Florida Flowers And Plants

These plants bloom beautifully and hold up to florida s tough weather.

Florida flowers and plants. It s a cactus like plant that produces small red flowers. Bulbines are exceptionally easy to take care and will thrive in a multitude of various soil types. Other small native florida trees and shrubs worth investigating include yucca smalliana coontie zamia floridana gallberry ilex glabra gopher apple licania michauxii and spanish bayonet yucca aloifolia. It will do well in florida s heat and even though it can handle full sun it may do best with some afternoon shade.

You ll find zone 9 plants as well as those for zone 10 florida shrubs palms trees and flowers so you have choices that are right for your specific area. Identify the florida friendly plants including florida native plants that will work in your yard or landscape design. It can reach up to 8 10 feet tall as an annual. Flowers for florida we ve hand picked the flowers for florida collection just for florida gardeners.

Bulbine is a highly unique looking flower that makes for the perfect accent plant in a flower bed. The flower has black and yellow blooms that resemble the flowers that you find on a daisy. The plant pages give you all the basics and then some. Most varieties show off daisy shaped golden yellow flowers but plant breeders have been busy and you can find selections with single or double flowers and blooms in shades of yellow gold orange red and pink.

Natives long time residents learn more about plants you have and window shop for new ones. As its name suggests birds especially mockingbirds love its fruit particularly before they ripen. The database contains a list of recommended trees palms shrubs flowers groundcovers grasses and vines developed by university of florida ifas horticulture experts. The black eyed susan is a plant that can be grown in usda hardiness zones four to nine.

Native to florida the firebush is a tropical flowering shrub that exhibits tube shaped orange and yellow colored flowers. If you are looking for sun loving plants in florida consider these 10 choices. It can be especially true in areas of your yard that get full sun. The flower has star shaped blooms that generally bloom most of the year in florida.

Bird pepper bird pepper capsicum annuum var. Crown of thorns the crown of thorns is a beautiful plant. Firebush prefers full sun for best flowering though it can do well in partial shade as well. Coreopsis florida s official state flower is one of the cheeriest plants you can grow in your garden.

Glabriusculum is a lovely native plant found primarily in coastal hammocks in south and central florida. They typically come in yellow or shades of light orange.