eakspeasy
Member since: Feb 11 | Last seen: Aug 12 | Years gardening: 27
Hi, I’m Jeff. I’m a plant nerd.
Big time.
It’s unstoppable!
It’s in my blood… =)
My family has a very long history of agriculture and farming… to the early 1600s in what is now Virginia south to Florida, and centuries prior throughout Europe.
I’m the caretaker (et al) of Nehrling Gardens, the six-acre National Register of Historic Places listed property that was once the home of famed horticulturist Dr Henry Nehrling. I spend my days wandering the same paths as Theodore Mead, David Fairchild, Thomas Edison and Liberty Hyde Bailey once did. =)
I co-own a business offering garden education, design, installation and maintenance services and a small nursery. I have three research projects underway at the Susan O. and Frederick A. Hauck Botanical Research Center at Rollins College. I’m also involved with the Florida School of Holistic Living, Homegrown Local Food Co-Op, and Lockhart Acres Farm.
NehrlingGardens.org
HolisticLivingSchool.org
HomegrownCoOp.org
LockhartAcresFarm.org
Gardens
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Zone 9b Lockhart Acres Farm is a project of Your Local Foods, Inc., a non-profit organization. It is intended to serve the Lockhart community in northwest ...
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Zone 9b Areas along the driveway, including an ‘island’ in the loop, were planted with more than 600 Amaryllis bulbs. Dr Henry Nehrling purcha...
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Nehrling Aquaponic Demonstration garden
Zone 9b This garden is under development. Nehrling Gardens hopes to create a closed-loop aquaponic system to demonstrate the feasibility and scalability of...
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Nehrling Container Demonstration garden
Zone 9b This garden is under development. Nehrling Gardens hopes to create a series of container gardens to demonstrate the feasibility and scalability of ...
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Zone 9b The Greenhouse at Nehrling Gardens has weathered quite a few storms since it was moved to its current location in 1982. Of the 10 known Nally-era g...
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Zone 9b This garden is under development. The Hauck Botanical Research Center of Rollins College is donating several Florida Native pitcher plants (Sarrace...
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Zone 9b Even though it was the Nally family (second owners) who did most of the work with orchids at Palm Cottage, orchids are part of the heritage of Nehr...
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Zone 9b Between the historic House and the Greenhouse is a large open space. Anchored by an immense Podocarpus nagi, several Senegal Date Palms (Phoenix re...
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Zone 9b The Propagation Garden is on a large concrete pad, half in full-sun and half under lath. Here, seedlings and cuttings will be developed before movi...
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Nehrling Terraced Demonstration garden
Zone 9b This garden is under development. East of the Greenhouse, Nehrling Gardens hopes to create terraced, trellised, and pergola-ed raised-bed style dem...
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Nehrling's Palm Cottage garden
Zone 9b Dr Henry Nehrling (1853-1929) purchased his Gotha property in 1885, and by 1902 was well underway with researching and growing caladiums, camellias...
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Zone 9b In 1998, a student designed and installed a native butterfly garden adjacent to the greenhouse. Over the years, additional plants have been added t...
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Zone 9b The Hauck Research Center, better known as the Greenhouse, is an extension of the Biology and Environmental Studies departments. Many of the classe...
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Zone 9b established by the Sustainability Program at Rollins College, located on the north side of the campus near the Bach Festival building
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