Landscape Plants South Florida

Identify the florida friendly plants including florida native plants that will work in your yard or landscape design.

Landscape plants south florida. Editorial book review one of the things i like best about the book is that the information about each plant is scientifically accurate and from experts who use the plants in the landscape. Trees and shrubs for florida gardens pineapple guava acca sellowiana adds landscape interest with its gray green leaves and waxy pink and white flowers and produces an egg size edible fruit that tastes like a guava. West indian jasmine ixora blue plumbago plumbago auriculata snow bush rosy snow bush breynia disticha dwarf morning glories evolvulus. Although most annuals require moist soil a few are considered low maintenance.

Basic care watering trimming fertilizing. Florida landscape trees the frangipani also called plumeria is a short stocky flowering tree grown throughout tropical areas of florida. Melaleuca trees grow in the southern portion of the state says the smithsonian marine station website. Bougainvillea is a perennial sprawling woody vine or shrub that has been and still is a florida landscape favorite for many years.

That s what we ve used in this section though there are less common others you might like to add. Servicing all of palm beach county including boca raton delray beach wellington town of palm beach palm beach gardens and jupiter. With an incredible display of vivid color put on throughout most of the year bougainvillea is native to s. How big it grows or at what size you can keep it trimmed.

South florida landscape plants are unique so each one has its own featured page. Crotons wart ferns false agaves odorata begonias and gold mound duranta form this palm beach gardens florida landscape. Landscape plants for south florida makes the cover of florida weekly newspaper. If and when it flowers.

Whether it likes sun or shade. It has leathery oblong shaped leaves and fragrant sculpted flowers notes floridata. The database contains a list of recommended trees palms shrubs flowers groundcovers grasses and vines developed by university of florida ifas horticulture experts. 18 annuals are listed shrubs hedges.

You ll find a photo or two with a detailed description of. Only drought tolerant annuals were included. Spectabilis grows larger than b. Most landscape design south florida style is a mixture of formal and informal tropical and classic.

In south florida many annuals are cool season plants and thus will not tolerate the heat and or wet humid conditions of summer. I will give the name of a few others here that did not make the list but are also worth considering.