No wonder Gold Mound is a brilliant choice for Southwest Florida landscapes. Its neon yellow foliage will engage every passerby, even if your home is tucked back far away from the street. As far as evergreen shrubs go, this species dazzles every time, even if you just want a spot of it – well, especially if you want a spot of it. That’s because Gold Mound Duranta is best used sparingly as strategic pops of color in your Southwest Florida landscape. Think of it as an exclamation point within Continue Reading
Light Up Your Landscape with Lime Sizzler™ Firebush
Since the arrival of Lime Sizzler™ Firebush in 2014, gardeners everywhere have been eager to get their hands on this long-blooming addition to Mother Nature’s plant palette. This double-take dynamo has captured the eye of landscape design professionals, hummingbirds, butterflies and bees with its exotic lime-green and yellow foliage topped with sizzling trumpet-shaped, red-orange flowers chock-full with nectar (it’s a top-ten plant for attracting pollinators). Botanically, Lime Sizzler™ Continue Reading
Variegated Shell Ginger Is Made for the Shade
Now here’s a plant that literally earns its stripes in shade gardens throughout Florida’s zones 9B and 10: the light and billowy variegated Shell Ginger. Known for its massive spread, the anything-but-shy Shell Ginger flounces around large trees, fringes rows of tall shrubs with breezy abandon and can even steal the show as a circular-drive centerpiece. It’s the leaf that attracts all the attention –a bold, elongated feather shape striped in lemony yellows and Key West lime greens. Because Continue Reading
Walter’s Viburnum: One of Florida’s Forgotten Hedges
Often overlooked by Florida residents, Walter’s Viburnum is an excellent hedge choice for several reasons. But first, let’s answer the burning question: “What’s up with a plant named Walter?” Well, Walter’s Viburnum honors a colonial botanist named Thomas Walter (1740-1789). This English-born planter described the species in his catalog of South Carolina flowering plants, Flora Caroliniana. Today most folks think a guy name Walter discovered the species. But we digress. All we know is Continue Reading
