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| Butterfly attracting plants will add plenty to your home'slandscape.
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Learn About Gardening
Create a Florida Friendly Yard! Become a People for Trees member for only $30 and you'll receive a personal landscape consultation to help you create your own Florida-Friendly yard! As an added bonus, your $30 membership will also entitle you to a native Florida tree! Contact Alice White at treelady@sunline.net
A Florida Friendly Yard requires less maintenance than traditional green lawn landscaping since it replaces your lawn areas with drought-tolerant and/or Florida native plants. You can have a yard that is more compatible with Florida's fragile environment. As an added bonus, you'll save water and help to protect the environment through the reduced use of pesticides and fertilizers.
The following landscape choices can tolerate the Florida sun as they are drought-tolerant. This means they can withstand long, dry periods without water, once established.
These plants will also attract butterflies!Porterweed (Purple, Blue, Coral), Pentas, Milkweed, Tropical Sage. These plants can complete your landscape plans! Firebush, Firespike,Firecracker, Golden Dewdrop, Plumbago, Lantana,Thryallis,Cassia. Great Shrubs: Walter's Vibirnum, Coral Porterweed, Purple Porterweed, Firebush. Great ground covers: Beach Sunflower, Coral Honeysuckle, Blue Daze. Vines: Passion Vine, Pipevine, Confederate Jasmine, Star Jasmine. |
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| Penta is a beautiful drought tolerant butterfly-attracting flower made perfectly for Florida yards.
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More Good Plant Choices Native grasses can add variety to your landscape plan and love the sun: Fakahatchee, Dwarf Fakahatchee, Muhly, and Purple Lovegrass.
Good Tree Choices
In addition to the native slash pine and long-leaf pine trees found in our pine flatwoods region, many other trees can be added to your home¹s landscape :(N-Native) -(N) Live Oak, (N) Red Maple, (N) Bald Cypress, (N) Florida Elm, (N)East Palatka Holly, (N) Sweet Gum, (N) Walter¹s Viburnum,(N)Laurel Oak, (N)Southern Magnolia, (N) Dahoon Holly. Most of these native trees are for sale through People for Trees. Only $12.00 for a 3-gallon tree, some varieties available in one-gallon sizes for only $5.00. Members receive 3-gallon trees for only $10.00 each. Call for availability. 426-9752.
Grasses can add variety to your Florida-friendly yard landscape plan. These native varieties love the sun:
Fakahatchee, Muhly, Purple Lovegrass.
Good Shrubs
Native Firebush (including a dwarf variety), Walter¹s Viburnum, Necklace Pod, Marlberry, Beauty Berry, Lantana, Wild Coffee, Golden Dewdrop, Buttonwood ( green or silver), Simpson Stopper.
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