BEST PLANTS FOR FLORIDA | Gardening in Florida
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- Gardening in Florida is great BUT what should you plant? So whether you are New to Gardening or an Expert Gardener who is new to Florida; we will cover the best Florida plants.
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🌸🌴 What is your favorite plant to add to your Florida Garden? 🌴🌸
Native Goldenrod I love them because they are loved by the birds bees and butterflies.
Plumerias are a favorite as well as sunflowers, parsley and dill for the butterflies. Just to name a few 🌻🦋🐛😉
Yes! Florida Native Goldenrod is beautiful!
Love Plumeria! We have a big one in our yard that my kiddos climb
We are here to ask you what to plant just list plants
Now this woman knows what she's talking about. Love it! =) Thank you.
Wow, thank you!
Lol you're funny! 🤣 Thankyou for the info! Native Floridian here! Finally gardening and I LOVE IT 🥰
Thanks and Yay! Another Florida gardener! Wishing you the best in your garden 😄
Because of your videos, I find myself visiting my local Native Nursery instead of my Big Box Store for plants. First, the people who work there are so informed and helpful. You pay a little more but you get what you pay for. As a result, my garden is certainly growing. Thanks for your videos. I am a fan.
Thank you! Finally good information on invasive plants in Florida that makes sense to me!
Glad it was helpful! :)
Very awesome that you make these videos. Thank you so much!
This is encouraging, thank you. I am in awe of your beautiful garden!
I think you meant sword fern as invasive. It looks very similar to Boston fern [nephrolepis exaltata] which is actually a Florida native! As a student of horticulture, but new time florida 10b gardener I'm glad I stumbled upon your channel!
Thanks for the info!
Great information about plants for our region! Thank you very much for sharing!
you are great to watch! Love how u explain
Thank you Itzia! 😄 I hope this helps you in your Florida Gardening adventure 🌺
Love your videos! 😊
Frogfruit?! Wow! After all these years, I finally have a name to put to those cute little wild flowers I’ve always loved! Now I can find seeds for them to cover my yard! That info alone made this video worth it. Lol
In SoFla we called them Matchweed, because each little flowerhead looks like an igniting match. Host for the White Peacock butterflies, awa a good nectar source for pollinators.
Likes it kinda wet.
Couple with Bacopa monnieri for best host effect.
Fantastic 💐
Great info 🥰
Thank you Gabriela! 😄
Do a video on plants and flowers for North Florida please
Invasive plants that I have had & took years to destroy.
4 o’clock, & Passion flower, trust me, it grows with a passion!
Aggressive growers indeed! Love the play on words! My neighbor had a non-native passion vine that was passionately smothering my orange tree... so I understand :) Thank you for helping remove invasive plants!
The maypop passion vine s a Florida native and the only host plant for our state butterfly. There are other varieties like the ones with red flowers that aren't native or host plants. I have been trying for years to get the maypop passion vine to grow in my yard but it is eaten to the grown so fast by the 3 variety of butterflies that are it's host plants.
Totally Domestic Really? I can not grow either in my yard. 😂
@@mariap.894
I am in zone 9. Perhaps that is why they go crazy.
@@totallydomestic433 I'm in West Boca, not sure what zone is it. I moved here 4 years ago and the only thing that grows real well are "bad drivers"...(just kidding 😉)🌷🌻❤️
Comes in with vocab lesson....makes a typo in the caption.
Fantastic video, as always.
LOL! Have to keep you on your toes 😂 Glad you enjoyed!
Ha ha, I was looking for this comment! XD
I wasn’t aware of invasive plants and I planted a Mexican petunia and omg I can’t get rid of that plant . I wish nurseries wouldn’t sell them :(
You are not alone! I was curious after reading your comment, so I looked it up. I liked this comment from kristifromdaviefl:
I have been trying to rid my yard of this awful plant for months. I live in S. Florida. Yes, Home Depot sells the stuff as "drought resistant" and "Florida Friendly". Florida Friendly? NO WAY! Drought resistant? Totally. They should include in their notes on this plant: Also resistant to the following: RoundUp, Vinegar, weed screen, All Vegetation Kill, table salt, bags of rock salt, 2 broken hoes, and months of work to try to eradicate this horrible plant from yard. Shame on any nursery that sells this stuff without warning of its extremely invasive nature. Our local extension office has asked Home Depot not to sell it and their requests have fallen on deaf ears.
Plant something else! This stuff will spread into all your other plants, grass, tree roots, and I doubt you will ever be able to get rid of it unless you remove the WHOLE area (oh, I forgot to mention - plan to dig a foot to three feet deep - maybe even more) and quarantine! By the way, if you plan to remove the stuff, I think it gets mad at you and grows back with a vengeance. I will keep trying everything and let you know what (if anything) works to kill this cruel infestation in our yard. If you don't hear back from me, I've had no luck and I am probably plucking rhizomes out of the yard.
If you don't have this in your yard, consider yourself LUCKY. The experts are listing this plant as invasive for a reason. It is the WORST plant I have ever had in our yard. Maybe I will post pictures later of my mess...
PS - don't waste your money on Home Depot's "All Vegetation Kill." It actually seems to fertilize the stuff and makes it grow overnight. Not that I have any reason other than this plant to knock Home Depot on the internet, but if THEIR OWN "All Vegetation Kill" doesn't even do any damage at all to this plant, then how is it that they even dare sell the plant to the average consumer?
I can’t agree more to that comment . Anything I grow in that spot does not do well and it does come back with vengeance! It’s even popping out of concrete sidewalk , I feel like burning down the entire bed , not sure if that will work either lol
@@paigeb1318 sue them and maybe things will change
I hope you do a video on flowers that rabbits hate. One of the biggest challenges in a flower garden in Florida. People should know that before investing in their landscape.
Hi Divya! I do not. I don't see rabbits eating the native flowers... not saying they don't eat them, I just don't have the experience to make recommendations. Best wishes 😄
True story I live in the country but my cat keeps them away for the most part stop working on the veggies 🤦🏼♀️
We have rabbits here that are terrible. I have to keep most annuals and veggies in big pots
@@kinglyzard That's what I do as well. It sucks!!
I miss Florida :.-(
Can you make a video about native pollinator and Butterfly Gardening??
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You are so sweet! Thank you for watching and liking!
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In east Texas the Boston fern likes to grow near the crown of the palm trees 🥴
We have ferns grow in palms too 😂
I’m so frustrated!! My soil is moist boarding on wet and has a white hard type of dirt like 6-8 inches deep. I cannot grow plumeria/Frangipani without them dying.
I want to grow pollinator/butterfly plants but not all in pots like I have them now. Beside swamp milkweed, is there anything I can do to amend the soil or plant things that will grow in crappy soil?
How depressing. I am inexperienced with Florida gardening, but I found something on floralawn. They have information on different types of FL soil. It sounds to me like yours has a lot of clay, so I copied that for you. Best of luck with your garden :)
When clay earth is amended, the texture improves, and plants can access nutrient-rich matter.
Improve clay soil by adding organic matter such as grass clippings, compost, shredded leaves, and rotted manure. Mix it in to a depth of eight to 12 inches. It’s easiest to mix in amendments when the clay is more dry than wet. The ground level will be higher with the additions, but it will settle over time as the added matter breaks down. As this process occurs, the texture of the soil will continue to improve.
I got a question for you all... what's a great Florida Native Plant that I can plant around my utility boxes.. to camouflage not hide?
Sun or shade?
Is it better to put mulch around plants, or let grass grow to help sequester carbon from the atmosphere?
Please let me know more veggies love love Florida soil?
So many! :) Tomatoes and Peppers do great most of the year! Also various types of beans, sweet corn, lettuces... honestly you can grow most common veggies during the fall, winter and spring here in Florida... most will require the addition of organic matter (compost) to your soil. Best wishes in your vegetable garden! :)
Do you have citrus? If so, have you done a video on it?
I love your Biden's T-shirt. Trying to get my city code to except them in my yard.
Thanks! I'm wearing the shirt while answering this comment 🤪 Yes! I love it! City's need to protect our natives 👏👏👏👏
@@WildFloridian Biden's need some better PR for sure! Maybe an episode? With the t-shirt on? ;)
Great idea!
I want to find a plant that will form a hedge under an oak tree canopy. Any ideas?
Shiny Wild Coffee will like full shade of it is a heavy canopy
If it is semi shade you may get away with Firebush
@@WildFloridian you're awesome!
I just called the local nursery, and they have wild coffee in stock. I'm going to get two 3 gl plants tomorrow.
@@gulftoad Depending on how deep the shade is, wax myrtle and marlberry are good too. Since you’ve chosen wild coffee - which is a great plant, you might consider getting a rouge plant to go with them. There very beautiful and will self propagate without getting out of hand.
Where can i buy native plants or seeds?
So there’s no way to have an English type garden in Orlando ? I guess I won’t be moving there 😶
There is a way… it just won’t be the same plants. You can definitely get the look. 😄
What if taro was contained? Ive heard of ppl containing running bamboo
That will work!
HELLO…WHAT ARE SOME DRINKS I CAN GROW IN MY YARD…PLEASE HELP
Where do you find florida native plants, what I see at garden centers is all the other. When I walk thru my woods I see cabbage palm, pine trees and live oak, I do not see beautiful native trees, so I bring in flowering trees, fruit trees, etc, see my point. I have the plants for monarch butterflies,occas tiny wild flowers that disappear after a few weeks. And bananas need alot of care, so does hibiscus, where are the plants that love florida but don't need constant fertilizing, watering, and fungicides. Sorry, just feeling frustrated lately as I struggle to water all my 'florida loving' heavy care trees and plants, on my 5 acre wooded rural homestead
I have gotten mine from Wilcox and Little Red Wagon in Tampa Bay. Check FANN and I think Pete Kamari’s does some shipping… he carries some natives
Have you thought of heavy mulching to not water as much?
@@arizonajo2791 well, that is a good reminder..:)
How about turf grass? Is turf grass good for the wild life?
Generally speaking no... from the fertilizer, pesticides and lack of variety it is more problematic to the state. There is some research that says some turf grasses can be a host plant for caterpillars BUT... the way we generally maintain takes out all potential benefits. There are great alternatives for ground cover. Check out Frogfruit which hosts three beautiful butterflies... self seeds... has pretty little flowers all year round
Also blue eyed grass
Please do a video on plants iguanas don eat! I live close to the water in Fort Lauderdale and iguanas are my nemesis 🤬 please help!
Not many! You gotta kill and trap the iguanas really.
I feel for you. But I don't know that much can deter them digging those holes. Maybe onions may deter them.
I thought that "Boston" Ferns were native to Florida. Are we talking about cultivars??
What was the name of the yellow flower? dune? closed caption says soon sunflower.
Dune Sunflower 🌻 😊
Zoom Sunflower? I replayed it three times... is it Zoom?
Okay I read below... Dune Sunflower. ;)
What zone you you gardening in?
9b/10a depends on the map 😄
@@WildFloridian Wonderful. I am planning a house/market garden in Broward, so 10. There are few posting pages in that zone so I am subscribed, Thanks again!
Yay!!!
Exoctic?
Yep 👍 That’s how I spell it 😂
Snake plant ugh nightmare
Ferns 👻
"Treat it like the plague". Because...well...it is literally a plague.
Indigenous!!!
All of your examples were closeups which didn’t help in understanding the overall look or size of the plants. Dry disappointing.
I'm a 90's kid and Extreme is what we do! But hopefully this got you interested in some of those plants and you'll check out videos or buy some natives! 😄 And it sounds like you, like others, would like a video of lots of plants with different shots... I can work on that. Cheers!
Yuck, I don’t like any of those flowers except piñtas. I want a cottage garden.
I don’t like tropical. Any suggestions? I have Rose of Sharon.
LOL! Looking at cottage garden design they mix clumping wildflowers with varying textures of grasses. And since the best wildflowers for here are florida natives... I'll recommend Florida Native Wildflowers. I would consider adding muhli grass for some large clumping grass, different types of coreopsis, black eyed susan, blanket flower, white or pink tropical sage, blue curls, yellowtop, goldenrod. Also you can use Firebush as a small tree. You may want to use blue-eyed grass as a nice neat border for the beds. Hope that helps :)
Plumbago grows well
@@kcmcnut
Yes but it gets out of hand. I have had the white which is lovely but grows too big & hard to dig up.
I'm so sad I can't grow Hostas. boo hoo hoo!
LOL 😂
Please get to the point..
Here are some points 🤺🪡🪚 😂 LOL. Feedback received 😊 Future videos with lists of plants and do not include definitions 👍