Florida Native Gardening
Like Duolingo, but for Florida Native Gardening. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
A short one: 12 levels across 2 sections, about 24 minutes end to end, roughly 5 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Florida Starter Kit and Living with the Landscape. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Florida Native Gardening
- Native plants have deep roots adapted to local soil
- Local species are naturally resistant to Florida's high humidity and fungal pressure
- Imported plants often struggle or die without supplemental irrigation during dry spells
- Saw Palmetto is an evergreen that provides structure in all seasons
- It is highly salt and drought tolerant once its root system is set
- It requires almost zero pruning or fertilizing compared to ornamental hedges
- Why native plants require less intervention than non-natives
- The role of Saw Palmetto as a durable landscape foundation
- Blanket Flowers are adapted to poor, sandy Florida soils
- Imported roses often require heavy fungicides to survive Florida's wet air
- Native flowers provide ecosystem benefits that imported flowers do not
- Florida-Friendly is a broad category that includes non-invasive imports
- Comparing maintenance needs of native flowers vs. imported ornamentals
- Removing the old grass is necessary to prevent it from choking out the new natives
- Groundcovers like Sunshine Mimosa or Frogfruit spread horizontally to fill gaps
- Distinguishing between 'Florida-Friendly' and 'Native' labels
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Florida Native Gardening the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
Why do Florida's native plants stay so happy in our sticky, wet air?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
Where Florida Native Gardening takes you
Transform your outdoor space into a resilient, low-maintenance paradise using the plants that evolved to thrive in Florida's heat, sand, and storms.
- 1
The Florida Starter Kit
- Your First Native Success
- Thriving in Sand and Salt
- 2
Living with the Landscape
- Gardening for Birds and Butterflies
- The Right Plant, Right Place Strategy
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Florida Native Gardening is taught in the Explain Like I'm 5 style: no big words. promise.. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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