lanceleaf coreopisis typically blooms in spring and sometimes into summer, attracting butterflies and other pollinators. Its seeds are commonly eaten by birds and small wildlife.

Casting is still open.

We are looking for yards to flip for season four. Tell a friend or a neighbor, well your neighbor might take it the wrong way.

It’s simple to apply go to www.flipmyfloridayard.com answer a few questions, make a short video and sit back and wait. Good luck!

With hurricane season fast approaching, Alachua County urges residents to be prepared in the event of a flood.

Tropical storms and afternoon thunderstorms are the primary causes of flooding in Alachua County, most frequently occurring from June through November.

Residents can review the Determining Flood Risks in Alachua County document (https://tinyurl.com/5xbwhpv8) created by Alachua County Public Works. The document has information about flood safety measures, hurricane preparedness, floodplain development permits, drainage maintenance systems, and more.

Other useful links

For up-to-date information on hurricanes and emergency threats to your area, visit www.AlachuaCountyReady.com. Text “Alachua” to 888-777 for real-time updates sent to your phone.

Check to see if your home is in a flood zone. https://tinyurl.com/2bnxhweh Type in your address, then click on the “flood zones” tab.

For information on adding flood insurance, learn more about the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). https://www.floridafloodinsurance.org/

There would certainly be no Bee Good Landscape without the mother who instilled a love of plants and animals in my life from a early age. Happy Mother’s Day to all! -Travis

Bartram Days - Celebrating William Bartram Two hundred and fifty years ago, in April of 1774, a young man's travels took him to a site overlooking what we today call Paynes Prairie.

Happy Easter from the Mitchell boys! 🐣 🌱 🚲

Bloom season is almost here. Who is ready to ditch the grass and let some native wildflowers go wild? We still have some a few slots open for April.

Life Cycle of Blackberries

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