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Here's special news from the Herb Garden: May is here! Can you hear summer knocking on Florida’s door? With the hot weather comes a...
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VISTA Gardens
- May 4
- 1 min
Forget Cicadas, We Got Lubbers
Our fiends at the UF/IFAS Extension Hillsborough County have so great information on how to control our Lubber problems before they eat...
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VISTA Gardens
- Mar 17
- 3 min
Environmental Icon Dr. Jane Goodall to Celebrate 90th Birthday Year Spreading a Message of “Hope Through Action” Across the Globe
Sign a birthday card for Jane at VISTA's 10th Anniversary! “People frequently approach me with an anecdote about how Jane Goodall...
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VISTA Gardens
- Mar 2
- 1 min
AARP Florida Volunteers Harvest 150+ Lbs. Of Food for Those in Need
The VISTA Gardens AARP gardens continue to shine as they have now grown over 150 pounds of food that has been donated to the needy! Read...
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VISTA Gardens
- Dec 23, 2023
- 2 min
VISTA Thanks YOU!
Among the many worthy causes to support, you continue to appreciate VISTA Gardens with your financial contributions. Together, we are...
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VISTA Gardens
- Nov 21, 2023
- 4 min
GARDENING LESSONS LEARNED
“The biggest obstacle to good gardening is the desire to know the answers and not the questions.” Monty Don VISTA members shared...
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VISTA Gardens
- Aug 27, 2023
- 2 min
X Marks the Spot: VISTA Gardens is on The Homegrown National Park Map
VISTA Gardens is on the Homegrown National Park map, joining a conservation movement that inspires small changes in our own backyards to...
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VISTA Gardens
- Jul 15, 2023
- 2 min
Firebush Hamelia patens
A Florida native plant that offers orange-red flowers throughout most of the year, Firebush is a large, soft-stemmed shrub that can reach...
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VISTA Gardens
- Jun 17, 2023
- 2 min
AARP® at VISTA Gardens
In its continued effort to support and uplift the community, AARP® Florida sponsors two raised garden beds that produced 175 pounds of...
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VISTA Gardens
- Feb 9, 2023
- 1 min
A Letter of Thanks to Barb Mahlmeister from Bill West
As a founder and former C-I-E-I-O of VISTA, the current board nicely keeps me updated on their board notes which I greatly appreciate....
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VISTA Gardens
- Jan 22, 2023
- 1 min
VISTA Out In The Community 1/11/2023
Mike Arnold, Sierra Shellabarger, and Kyle Reed represented VISTA Gardens at USF's Bull Market sponsored by USF's Center for Leadership...
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VISTA Gardens
- Jan 22, 2023
- 1 min
VISTA Has a New Tree!
With grateful appreciation to Michele Vatalaro and her fellow members of the Moonlight Garden Circle of the Tampa Garden Circle for their...
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VISTA Gardens
- Jan 21, 2023
- 1 min
USF Rotaract volunteers help maintain VISTA's pond 1/15/2023
Janet Stanko, Chair, VISTA's Pond Committee, received wonderful help from 8-11 USF Rotaract members who weeded and tended the pollinator...
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VISTA Gardens
- Sep 25, 2022
- 2 min
Life is Better with Herbs
Have you checked out the communal herb garden yet? Along the main entry path and across from the pavilion lies our shared herb garden—a...
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VISTA Gardens
- Sep 25, 2022
- 1 min
Compost and soil are not the same thing.
Compost is a mix of decaying nutrient-rich soil with a medium density that is naturally made using oxygen, bacteria, water, and organic...
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VISTA Gardens
- Aug 19, 2022
- 2 min
Happy National Honey Bee Day!
Honey bees. Where would we be without them? According to the US Department of Agriculture, one in three bites of food in the United...
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VISTA Gardens
- Aug 9, 2022
- 1 min
Sunn Hemp Cover Crop
An update on our experiment Our sunn hemp summer cover crops are fascinating stuff. As you may know, Jennifer and others decided to try...
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VISTA Gardens
- Jul 16, 2022
- 1 min
AARP Garden Plans
Lisa Meredith, Program Assistant, Hillsborough County IFAS Extension (Seffner) created two garden plans based on the vegetables and herbs...
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VISTA Gardens
- Jul 10, 2022
- 1 min
VISTA in the News (Feb. 2021)
VISTA Gardens was recently spotlighted by Charley Belcher on Fox Good Morning Tampa Bay. Thank you to those who participated both on and...
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VISTA Gardens
- Jul 10, 2022
- 1 min
Compost Project Update
The Compost Committee has completed a major upgrade to the compost system during the summer of 2020.VISTA Gardens is thankful to the...
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