Looking for that special royalty-free image for the article or book you are writing? Cheryl Ann Meola has several botanical images that you need. Cheryl specializes in tropical and southern plants. Her portfolio will not disappoint. New floral and fruit images uploaded today. Check it out at: Adobe Stock by Cheryl
Here's a few examples of images to view and purchase at the link above.
Looking for that special royalty-free image for the article or book you are writing? Cheryl Ann Meola has several botanical images that you need. New floral and fruit images uploaded today. Check it out at: Royalty Images
Here's one example of images to view and purchase.
Happy Gardening
March
Gardening Calendar
As the weather warms, we as
gardeners start thinking about Spring and what to do with are garden. Spring is
a good time to check out new gardening books. Here’s a gardening book I would
like to recommend Southeast
Style Gardening and the book is on sale
at Amazon. Here’s a Link to Check it out.
Fertilize winter flowering annuals with a blooming type
fertilizer. Water in all granular type fertilizers.
Tattered Liriope leaves can be cut either with a weed eater or
your lawn mower set on its highest setting.
Lawns should have lime at least yearly. Have you limed your
lawn lately? Use 40 pounds per 1000 square feet.
Start spring flowers and tomatoes from seeds indoors. It takes
about 6 weeks to get strong seedlings.
Spring is a good time to prune your boxwood shrubs.
Peach and Apple trees need to be sprayed with a fungicide
recommended for fruit trees and spray the trees while the blossoms are on the
tree.
Prune back Holly shrubs that have gotten too large. If needed,
you can prune back to 18 inches.
Need to divide your Hostas? When the leaves start to show you
can divide and plant elsewhere in a shady part of the garden. Use a solution of
SuperThrive as a root stimulator for best results after planting.
Fertilize Pecan Trees with a fruit tree fertilizer and water
in well after.
Check for scale insects on Camellias and Euonymus. Spray with
a horticultural oil, if you detect the insects.
March is the last month recommended to prune Roses to half
their original size. Fertilize with Bayer Advanced Rose Fertilizer after
pruning and apply once a month. Click Here For More Information on Roses.
There is still time to plant winter veggies. Click Here For
More Information. All vegetables can be grown in large containers. I prefer to
grow my vegetables in containers. Click Here For Cedar Planters.
Fertilize shrubs with a shrub and tree fertilizer and water in
well.
Flowering shrubs such as Winter Honeysuckle, Quince, and
Forsythia can be pruned after flowering.
One of the best time to plant fruit and nut trees is in early
spring. Nurseries have a good selection of these trees in spring, but hurry the
selection usually goes fast.
Cheryl Ann would like to introduce to you a website featuring beautiful Botanical prints and Travel prints.
The photographs are featured in: Wall Art, Home Decor, LifeStyle, Stationary, Tech, and Apparel.
My artwork has a section for everyone. Here are some examples of my work:
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 applying DNA datasets or
the testing of the plant’s DNA and modern phylogenetic theory. DNA datasets did
not exist twenty years ago.
Here is the
link: Cheryl Ann Meola Photography Stock Photography
All Images are copyrighted Cheryl Ann Meola 2021.
This book will allow the reader to effortlessly identify indigenous plants within the southern region by referring to pictures. The southern climate is unique: it accepts tropical, subtropical, and native plant species. The gardener can choose a wide variety of plants from each category. The book is arranged alphabetically by botanical or scientific names.
Over 490 species suited for AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, SC, and TX are featured. Each species has 3 full color photographs with over 1480 photographs on display. Each photograph depicts an important characteristic to help anyone from the novice to the expert identify each plant. Southeast Style Gardening reads like a cookbook, and the cultural requirements represent the ingredients to the recipe and are included for each plant. Each cultural requirement listed gives insight into caring for and identifying plants in the garden, retail nursery, or botanical garden and will assist you in the design and placement of your garden.
Basic gardening topics are also covered and include—garden design, site survey, planning on paper, planning your garden, planting, watering, fertilizers, pruning, pest and disease management.
Southeast Style Gardening is an informative reference guide for the
first-time home owner, recently relocated, horticulture or botany student, Master
Gardener, landscape designer or architect.
Click to Purchase From Amazon Press: Southeast Style Gardening
About the Author.
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.
Ms. Meola had an interest in tropical plants and moved to Florida to further
her education. In 1989, she received her Associate in Arts degree in Landscape
Architecture from Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC). While studying for her
degree, she attended junior level courses with the University of Florida’s
Research and Educational Center in Fort Lauderdale. During this time, she
worked for five years at MDCC in their Landscape Technology Nursery, a teaching
nursery.
While at the nursery,
she supervised Nursery Practices II students, and she gave tours of the nursery
to visiting elementary school children. During her stay at the nursery, Ms.
Meola rewrote the plant and animal section of the school children’s tour,
giving an overview of plant evolution. 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.
Starting in 1997, she worked for Wolf Camera where she won their 1997 District
Printoff and 1999 Store Printoff Awards.
In 2006, she became an estate gardener at Deeridge Farms, and was
responsible for growing organic vegetables, herbs, tropical fruits,
ornamentals, tropicals, and orchids. The ornamentals, tropicals, and orchids
were utilized in the landscape, and the fresh edibles were enjoyed by the
owners. She enjoyed all the praise!
