Maphis Nursery & Tree Farm

08/18/2026

Get lavender for our area!

🪻💜 Lavender pre-orders are open! 💜🪻

Limited quantities!!—call (850) 640-7774 during business hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:00 AM–4:00 PM to reserve yours and plant at the right time for the best results.

If you want lavender that has a real shot at thriving here, timing matters. The best planting window in our area is September 12–October 10 . That gives young plants three full seasons—fall, winter, and spring to build strong roots before they face our summer heat ☀️. Stronger roots = healthier plants, better growth, and a much higher survival rate.

A lot of sellers will move lavender year-round because it’s convenient and profitable. We won’t. We’d rather lose a sale than send you home with a plant that’s set up to struggle. Our goal is simple: help you succeed, not just make a transaction.

08/14/2026

Mark your calendars for upcoming free fall gardening classes!

Please pre-register at https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/home-gardener-classes-3466489 for classes below to help us manage seating and handouts.

08/13/2026

https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/leonco/2026/08/04/fireflies-natures-fireworks/

Email 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Reddit 0 X Linkedin 0 Stumbleupon 0   Many of us have memories of warm summer nights watching fireflies. Some of us might have even chased and caught a few to put in mason jars for observation, fascinated by their glowing abdomens. Floridians actually have the best chan...

08/11/2026

https://www.greenhousemag.com/news/2027-perennial-plant-year-association-vernonia-summers-swan-song/?utm_campaign=Greenhouse+Management+News&utm_source=08%2f10%2f2026+-+&utm_medium=email&utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.greenhousemag.com%2fNews%2f2027-perennial-plant-year-association-vernonia-summers-swan-song&utm_content=1134184&isid=42FBE4

08/11/2026

https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/okaloosaco/2026/07/31/be-careful-using-lawn-w**d-killers-in-hot-weather/

Email 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Reddit 0 X Linkedin 0 Stumbleupon 0 Hot weather and lawn w**d killers, called herbicides, do not mix well. Spraying a lawn with an herbicide when temperatures are too high can damage or even kill your grass. Most herbicide labels include a warning like this: “Do not us...

08/11/2026

https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/santarosaco/2026/08/06/fall-support-for-pollinators/

Email 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Reddit 0 X Linkedin 0 Stumbleupon 0 It may not seem like it, but the days are getting have steadily shorteer. With that, we’ve also begun our journey to fall. Aside from images of glowing fireplaces and pumpkin spice everything, those of us in the gardening world shoul...

08/11/2026

Register today! Join us for a workshop to learn how private wells and septic systems work, how to maintain them, and how to protect your drinking water quality. This workshop will focus on residential private wells and water quality for homeowners.

08/10/2026

UF/IFAS recommended it for the yard. Florida fireflies needed it for survival. Most gardeners walked past it at the nursery without knowing either of those things.

08/08/2026

That little lemon on the floor was not an accident. It was a decision. The tree ran the numbers — sugar moving through the branch, water pressure in the stem, light hitting the leaf above — and ranked every developing fruit against every other one. The weakest got cut. Not cruelly. Efficiently. Meyer lemons are one of the few plants that carry open flowers, fertilized flowers, and swelling fruit all at once, sometimes across three separate bloom cycles running simultaneously. That means the tree is constantly managing a budget it never stops revising. Indoors, with no bees visiting, an unpollinated flower lasts about a week before the tree quietly absorbs it back. What looks like failure from the outside is actually ruthless prioritization happening in real time. A single bee visit outdoors covers what a person would need to repeat across several days of careful hand-pollination just to get close. The tree is not falling apart. It is editing. Nature does not mourn the draft. It publishes the best version.

Sources:
Reddit r/Citrus post on Meyer lemon fruit growth pattern
Reddit r/Citrus post on Meyer lemon flowering and fruit drop
Food Garden Life Meyer Lemon Tree guide [YZ0LC]

08/08/2026

https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/rcrec/2026/08/05/coyotes-on-the-range-an-update-on-what-the-research-is-telling-us/

Email 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Reddit 0 X Linkedin 0 Stumbleupon 0 By Dr. Hance Ellington, UF/IFAS Range Cattle Research and Education Center, Ona Few animals generate as much conversation around the ranch as the coyote. Coyotes are nearly everywhere in Florida now — they reached the Panhandle in th...