Good shoreline landscaping on Florida’s Gulf Coast starts with the water, not the plants. Wave energy, tides, salinity and boat wakes decide what will hold your bank in place. Plants, and sometimes a rock or oyster-shell toe, do the work. In Sarasota and Manatee...
The fastest way to clear algae from a pond is a copper-based algaecide applied at the labeled rate. It only treats the symptom, though. Algae comes back until you cut the nitrogen and phosphorus feeding it. Lasting control combines three things: a correct diagnosis, a...
Southwest Florida does not get a gentle rainy season. It gets months of daily downpours, high water tables, and the occasional tropical system stacked on top of neighborhoods designed around retention ponds, swales, and control structures. Those facilities only work...
In Southwest Florida’s subtropical climate, heavy seasonal rains, tropical systems, and rapid development make effective stormwater management essential. Retention ponds, detention systems, infiltration basins, bioretention areas, tree boxes, and hydrodynamic...
