Florida Landscape Plants Red

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.

Florida landscape plants red.

Buttonwood conocarpus erectus is a drought tolerant florida native plant with leaves. The plant pages give you all the basics and then some. Annual flowers and foliage. Citrinus lemon bottlebrush also referred to as red bottlebrush c.

Florida has over 4 000 species of plants notes the university of florida. Viminalis the weeping bottlebrush. 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. Grow this drought tolerant shrub in full sun or partial shade.

The following list includes many but not all excellent red options for the florida landscape. 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. Read this article to learn more about plant care for buttonwood. Draws the eye with its orange red tubular.

The crown of thorns is a beautiful plant. You ll find zone 9 plants as well as those for zone 10 florida shrubs palms. Newbies discover new to you plants and how to grow them in sandy soil and blazing sun. Wispy ornamental grasses are versatile plants in any landscape that can provide four seasons of interest.

If you are looking for sun loving plants in florida consider these 10 choices. 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. Your location inland or near the coast and in which of the three sections northern central or southern florida you live. These landscape plants can be used as stunning hedge accent or small tree.

They look very similar and have almost identical landscape uses so we ve grouped them together here. It also leads the united states in having the most native plants used for home landscape purposes according to the inside track almanac. Both with red flowers. Snowbirds find easy going plants that can thrive with only part time care.

Because native plants are already adapted to the environment they re less prone to disease and pests. Though they re in different plant families both are easy care plants. Low maintenance landscape plants for south florida. Coleus is a heat tolerant and durable annual prized for its colorful foliage.

Some plants can easily handle being in florida s sun all the time. It grows to be about 3 ft tall. The name bottlebrush is often used to describe plants with various showy flowers resembling a bottle brush. The silver form is popular for the foliage color and contrast.

It s a cactus like plant that produces small red flowers. These plants grow well in all parts of florida zones 8 10.