When Melissa and David Bowser decided to renovate the John's Island condo that had belonged to Melissa's parents, they handed over the keys to a team of carefully chosen professionals, crossed their fingers and waved goodbye. It really came down to the trust factor.
Along with added sunshine, Jill and Peter Weise’s move to Vero Beach came with the construction of a family home perfectly suited to their needs.
Florida’s real estate market is robust, radiating good health in two important areas, according to the Florida Realtors Association.
These miniature trees are living works of art that may be handed down from generation to generation, carefully tended through centuries of history.
Lakela’s mint is a severely endangered aromatic shrub whose only known habitat is a strip of land about 3 miles long and less than half a mile wide in northern St. Lucie and southern Indian River counties.
Barbara Kaytes, a highly respected and talented floral designer from the New York metropolitan area, moved to Windsor in 2016
Country care roses provides a garden of knowledge on rose care and history.
Jay McLaughlin knows something about celebrity. The last time he was featured in a Vero Beach Magazine article in March 2010, we called him a “fashion king.” At the time, the New York-based fashion designer and high-end retail mogul was the “new” news in town thanks to his purchase and renovation of a Vero Beach home and the opening of J. McLaughlin, a women’s clothing store on Ocean Drive.
Florida is home to more than 150 species of invasive, non-native plants that inhabit nearly 15 percent of the state’s public conservation lands and waterways, crowding out the native habitats that wildlife depend upon for food and shelter.
The month of May in Vero Beach might well be considered the beginning of summer, especially from the gardener’s perspective.
A good gardener revels in the beauty of flowers but, at the same time, is well aware that that beauty is fleeting.
This is the story of the garden that refused to die.
Jill Mattek takes Christmas seriously, so seriously she starts making merry with ornaments and greenery the day after Halloween and doesn’t stop until well into February.
Some people abhor the thought of a black tie affair and avoid such events as they would a plague.
According to Nancilee Wydra, author of eight books about Feng Shui, the concept offers eight emotional benefits: personal empowerment, a positive future, strengthened relationships, a clear and dynamic legacy, expressing compassion, strong positive self-image, culling wisdom and gleaning the best from your personal past and health in physical, mental and spiritual areas.
Remember on Monty Python when they used to say: “And now for something completely different...”
Vero Beach is unique for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that it straddles the Carolina temperate zone and the Caribbean subtropical zone.
They say that good things come to those who wait. Nancy Lesher will tell you it’s true.
From the window of his home office, Charlie Sheehan looks down a steep mountain landscape toward a distant valley.
It’s not a pleasant subject but hey, somebody has to do the dirty work.
It’s amazing the wonders you can discover once you turn off a main road. In John’s Island there’s such a turn, one that takes you down a shadowed lane lined with rows of podocarpus columns, sculpted sentries surrounded by pink begonias.
When Jill and Paul Kaneb purchased a pristine property on the east side of the Indian River Lagoon, siting the residence and guest house was of paramount importance.
