Gardening And More

  Florida Flame Azalea is available as stock. Check the link below In March the weather teases gardeners into believing spring is almost around the corner, with lots of continuous sunny and warm days. During this time of year, the weather is very unpredictable for planning and the weather is like a roller coaster, one day it’s nice and sunny, then the next day it’s cold and rainy.   As gardeners we get antsy, we want to get out in our garden and play in the dirt. But we know better, the last average frost date is still a month or two months away, depending on your gardening zone. This is when we can start planning for this year’s spring garden. Spring is a good time to check out new gardening books. There are three gardening books I would like to recommend  Southeast Style Gardening, Gardening for the Butterflies, and Grow Fresh Air. The books are for sale on the Hibiscusandmore.com website. The books can help you plan your garden for spring. March Gardening Chores As...

           Cheryl Ann Meola Tropical Botanicals and Nature Stock Photography   An avid horticulturist and gardener, Cheryl Ann Meola gained invaluable experience in the eighteen years she worked within the plant nursery industry. Her career began with Cornelius nursery in Houston, Texas where she took classes to become a Texas Certified Nursery Professional. Upon completion of the courses, she was promoted to bedding plant supervisor. In 1989, she received her Associate in Arts degree in Landscape Architecture from Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC). During this time, she worked for five years at MDCC in their Landscape Technology Nursery, a teaching nursery. While at the nursery, she photographed the plants, and her plant photography was later used as an instructional tool for Plant Identification students. The photo guide of native and tropical flora inspired the idea to write Southeast Style Gardening. While writing Southeast Style Gardening...

  Tropical Botanicals and Nature Photography Stock Photos   Are you acquainted with someone in Publishing, Newspapers, Magazines or Textbooks industries? Does that acquaintance need or is searching for the perfect photo to illustrate the article or book? Let me introduce a stock botanical photographer that specializes in tropical botanicals and Nature photography. Each image has the current botanical, scientific, and common names. Cheryl just added new images to her stock photography portfolio. The new images are Mosquito Plant, American Lotus, Alocasia, False Aralia, Azalea, Caladium, Swamp Leather Fern, Variegated Tapioca Plant, and Buccaneer Palm. The images are royalty-free images. Here is a Link to few the new images:  Cheryl Ann Meola Photography Several changes in scientific names are the result of studies by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, (APG). The changes in scientific names are the result of two decades of research by a new generation of taxonomists appl...