Marathon Garden Club

10/02/2026

🌴 Should you prune your palm trees before a hurricane?

Many Florida homeowners have heard that a heavy "hurricane cut" helps palms withstand storms. But research suggests that overpruning can weaken palms and increase their risk of damage during hurricanes.

Learn what should and shouldn't be removed before hurricane season and how to keep your palms healthy and storm-ready.

🔗 Read the full article: https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/monroeco/2026/09/29/does-your-palm-need-pruning-the-answer-may-surprise-you/

10/01/2026

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09/21/2026

09/17/2026

Some great information!

08/21/2026

08/19/2026

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There is a monarch working the zinnias this week that is not like the ones from June.

The summer generations live five or six weeks apiece. They breed, they fade, they are replaced. But the monarchs coming out of their chrysalises now, in the back half of August, are born into a different job entirely. They will not breed this year. Their bodies bank the fuel instead, and they will live eight or nine months, long enough to ride the cold fronts two thousand miles to the mountain forests of central Mexico, to the same groves their great-great-grandparents left in spring.

Nobody shows them the way. None of them has ever been there. They go anyway.

The departure builds over the next few weeks, and the milkweed and late flowers in your yard are still issuing boarding passes. Every caterpillar spared in August is a bet on a mountain in Mexico. 🦋

08/19/2026

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08/18/2026

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05/25/2026

Jody Cook's tropical fruit recipes demonstration on March 25, 2025 (and two photos of my Sweetie that day)