" Angela polo is with us today from the University of Florida neighborhood and yards program and it's going to be a lot of fun. Gardening today now what are some of the principles that your program tries to promote."

" Okay we have nine principles that the Florida yards and neighborhoods program. Promote its. An air right plant right place in the lottery efficiently. Recycling protecting me waterfront reducing storm water runoff. I attracting wildlife to your landscape. And manage keen -- your fertilizers."

" And your past that's a lot to remember and senate and the program -- now let me go back to the First Amendment right plant right place everybody assumes you come to Florida which is one of the fastest growing states in the country and anything you throw in the ground is gonna take off fly while truck but in many in many of these places that you have new developments and old developments this is the soil is sandy -- bridge."

" Yes and this so well is very typical of new construction and new residential construction in Florida -- And we also have compaction issues that we're dealing with here we won't percolate -- it will not calculate -- right there water just comes and it stands there."

" Yes so one of the favorite plants seems to be that a single bomb which we're gonna see later in the show you planet."

" And this is a cat the native palm of Florida is stable Compton yes the cabbage now did you do the overall design. I would be ever are designed. I weren't -- writing Ken Starr from the sun state landscaping Bob franken is there how aria good."

" Tell us a little bit about the the overall planning here is this is it's a small lot that is not a big -- and is on its core a lot of it has a lot."

" After that we typically are typically you have. Well we dreaded this Christmas -- screening issues of privacy for the homeowners in the certain areas that we need it. If you give them some functional lawn areas for where they need that cut that space and you can minimize lawn don't you yes in the Florida yards -- we want to minimizing the lawn and the turf areas as much as possible yes. Provide larger bed areas which will allow you to have. A larger landscaping as far as more beautification right and would give you some nicer things here."

" Excellent now the -- the choice of plant material is very important a lot of people. Will buy a development house and start going to these beautiful garden centers and coming back with these gorgeous specimens and then next thing you know you've got a huge tree growing up next your house in a hurricane comes on your trouble. The idea of how do you plan against that."

" Well with the hurricane issues that we've had that's something that we're now dealing with and where we're learning to take our landscaping away from the houses and use more functional plants -- this wax myrtle over here. This gives us a nice plant that. Provides us an evergreen shrub. Does to screen our Stucco yes we also have some native -- this is a native plant retains its foliage throughout the years well does it -- Does not bloom does have some berries that are that attract the wildlife it's a great color against our kind of terracotta Stucco over there. And then what what are these little ones here this is vibrant suspense of this is used to hide did air conditioners we've gone with -- dwarf variety here because that's going to allow us to get a long term exposure out of it. -- advantages that this went on just get a big full grown one religious right -- it reduces our maintenance for Bob purposes of something that you don't have to trim three to five times a year only one to two times a year to keep them maintained while life makes a lot of sense we also have here. Our irrigation system as well. This is was donated by -- this is a drip line it's coming -- it's a pressure compensating drip line and you can see this little weep hole here yes how all the plants -- water."

" Okay it's and I know we've got our friend Greg around isn't just a little bit about how this whole system works right on. This is Greg Peterson from the logic and he's gonna talk about a soil moisture in the air. So how does that work -- I mean normally see an irrigation system on a bagel line and little sprinkler heads come up when they spraying a lot of water gets wasted down the road side. What's this sensor do."

" For so what we're doing with Lawnlogic it's a soil moisture monitoring and control system it overrides the irrigation timer. When there's enough moisture in -- these things are stuck into the ground this would be an underground sensor in this case Bob and Teresa have an eight zone system so there's eight of these wired around the house and that's correct to. A control center that's correct. Each of the zones is individually set for moisture level. If at the time when the irrigation. Timer comes on if there's enough moisture in the soil because it's been raining the day before or whatever -- It will override that particular zone that's excellent so it's not organized like rain gauge or anything it's actually measuring the moisture underneath. The church that's right wherever it happens to be. That's correct and does it also worked for further shrubs that Brian was just pointing out where we've got this kind of drip. Irrigation stuff yes it -- with turf -- works with -- and also works with any type of -- sand -- long or clay fantastic so this is a responsible thing to be doing instead of just having sprinkler heads all over your house. That are it's."

" Wasting yeah -- every day rain it's measuring the water down at the root system where the plants need it yet so that they written consent is why. We don't need water."

" Now the last question I had was when you're in an area like this we've got waterfront you got canals people like to grow the turf right up against."

" Yes -- look at any Florida yards program. Try to discourage the turf coming right up to the -- had read they downside of that is runoff of pesticides and fertilizers and is now yeah that's the best way to avoid it is best way to avoid it would be to make a low shrub bed there used ground covers or any type of alternative plant that's going to require less fertilizers less water less pruning great thanks guys."