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Florida Friendly Landscaping presenters urge HOAs to adopt nine principles, offer model covenants and training
Summary
Speakers at Oviedo’s Water Expo promoted Florida Friendly Landscaping (FFL) principles, resources for HOAs, and Cooperative Extension support, and explained that Florida statute 373.185 protects homeowners’ rights to propose FFL practices while allowing architectural review.
Claire Mitchell, education manager for Florida Friendly Landscaping (FFL) in Gainesville, and Heather Caliman, an Orange County horticulture agent with the University of Florida Extension, told Oviedo attendees that FFL promotes water conservation and water‑quality protection through nine best‑practice principles and a suite of implementation tools for homeowners, HOAs and managers.
"Right plant, right place" was highlighted as the program’s central tenet. Mitchell described the nine principles — including watering efficiently, fertilizing appropriately (after a soil test), using mulch, recycling yard waste and protecting shorelines with buffer zones — as ways to reduce irrigation and chemical runoff that contribute to harmful algal blooms. "Your yards can look…
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