is a pool cage necessary in the satellite beach Florida area?
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Comments (8)Here's a clue, don't shop a Home Depot expecting good planting design advice! Full service garden center or nursery, or hire a good landscape designer to consult. Fast and cheap usually correlates to larger mature sizes and constant maintenance, majority of smaller mature sized plantings with year round presence may take more time, or not be cheap. If cheap and fast is the most important requirement, spend the time getting good local advice, and work with a better gardening service that will follow your directives. Even cut-rate gardening services can do a good job if you make the effort to properly communicate, and they are given the time and reimbursement necessary to do the job right. I see these sorts of complaints all the time, and generally know it isn't just the gardener's fault, but unrealistic expectations and too cheap maintenance budgets. Plant types like Agaves, Bromeliads, Daylilies, Sanseverias, Crinums might fit the bill, they all top out at predetermined heights, but require research to determine initial cost, speed of growth, other characteristics which may appeal or reject them from consideration. Local Florida native plants are worth consideration also....See MoreHelp...I need lots of ideas & tips. New to SW Florida
Comments (1)Welcome to Garden Web, Maja! I live in NC, so can't really help you with your Florida-specific questions. However, I would suggest that you choose a zone from the link below to put after your user name (edit your member page) and put FL as well. Then people can see at a glance where you are gardening. http://www.usna.usda.gov/Hardzone/hzm-se1.html Also, there is a Florida forum which seems to be pretty active. You might get a quicker response if you post there. I've posted the link below. Your property sounds wonderful! Good luck and have fun with the landscaping. Carolinakate Here is a link that might be useful: Gardening in Florida...See Morequestions about Florida vacation
Comments (67)Thank you! We are booked and I am so excited! St Petersburg for 6 days in a big house with my sailing friends and their families and then 6 days on Anna Maria island with just my immediate family. I would have reserved the Manasota Key one, I really liked it, but the rental agent was a bad communicator. On a funny note, we have decided to bring our cat. He is so tragically sad when we are away overnight that it would be comic, if it weren't so very tragically sad. He's not destructive or mad, just goes off his food and is lethargic and sometimes wails til he is hoarse. So we are driving 16 hours to Florida with our kitty in the car. When he's with us he's a perfectly content little guy. But we are going to start taking practice drives in the car. It was surprisingly easy to find a rental that would permit him....See Moreflorida ?? anyone with no cage?
Comments (47)Our mosquito truck comes through every week here at least once a week. During the off season not so much, but in summer we hear him all the time. Everyone will always have their own personal preference. I like the way screens look, but for us the open look was what we were going for with this pool. After the hurricanes we had a few years ago, I didn't want to have to deal with the stress of the cage coming down. I admit, I also am an avid sun lover. I like to float in the pool and get some sun (with some sunscreen on of course...an 8 is perfect for my skin type :) and I've tried doing this in my parents pool with the cage and I may as well never have even went out that day. I grew up with pools without screens back in the day and like the open look. Yes, mosquitoes are bad here in Florida, I'm not going to deny that, however most people can get a mosquito control unit of some type for a fraction of what a cage costs. We have a handheld fogger (around $70) and we use it just before dusk and it does the job. We can sit out there in the evening, have some wine, swim and enjoy ourselves without getting eaten alive. So those of you who say you can't enjoy your pool in the evening without a cage are mistaken. The pesticide issue is null because no matter what, the mosquito control truck sprays anyway, so pesticides are all over. Plus, it's not like the fog lingers either and you are not out there greenhousing the mosquito repellent. It dissipates within seconds. The propane tanks work well too and you don't have to do anything but allow them to run by themselves. All this at a fraction of the cost of a screen. Again, I am not knocking screens. Some people have to have screens (like my parents in their current house) because of their property, trees, etc. I understand that. I like both looks, but the open look was what WE were going for personally. We even had footers poured JUST IN CASE we changed our minds because to do that later would've been $$$ and a PITA anyway. I just think it is unfair for people to jump to conclusions and say that a pool cannot be enjoyed in the evening if you don't have a screen. This is not a true statement and I'm sure many of you without screens would agree. There are methods out there to keep your pool area pest free in the evening that are as simple as flipping a switch or pushing a button....See MoreSherry8aNorthAL
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