Be part of a little holiday cheer! The Candlelight Tour of Historic Lake City is scheduled for Sunday, December 9th from 3 – 8 PM. This tour will feature Lake City’s most beautiful homes and architecture, including the fire tower center right here at Moore Farms Botanical Garden. Tours start at the Ronald E. McNair Life History Center at 235… read more >
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Times They Are A-Changin’
Here at Moore Farms Botanical Garden, we are continuously improving our display beds and plant material. With the fall brings the opportunity to shake things up a bit. Fall is a great time to transplant woody plant material. With the summer heat gone, water loss is less from transpiration, which is a plant’s way of sweating, and root damage caused… read more >
Adiós Privet
Just over a year ago we embarked on a seemingly endless journey to eradicate Chinese privet from the garden and outlying farm property. In the southeast United States Chinese privet is an invasive exotic weed and as good stewards of the land it was necessary to undertake this daunting task. Part of the project included the removal of an old privet hedge centrally located in the garden. Demolition begins… …and… read more >
Tired of Eating Eggplant?
Tired of Eating Eggplant? As the summer garden sheds way to winter vegetables you may have grown tired of consuming prolific crops. If you have given your friends all they can eat, there are other uses for a late abundance of fruits and vegetables. Eggplant vase with spent blooms of Indian blanket flower (Gaillardia aestivalis ‘Grape Sensation’) Rayless… read more >
And the winner is. . .
With the presidential campaigns nearing an almost unbearable crescendo, we thought we’d have a little contest of our own. But instead of tackling the national debt, foreign policy and health insurance reform, we thought we’d focus on something far more serious: Pumpkins!!! Look at them, huddled up like so many unsuspecting orange sheep. And the inaugral Moore Farms… read more >