Common Florida Landscaping Plants

Natives long time residents learn more about plants you have and window shop for new ones.
Common florida landscaping plants. These wonderful plants span the botany rainbow from ferns to wildflowers grasses to groundcovers palms to vines trees to shrubs. A wide range variety could work in your landscape from vines and groundcovers to shrubs trees and palms. Native plants are often a good bet for the florida gardener. You ll find zone 9 plants as well as those for zone 10 florida shrubs palms.
Rosy periwinkle catharanthus roseus is originally from madagascar but is now cultivated around the world. Drought tolerant plants for your florida native landscape 1. Both with red flowers. Many can serve as good sources of food for wildlife.
Some popular natives in florida include beautyberry muhly grass coontie and southern magnolia. Landscaping with the native plants of florida is very popular for their reputation of low maintenance in fact you may be using many in your south florida landscape without realizing they re native plants. Its showy flowers come in shades such as pink lavender and white. Lemon bottlebrush so named because of the distinct citrus smell of the leaves when bruised can be grown as as shrub or trained as a small tree up to about 15 feet tall.
The plant pages give you all the basics and then some. Citrinus lemon bottlebrush also referred to as red bottlebrush c. Viminalis the weeping bottlebrush. Other tubers bulbs and rhizomes that grow in all areas of florida include amaryllis aztec lily sprekelia formosissima blood lily haemanthus multiflorus crinum crinum selections dahlia dahlia selections elephant s ear alocasia colocasia and xanthosoma spp gladiolus gladiolus selections kaffir lily clivia miniata walking iris neomarica gracilis peacock iris moraea.
Two of the most frequently seen in the florida landscape are c. Snowbirds find easy going plants that can thrive with only part time care. Hamelia patens or firebush is an easy to grow shrub that is extremely colorful. Callicarpa americana or beautyberry grows to.
Keep the soil evenly moist and grow in full sun to partial shade. Gaillardia pulchella or blanket flower is a florida native.