Easy Plants for Florida: Native Plants for a Beautiful and Durable Landscape

so you may be interested in finding some low maintenance plants that are drought tolerant attract butterflies save the bees feed the birds attract hummingbirds what else can they do look pretty be interesting man that sounds like a lot but what i'm really talking about is florida anita plants and today i need to go by a lot because i got rid of all the rest of my lawn i'm over my grass i'm done i'm done and i don't want to just replace it with a lawn alternative i actually want to go and put in a really pretty wildflower native plant landscape so what i'm going to be doing today um is i'm going to be hitting up two native nurseries wilcox over in largo and then a little red wagon over in tampa and i'm going to be picking out a lot of plants but what'll be good for you is if you're looking for ideas i'm going to be showing a lot more plants that i'm going to buy in theory that's the idea so if you want to get some ideas of some native plants that may work for you um that can do all these great things hang with me or if you just want to hang out and have some fun we're going shopping let's go [Music] so i just did a really quick sweep of the place just so i gotta get an idea of what they have here um so i'm gonna turn you around i'm gonna show you a lot of different plants um i'm gonna show you some of the ones i'm gonna grab and then i'm to impulse buy a bunch you know why not so i know a favorite of people's is always to start with tropical sage this one seeds i will tell you a lot i have this one already which is why i will not be buying it today but this is a good hummingbird butterfly bee plant very pretty and it comes in a couple different colors it can be this red there's this white and then there's also like a pale pink i don't see any here right at the moment and i'm not planning on getting any from my project but this sign did have me double thinking that just because who doesn't love a clearance um but i already have some so i don't want to just add more of the same plant that was one of my goals for today was do something different so no more tropical stage for me but i would highly recommend it if you don't already have it oh i found the pink ones right over here when it comes to one of the plants i'm definitely getting starry rosenweed this is one of the ones i did want to grab it's going to be a two to four feet now when it comes to getting all these plants i'm gonna be getting a lot of variety and not necessarily a lot of any one type of plant so for those who are looking for ground covers another one you may want to consider is something like a pineland heliotrope this is not for walking on ground covers but like you know when you have those beds where you want to just put like a low growing flower this would be a good one and honestly i've been thinking about you know these heliotropes there's a couple different varieties here that these would be good to be putting on the edges of this project but i'm going back and forth how much i think i want to go get some of the bigger plants first before i start grabbing some of these here's another heliotrope this is the yellow look how pretty that is ugh super pretty so another one it's a low grower six to 12 inches so another one you might want to consider if you have an area where you need something to fill in but not necessarily walk on so another i'm going to be adding in this is a host plant this is partridge pea so this is for all of our yellow butterflies and a few of our skippers and some of our smaller butterflies i'm really excited for this one it's got a different look it's going to add to the yellow of our starry rose and weed but different texture and that's one of the things i really wanted to do today was get different textures in and not just have everything look the same now you may be seeing this and go what is this mess this is graceful blazing star it's two to four feet tall this is gonna be so pretty oh my gosh i've been wanting to get blazing star forever so you can see some of the potting information oh yep yep we're adding this one for sure anything we need to probably need to but actually i'm gonna mix it up and switch it over to elephant blazing star which gets a little bit taller um but it's got just a slightly different look so we're gonna add this one too one of the ones that i had a while back but i think i killed it this is our azure native stage this is gonna do well in my semi-shade area near um near the ponciana because that area gets a lot more shade so it'll be good for a stage like this ah there we go got a couple [Music] so we've talked about some of our native milkweeds before and some of the most common ones you can find for florida are butterfly wheat our pink swamp milkweed and then aquatic milkweed aka white spot milkweed but there are over 20 native species to florida and one that you can find not as common but you will find it is world milkweed and this is one that yup yup i think i'm gonna add this in too if you're looking for one that's going to be a great attractor for bees and butterflies this is bees balm aka dotted horsemen native to florida i have this in my garden already i would highly recommend it it is gorgeous before it even puts on its bracks and it has a lot of texture and color and you can use it as an oregano substitute this is hands down one of my favorite native wildflowers this is it's called leavenworth stick seed which is a terrible name which is why i usually call it by its scientific name choreopsis leavenworthy it is so pretty and honestly mine has been blooming spring through fall and though i have a lot of it and i said i wasn't gonna buy anything that i already had this is one i'll buy it again just so i can get it in the area for this next project there are some definite florida favorites hanging out up here from our native porter weed which is a trailing great ground cover there's also i love beech mist flower it's actually endangered in its native landscape in the keys but it's so pretty bees love it dune sunflower amazing ground cover i can't think of anyone who wouldn't love it and one of our native types of lantana if you're looking for a low shrubby plant this is the one that's called button sage so if you've ever been wondering what the white one looks like this is what it looks like super pretty oh it's got like a little bit of pale pink they're just so tiny and pretty and cute so we're getting into some of the more shrubby plants one that i have if you're also looking for some additional native lantana this is our other native type this is pineland lantana it stays really low so if you're looking for kind of a low shrub plant for like the edge of a house or if you've got like a border area this is like a nice one you can mound it really nicely um but one of the ones that i did want to grab was i think this is false rosemary and when i was thinking about this project for this area i was thinking more about silver tones different kind of textures and this is right up my alley for what i'm looking for so i wanted to get one of those maybe two of those and then i also wanted to grab oh look at these florida penny royal super cute super soft what's over here oh silk grass silk rest was one i've been debating i have to think about that maybe uh calaman or calamantia this is one i have very pretty smells gorgeous [Music] get one don't get one get one don't get get one but i think this will be really nice with the false rosemary look at that color combo it's a little bit greener with the silver they have similar flower structure bees are going to love that go for apples let me write up on those ones huh i don't know about that one if you know about gopher apples tell me why you love them tell me why you don't like them what do we think of that texture of silk grass i think this will be a great addition to the area yeah i think we're going to try this one i feel like i'm ending up with a lot of yellow but i feel like this with combined with some of these other ones is going to be super pretty texture wise you may be thinking this is a grass you're wrong this is actually pine tree this is what they look like when they're babies and what's really cool about pine trees is they stay really low like this and then they shoot up really fast it's their way of dealing with the fact that we're a state that has regular fires and so they evolve so that they stay low and then boom jump up five feet this is one of the ones i wanted to get here scrub blueberry oh they are so pretty and i love how the leaves on scrub blueberries so these are edible blueberries for us they are oh is there a blueberry on here no just water but i just love how they have this like green silver texture and then when the leaves like look at that i love this i have this in my yard i'm probably gonna transplant some of it but honestly i've been sitting here going like i feel like this just belongs in this garden so i'm going to add some to this project oh i was looking to see if there were any of smaller versions of the dwarf blueberry and yep yep yep we're getting railroad vine someone had given me this idea a while back that throw this in the middle of a native garden so pretty do i want one do i want two they're so tiny we're gonna get two of these we're gonna get two these two have flowers these two are coming home with me yep yep yup yup yup i have to get them do i want to grab one do we want to grab two i have three i can transplant at home so i'm just going to get one and then i'll try to transplant the other ones when i do this project and that will give us four and i think they will be really nice mixed in with all this other really really really pretty plants look at all that texture [Music] and if you're wondering these will be purple so we got a lot of purple we got a lot of yellow that's gonna be blue we got the railroad vines that are purple yeah a lot of yellow i like yellow flowers they just make me so happy i am looking at this gopher apple thinking is this the kind of thing i want to try in this garden so it makes it edible fruit that's really good for our gopher tortoises now i don't have any tortoises in my neighborhood so uh very unlikely this is going to help any of them i think i'm going to pass on this but if you have an area that has gopher tortoises consider go for apple it is hot i just saw this and i am not been considering i've been wanting to get a simpson stopper if you don't know about some some stoppers they are great for birds and get really cute flowers they make an edible fruit for our migratory birth and but they get a little bit bigger and i've been thinking about getting one for a different area but they have a dwarf one and this really got me thinking hmm do white do i do i i don't know oh so what's really cool about these is they get really pretty fruit actually if you want to see a simpson stopper i'm 99 sure this is a simpson stopper this is what they normally you can see the size and i actually have been thinking about getting one for where my lamp post is um there's currently like a red crape myrtle there a red black whatever color one and i was thinking hey i could get this and kind of put it there it'd be a nice statement piece but then i've been debating because it might shade out the vegetable garden but this look at it i mean i got pretty and you see here's the berries the fruits starting to form it is technically edible for humans i don't think it's like a yummy flavor thing like where we would be like yeah i have to have it like a mulberry but for birds really important but i've been considering doing something like this because you know having a plant like this near the vegetable garden it continues to bring in my songbirds who eat a lot of the bugs you ask people to say how do you do pest management birds birds are great for that so i don't know may still go my original game plan but uh it says i can take some semi shade and that ponciana adds shade and i can put it on the far end i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i'd love to hear your guys's thoughts we'll find out by the end of this video whether i caved in on it or not so for this project we had been thinking about grasses so this is purple love grass you can see it's got like a very nice this as you can see there's different types so here we got muli there's fakahatchee grass so depending on what your project's trying to do you know you've got some different so fakahatcheemuli uh i didn't catch what name of this one is but you got some different types of textures you can see here that you could create or you could do a mix of them for a project especially if you've got a large amount of space what's gorgeous about these because you may say why would you want to put these in in fall once these are established just imagine the pink purple cloud that's what they become it's gorgeous gosh i feel like i should get some oh i don't know okay we'll come back to that i'm sweating really bad yapon holly natural caffeine source for florida hey yo oh so these are like a good box hedge alternative bike looks like huh there you go so if you wanted to like box hedge it up won't be native there you go this is their larger plant section so we're just going to avoid this completely because i don't have that much space where it's going to actually be something where i can stick like large trees and large shrubs you know the eight footers the 12-footers but there's a lot of great stuff over there highly recommend firebush if you've ever heard of it firebush is one of the best starter native plants brings in it does all the things the birds love it the bees love it the hummingbirds love it you'll love it you can shape it like a tree you can keep it like a low hedge you can keep it like a box head not box heads but you can keep it as like a pretty trained hedge you can do lots of good stuff with it all right i think there are a couple things i want to grab from back here and then we're going to switch gears and go over to little red wagon probably after i'm gonna probably have to swing by home and drop some stuff off impulse buy this is one of them right here lilies by my work for a decade i would watch rain lilies come in in an empty lot that i'm sure will get mowed over and built something on it but i love marine lilies they just look like this like nothing for a very long time when the first rains come every year these little guys put up these pretty white flowers so pretty but the time of year when it's right before this will happen a lot of native nurseries run out because everyone goes out and buys them because they see them so they have a lot of them i think we're gonna do a few of these two three five twenty we'll just do a couple okay you can see some of these have one two three four plants in them this one has three in it so you may get more than one blossom on each of these squatch okay got those now you may think i have wet areas i have shady areas this section is typically their wet well back there i think shade and then over here is wet area um and over here they have lizard tails oh i've seen these out in just pastures they are so cute one of the ones that i really have been loving and i've just been debating is this river oat i really want to get it that's one i've been thinking about rouge plant over by the shady area that's a big maybe uh just so much stuff because there the one end is kind of shady in this where we're gonna be planting and the other area is very sunny so i kind of need some of these plants that are gonna do okay in the semi shade do these ones do okay come from moist shady see the thing is when they say moist shady because i run my sprinklers still these might actually be okay yeah we're gonna try one of these with our our blue sage i think that'll be good you're looking to kill your grass milkweed milkweed oh look ten percent off if you buy an entire tray that's a deal and then you got sunshine mimosa back here look at that who doesn't love sunshine most as a ground alternative and then there's scorpion tail back there i have scorpions on my yard you can check out there's some videos this is creeping sage this is what i'm thinking um behind my pontiana in between my bananas i'm going to get but i'm not going to do that today i'm going to focus on the front strip that's that scorpion tail frost weed that gets really tall only 545 feet maybe i'm thinking of a different one maybe christmas berry or something there's one that gets taller than most people wow this is pretty bush mint that's cute i had something what was it i feel like i'm missing something that i was definitely planning on grabbing once i saw they had it and it was over here what was i oh woodland flocks where was it where was it where was it there native ground cover good filler different color for us instead of the yellow yes woodland flocks this is like when you drive on the highway and you're like what is that bluish color especially if you're like central north florida woodland flocks they're gonna only get like a foot foot and a half tall and it prefers full shade partial shape this is one that i wanted to go put by the blue stage and if you kind of noticing a powder the blues tend to like the shade more the yellows and the whites tend to like the sun more interesting um how many am i getting one two sprawling i'm always like let's get three of something because three because i can kind of work the other plants in between for the shady side am i going to have room on this cart who knows whatever oh my goodness so many questions from is this enough i mean i'm sitting here going like i don't think so because this is about the amount of plants i got when i did the original wildflower area and that i would say is a third the size now i do have three scrub blueberries that i will be pulling from my own yard from other sections of moving i just don't know if i do i like i have enough wildflowers here i need to grab more what will ben say when he sees how much i spent i don't know so many questions okay i i think i think we're gonna grab a simpson stopper i think we're gonna go grab some mooli grass because when i do go to little red wagon they don't carry as many of the grasses that's kind of one of the things about native nurseries they can sometimes specialize one area versus the other and because wilcox is associated with um doing landscaping they carry more large plants landscaping plants you may think well that sounds better than little red wagon the little red wagon is um is all into butterflies every they're all connected with like the tampa bay butterfly gardening community so all of their plant like 90 something percent of their plants are native they don't have bananas and stuff like that one two almost everything they have is related to either hosting butterfly plants or supporting butterfly plants they do a lot of work against butterflies so i can often get like host plants and butterfly plants that i can't find here so both have their really good points so it's just kind of like what do you want to get so what so while i know they carry like some muli grass like i don't know if they have elliott's love grass and some of the other grasses and i know they don't have simpson stoppers i don't think i've ever seen one there so i think i'm gonna grab those and then we will head out and start going to little red wagon so we can get more wildflowers because that's where there's some other wildflowers that i want to grab that i know they got every time i go there i'm like oh i want to get those so okay so let me wrap this up let's get going over there so it's heading to the cash register but i got caught by a couple more plants so i'm grabbing a salt and pepper which is a really good pollinator plant i grabbed a couple of the white heliotropes for some ground cover to fill in in the areas that are sunny and then i saw this green eyed flower but it's really really pretty when the flower fades let me see if i can show you guys this and then adam who works here pointed out that it smells like chocolate which facts it does so he then was like if you pair it with the vanilla the vanilla plant is native and you got chocolate and vanilla so i don't even have space in the wagon anymore so we're gonna check out with all these fabulous fabulous plants and we'll do like a full summary at the house because i think i've covered everything with you all that i grabbed but who knows okay let me go pay for all this all loaded up and you can see my back seat is completely crammed my children apparently turn into shrubs oh my word and my front seat so that means all i can buy can fit in this front seat and what little space i have in my trunk because there's a stroller in my trunk so that's it there's not much i can buy a little red wagon to still dough a lot so we're gonna go we're gonna go oh this smells so like here's the thing though is it smells like dessert in here right now between the vanilla plant the um what are they green eyed i forget what they're called green eyed some things we'll look at it later that smells like chocolate and then i got the false mint and the calamanthia with their mint smell it smells like mint chocolate ice cream in here so good so good okay let's go over to little red wagon and let's go get um some more wildflowers because this is this is gonna be oh man this is gonna be good i'm super psyched now if you're feeling like super inspired right now and you're like hey i want to get all these plants too jaclyn but there's not a native nursery near me but i know many of you when you tell me where you live you live within an hour and a half maybe two hours of these places there are other native nurseries but with some of the native nurseries you can put the orders in ahead of time like you don't have to like show up and then be like oh they don't have the plan like i know little red wagon you can order and pay for it online and then tell them the day and time you're gonna go pick it up so that they have time to pull your whole order together they'll hold it wilcox does the same thing and then you can just make the trip out here or to whatever native nursery's closer so don't just let the fact that like it's not a 10-minute drive like a home depot or a lowe's be the reason you stop like make it a little half day trip get your buddy get your spouse and like just put the order in ahead of time that way you get the plants that you know you really really really want and then you know impulse buy once you get there because that's what i do okay let's get going to little red wagon okay we're across the bay plants a lovely trip across they got to see the water views and now it's time to go hit up the tampa bay florida foundation red wagon and grab some more great pollinator butterfly plants to add to all these fabulous plants i'm super psyched but i can only get so much this is a plant that i would love to get look at this is the native tea bush so pretty but it gets 10 feet tall i wonder if this be a good one for up against a house this is very very pretty and look at the flowers see these super cute super pretty lovely silver tone very pretty oh beach verbena this is so pretty i have this in another area and there's that pineland heliotrope again of course my favorite look at that coreopsis it's like starry rosenweed again so many cute ones oh they also have the dwarf simpson stopper here what's this is this tropical sage yeah tropical stage oh this is a tick seed um lancelotta the choreographer which is similar i think it's got a yellow center versus the choreopsis wild lime if you're looking for getting the giant swallowtail oh wild petunia this one's super pretty i already have this one and it's doing really well so i don't want to add more of it there's our native wild plumbago oh frostweed again crossweed shiny coffee sea purslane frost aster oh that's cute hmm frost daster maybe elliot's love grass looking very cute fringe tree horse tail oh this is just like very pretty if you've got a wet area very interesting pretty plant there one day oak leaf hydrangea project i want that one it's looking a little sun stressed oh blue ocean morning glory i have that that's so pretty oh that railroad vine we just got some of that but where's the one that i want stokes aster stokes aster is a really pretty border plant this is native i think to the very uh northern parts of florida on the panhandle really pretty some stopper narrow leaf iron we giant iron wheat nope nope old slam honeysuckle carolina jessamine where's the one that i want golden creeper nope nope nope oh who is this blue sage oh is this the same blue stage i was just a little laggy that's all but look it's not it's not pretty who we got over here beauty berry so pretty have this in my yard edible edible fruit to make a lovely jam our native fiddlewood look at those berries has some really pretty flowers too big for what we're doing today what do we got yap on holly again coral beat that's not girl me what is that that's something else ow jack in the bush i don't know that one who are we and what are we this is pretty scarlet hibiscus oh these are so pretty oh they have it oh my gosh look at that i don't think this is at all appropriate for this project but man oh man pretty pretty pretty oh five to eight feet dives back and wins her full sun's a partial shade can you imagine oh my gosh so pretty fire bush i can recognize fire bush just by its leaves now i love fire bush county water hyssop oh golden ragwort so i swear some of these names are like the worst names ever do not sell the plant the plants are gorgeous and they have these names that just sound like ragwort why tall mallow oh short-lived perennial if you don't know a lot about uh native plants if you're gonna purchase in person they're so great about doing stuff like this so you can just quickly kind of get an idea of some some things that you can do without being like a plant expert there's those river oats again i want those who is this lakeside sunflower cute looks like that's just starting to open let's see what we got over here oh narrow leaf yellow top love this blazing start we got some smaller blazing stars that are about they'll become big there we go look at that one which one oh it looks like this is a graceful one they have it here too and spiked blazing star very cute and sunshine mimosa look at our black-eyed susans looking so cute and all the milkweed they definitely keep very stocked on milkweed all the time when it comes to milkweed i feel like i never have an issue finding it here wilcox like it just comes and goes um they just they carry the inventory but here they carry it like 10 times the amount of inventory when it comes to milkweed that has to do with like what their different focuses are so yes milkweed galore here let's see necklace pod what we got beach morning glories more aquatic milkweed oh my choreopsis i love you florida pepperomia don't tell me they ran out of the thing that i was thinking i was gonna get joe pie weed this is one i was thinking about it's gonna get so big i'm definitely starting to melt it is very hot out it may be almost fall but it is definitely so i'm gonna grab a cart so we start grabbing some of the plants the one that i was really looking to get it's similar to salt and pepper and like flower structures called i think faux locs p-h-o-l-o-x i think is it or phalox something like that and i it's usually over where they had some woods was it wood stage or blue sage and they didn't see it there today and i'm kind of looking around for it that was the one that i like really really really really wanted to get and they've had it every time i've come here but i guess not today which is okay um so we're gonna grab some other wildflowers and some other pretty things you know to mix in because yeah i think i'm i'm like super like should i get the joe pie weed it is big like when it gets going it's gonna be like really big but not too big i mean it's gonna get tall it will definitely be something my neighbors will be like and while i love to challenge their expectations of what's pretty i don't know i mean it's going to be gorgeous though like it'll be i mean they're really pretty there's a native gardener that i've watched on tick tock uh he's up in georgia and he was showing his and i was like that's really pretty so we're definitely gonna get some of that uh what you may be wondering is i've talked a lot about native wildflowers and you're probably like why aren't you getting more milkweed for your area other than like the one um or whirling milkweed that i grab and the reason is i've actually done some propagating of my own milkweed so i have some pink swamp milkweed and some native butterfly weed to go into the area so i've got six of those so i don't want to go you know buying more when i really don't need to buy more so no more milkweed for this year maybe i'll need to grab more for next year so okay let's keep going i am gonna get purple coneflower um the landscape guys ended up killing the ones that i did buy so we are going to get some work for the area so i just asked megan and she found one of the ones that i was definitely coming for which is i know i totally had it wrong paler fox this one it i know it's going to get really tall but it doesn't get very bushy and it gets this very interesting flower but i would be very excited to add to the garden and i know butterflies will love it and another one we're gonna add not pink swamp milky but this is actually cardinal flower this is definitely a love very pretty it will handle full sun to uh partial shade so this will be good as we get into that transition point so i'm gonna grab some more of these i the area i put last time not as good for those but i think i'm gonna grab all of them we'll take all three of these but once these cardinal flowers start coming out oh they're so pretty and i think with the blue sage that we've got going this will look really pretty this is one of the reasons i like little red wagon is they actually will test out their plants so they have the host plants here but once the butterflies started closing they test out different wildflowers down here so that they can give really really good advice about what things the butterfries like and don't like that's megan okay crazy name but gorgeous flower sneeze weed and i love this texture that goes on with it yeah so you can see it gets those flowers it likes kind of sandy dry soil and that's the cool thing about native plants you feel like you have bad soil well they like that bad soil this is a very pretty structured plant uh i don't know i'm debating no no no no maybe yes no maybe yes we're gonna put a pause on that one so i was just walking by i got distracted by the sneeze wig but then i saw this out of the corner of my eye sky flower oh my goodness full sun to partial shade oh with the woodland flocks what do you think what do you think we're getting it okay bye-bye got another one of these these are two of them two bam done uh-oh we're almost out of space what will we do i don't know oh here's i think the one i originally had thought about getting which is the marsh rattlesnake this is not as pokey not as pokey three two feet tall one foot wide i love the look of this we're gonna get these yep look at that isn't that pretty it's like it's just i love oh wait that's probably not about the best one to show you this is probably better it gets like this bluish tinge i just think mixed with some of the other really pretty flowers that's just going to be such an interesting piece and a lot of what i wanted to do with the textures but i just the other one the leaves down here were so pokey and with the kiddos and the dogs i'm not gonna do it so we're gonna do this we're gonna get two of these okay so this is it the wagon is full i think that's all my car can hold too so we're gonna pay for this and then head home and then i will do a final show you of all the plants because even i'm having a hard time keeping track of all the things that i bought at this point who needs a garden in their yard when they can have a garden in their car [Laughter] way too many plants okay we are home there are many many many plants and i've now walked in through all the things that i've bought and he literally said when you originally showed me it didn't look like that much but now that it's all spread out oh my gosh wow so here we go so here's kind of the general groupings i'm thinking there's going to be a wildflower section with a lot of these tall yellows so you've got mooli grass here which will help with some of these top heavy plants that are going to eventually fall over and i know you can't really see some of these yellow flowers because of the dune sunflower behind you but we've got our starry rosenweed up here and i really i don't know if i mentioned it earlier but i love how these look when they're faded look at that isn't that just pretty i think that's gorgeous we have our i think this is the elegant liatris blazing star so we got two of those we've got our graceful blazing star so it'll just be a different texture and we'll see how we mix those up our favorite choreopsis 11 worthy look at how cute we got two of those because i couldn't wait to propagate my own that's just an impulse then we have our pelliflox which is hiding in here because it's such a lean right now um this when it gets flowers it's um similar in style to the salt and pepper which i also got but it's much lower for the salt and pepper but this will be a taller version um and we need the muller grass to help support that guy because he's just he just he's got a lean right now he's got a big lean so we got those got those okay so then we have our pylon heliotropes these pinelands yes white pineland heliotrope so i'm thinking these might get mixed in with this section along with our native purple echinacea aka purple clone flower our salt and pepper plant um the everest also known as everglades square stem but look at these aren't these pretty it does look like salt and pepper great attractor for pollinators and you can see we got some more rough texture but that's okay we like a little bit of difference we have our world milkweed here and then we'll also be mixing in butterfly weed and native swamp milkweed that i propagated in this probably with this grouping we might add in the rattlesnake master don't know if that will go with these or here i got i'm not sure where stuff's going to go but i just tried to group things i thought kind of go together this section is my shady section that sounds so bad but my shade section as in these will be in the semi-shade area probably more towards that end where the ponciana does a lot of shading out so we've got in the back three cardinal flowers these if you remember last year we had a set of these beautiful red flowers a tractor of hummingbirds which we know we want so we've got three of those then here with a different texture we've got our azure blue sage we've got two of those in the middle here rouge plant which we know the birds like and it's a good shade plant then sky flower the flowers are closing up because we're towards the end of the day but they are beautiful and you'll notice a pattern we got a lot of blue when it comes to our semi-shade location so two sky flowers and then we have three woodland floxes which will be a bluish bluish color bluish color so a lot of blue with a dash of red in the berries right here from our rouge and then we'll get some gorgeous red from our cardinal flowers soon so that will be a grouping of stuff that will end up down yonder where we know gets more shade for the day we of course got our dwarf simpson stopper which should be setting very soon for the fall will give us a little bit of help for our birds we love helping our birds and then we have our our durs dirt our dessert pairing so this was our chocolate and vanilla so we have vanilla flour and then we have our green eyes here and again another plant that looks really really good when it's faded look how pretty that is but also pretty when it's not faded so what i'm also thinking along with a section of all these wildflowers is i probably start the railroad vine and put the um oh what are they called rain lilies in with them somewhere very full sun locations i think if i remember correctly the railroad vine can get about 20 feet long and it'll wind between all the different plants so i think it'll be very pretty and the rain lilies they're going to be really not noticeable until it's time to notice them so very excited for those then of course we have our partridge tree which is the hose plant to so many different butterflies very excited for it and what we're gonna do is we'll have to figure out a location for it but it'll be a nice add-in different texture and then we got our joe pie weed which will get pretty big it's gonna have a nice beautiful bloom on it so that'll be a really pretty add-in then we kind of have these i don't know what you want to call this the scrub land areas which are scrub blueberry i've got three i can relocate to kind of mix in with these then we've got our false scrub mint our calamanthius and silk grass i feel like they add up some really pretty silver tones and some nice white silver light lavender kind of look to it so this for fall for the birds and this will be for the spring for birds so these plants combined are going to give a lot of berries for them along with that rouge plan so we've got a lot of different things going on that are going to add you know food for our birds food for hummingbirds and food for the pollinators and just look at like when you come down low here we just have so many different textures heights flower shapes this is gonna i'm just super excited for this i am so excited for what this is gonna be and then over time i'm gonna add even more flowers in because why not oh we've done a little bit of organizing of the plants but really what we have to do next is get these all installed and that's what's going to be up next is the entire laying out designing and installation of these plants but if you're too excited to wait for this then go ahead and check out this which is our florida native wildflower project and this our florida native plant landscaping project okay i'll see you soon bye

Channel: Wild Floridian

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Length: 43min 32sec (2612 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 30 2022