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For more than 30 years, Florida’s horticulture, landscape and environmental professionals have relied on FANN’s Native Plant & Service Directory to identify and source commercially available native plants. FANN members are listed in the directory and native plant availability published […]
Native Landscapes & Garden Center Internship The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) Native Landscapes & Garden Center seeks an energetic and hardworking intern to assist in day-to-day nursery operations and work with our landscape installation and maintenance services. The Native Landscapes […]
Pycnanthemum muticum has been named 2018 Plant of the Year by The Garden Club of America (GCA). Annually since 1995, the GCA has identified a stellar North American native plant to receive its Montine McDaniel Freeman Medal for Plant of […]
As announced at the 2018 MANTS trade show and reported in Garden Center magazine, American Beauties Native Plants, a branding program for growers and sellers of native plants (including cultivars), has established a $25,000 endowment to fund native plant research […]
On Saturday, January 27, 2018, the FANN Board of Directors appointed world traveler Kirsten-Sharp Ortega as director at large, representing a nursery seat. Kirsten is a habitat designer at Green Isle Gardens Nursery in Groveland, Lake County. She provided this […]
Ayavalla Gardens Plantation in Tallahassee is hosting a two-day Sustainable Agriculture Conference on Saturday-Sunday, Feb 3-4, 2018, featuring lecture and hands-on projects with Mark Shephard, author of Restoration Agriculture: Real World Permaculture for Farmers. Shephard has been a permaculture designer […]
To directly educate the public and drive increased demand for native landscaping, the Native Plant Horticulture Foundation determined in 2018 that it would be desirable to annually establish a highly visible, attractive and inspirational native landscape that demonstrates best practices […]
FANN board member Janine Griffiths, Green Thumb Inc. in Davie, chairs a newly formed Education Committee tasked with providing education for both FANN members and our customers, including industry professionals and the gardening public. Supporting Janine are Alyssa Lavoro, Alexander […]
FANN is pleased to announce that David Marsh Drylie, Jr., landscape architect and owner, Green Images Native Landscape Plants, a wholesale and retail native nursery in Christmas, is the winner of the 2017 Mike Kenton Award of Recognition. A volunteer […]
Native Gardens, Sunday, February 18th, showtime 2:00pm in Sarasota Join the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) and the Florida Association of Native Nurseries (FANN) for a fun afternoon of theatre! The Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota is staging a production of […]