Florida Landscape Plants Red

Your location inland or near the coast and in which of the three sections northern central or southern florida you live.

Florida landscape plants red. The silver form is popular for the foliage color and contrast. Low maintenance landscape plants for south florida. Natives long time residents learn more about plants you have and window shop for new ones. Native to florida this plant offers orange red blossoms throughout the year with abundant flowering in the summer firebush is fast growing and can attain a height of 10 15 feet.

This publication was developed in response to requests from participants in the florida yards neighborhoods fyn program in miami dade county for a list of recommended low maintenance landscape plants suitable for south florida. Buttonwood conocarpus erectus is a drought tolerant florida native plant with leaves. Coleus is a heat tolerant and durable annual prized for its colorful foliage. You ll find zone 9 plants as well as those for zone 10 florida shrubs palms.

Some plants can easily handle being in florida s sun all the time. Newbies discover new to you plants and how to grow them in sandy soil and blazing sun. Viminalis the weeping bottlebrush. It also leads the united states in having the most native plants used for home landscape purposes according to the inside track almanac.

It grows to be about 3 ft tall. The plant pages give you all the basics and then some. Florida has over 4 000 species of plants notes the university of florida. Snowbirds find easy going plants that can thrive with only part time care.

Though they re in different plant families both are easy care plants. Grow this drought tolerant shrub in full sun or partial shade. These plants grow well in all parts of florida zones 8 10. The name bottlebrush is often used to describe plants with various showy flowers resembling a bottle brush.

These colorful foliage plants come in almost endless varieties and provide colors like pink cream bronze lime green and red to areas with some shade. Because native plants are already adapted to the environment they re less prone to disease and pests. It s a cactus like plant that produces small red flowers. The crown of thorns is a beautiful plant.

Two of the most frequently seen in the florida landscape are c. Annual flowers and foliage. Both with red flowers. These landscape plants can be used as stunning hedge accent or small tree.

Citrinus lemon bottlebrush also referred to as red bottlebrush c. Wispy ornamental grasses are versatile plants in any landscape that can provide four seasons of interest. Draws the eye with its orange red tubular. The following list includes many but not all excellent red options for the florida landscape.

They look very similar and have almost identical landscape uses so we ve grouped them together here. While it can be found in shades of green pink red and maroon there are many red options to bring vibrant color to both sunny and.