BEST PLANTS FOR A SOUTH FLORIDA GARDEN: A Landscape Architect's guide to plant zones 9b, 10a, 10b,11
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- čas přidán 25. 02. 2021
- Hi Gardening friends, today I go over my recommended plants for a South Florida Garden. I concentrated this video to cover shrubs, ground covers and vines. I save my recommendations for trees, palms and accents for another future video, since video is already long- over 30 minutes. We hope you find value in this information. And please consider subscribing to our channel so you can get all the related videos as soon as I post them. Thanks
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I want you to know I started many videos about Florida zone 9b plants...yours is the only one worth watching the whole program. I just moved into my last home! I want to design a garden that can become my refuse after work. I have inherited several plants with the house...that the realtor gathered and planted haphazardly. She admitted most of what she planted were ate by the wild rabbits. There are several climbers and some plants I am unsure of. Thank you for this video. I am really looking forward to seeing all your videos!
Hi! Thank you so much for the kind words. I'm working night and day to create content to help as many people as possible with their South Florida gardens. And congratulations on your home! If you have any specific questions about how to get your your garden growing, just send me an email (letsgrowdesignhelp@gmail.com) or place a comment here. I will do my best to help you with some tips.
Thanks for sharing. The boy was also a cool kid.
Aww thank you. I will be sure to tell my nephew, he's a happy little gardener for sure :)
What a wondrefull and informative video! Love the way you are teaching little Mickel the love for plants , he will be an amazing gardener.
Thanks! Little Michael and I so appreciate your feedback. 😀🪴
Thank you for the video! Awesome! Where is this nursery ?
The best information!!! Thank you!!!
Thank you! Glad it was helpful. We have received a lot of requests for more info on plants for gardens so we have created additional plant videos on our channel and we are actively working on adding even more vids to help everyone with their unique gardening needs. Thanks again!😀🪴
Hi Michael. I stumbled upon this video and channel by accident. I was searching for South Florida gardening videos and this one popped up -- and it made me so happy! I live in South Florida and because of Covid and my underlying health condition, I haven't been to a nursery in over a year -- and the one featured in this video is one of my favorites. In fact, now that I've received both vaccinations, I'm counting down the days to be able to make some nursery visits/purchases to tackle some of the landscaping projects I've stared at for the past year. (I've made do with weeding and growing things from cuttings and harvested seeds.) I'm looking forward to exploring more of your videos. Have a great day -- and thanks again for this.
Thank you for your kind comment. I am so glad you found our channel. But I am even more glad that you received your vaccinations! And If there are any gardening videos in particular that you are interested in let me know, we are trying our best to create content that adds value to your gardening needs. Cheers and happy gardening.
Thanks for the informative video!
You are welcome. Hope it was helpful.
Beautiful plants..
Thanks, plants are awesome.🪴😃🌳. I still get mesmerized by how beautiful they are.
Beautiful , now I need a sand paper vine , love at first sight 😍
Thank you !
Awesome! I hope you can get a sandpaper vine too! Soooo pretty when she blooms, There is also a white variety available too; Petra volubis ‘alba, quite beautiful as well.😀🪴
Thank you for the educational videos. Delightful 🌺🌹🌺🌹🌺
Glad you like them! 😀🪴
This is great! Your co-star really helped me “feel” like I was there!
Thank you so much, we had a blast making this video for you all. Thanks again for the feedback ! 😀🪴
Beautiful, I am in the Redlands 💕
Thank you! I hope you enjoyed the video.😃🪴🌸
Thanks!
THANK YOU SO MUCH ALLISON! It is truly kind of you to support our channel!😀❤️🪴
Your videos are awesome!
Thank you! Glad you are enjoying them ! 😀🪴
Great video!!
Thank you!😀🪴
You have a great helper there! 👍
Thanks! My nephew is such a happy helpful kid.😀🪴
God bless you both 🙏
“You’re making a lot of stuff up…. But that’s cool.” 😂😂😂😂 I feel this in my soul as a parent.
Haahahha, Yes! Kids can be wild with their imagination!😀🪴
Your a great dad man
Michael, you did a great job on this video. Very informative, and the plant list at the end shows that you are someone who goes "above and beyond". Could you share the name of the nursery you visited so that we can visit there as well?
Thank you! The 2 nurseries we visited are adjacent to each other, the first one is called Living Color Garden Center (retail), the second nursery is called Black Olive East (wholesale). They are located on Griffin-dorf road. Hah ha Harry Potter reference; they are both off Griffin road in FT/Laud Davie area
ADDRESSES
Living Color Garden Center: 3691 Griffin Road
Black Olive East: 3539 Griffin Road Davie, Fl
Great video
Thank you !! Glad you liked it😀🪴
We got.... to get together... Mr Mike! Enjoy the playgrounds! - signed fellow plant nerd!!!!
For sure! I see that Modello Playground install is complete, and Sgt Joe is closing on on 100 %! Great additions to our park system. Congrats!
This is the best south Florida plant video I’ve ever watched! Super informative and beats the 10 trips I’ve made to the botanical garden in terms of knowing the plant name and how it grows. This is super helpful for me to decide on my new landscaping! Ty Ty Ty!
You are most welcome! Glad it was helpful.😀🪴
I want one so bad but I need something for full sun. Looking at triangle and hurricane palm instead
Hey Michael,Great video! I recognize both nursery’s,I love them both. I was wondering if you had a website I could visit. I’m looking for some help updating my yard in Weston.
Thank you, glad you liked the video. I am relaunching a website in the future, but I don't want to manage 2 sites at once right now; my main focus is on building up this YT channel. But if you would like to know more about our one on one design services or past work send me an email: letsgrowdesignhelp@gmail.com. Weston is so nice, I worked on several large home designs many years ago at Windmill Ranch Estates. Funny, small world.
Your son is adorable! A future you tube influencer!
Thank you, he's my nephew and totally unafraid of the camera.😃🎬
The little boy reminds me of my nephew....sounds just like him.. I miss him so much. RIP Bryan
SO SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS. :(
Your son is adorable.. he should have a youtube video.. I enjoy his enthusiasm and knowledge .
Thank you Cheryl! Little Michael is a charmer... no doubt. hahaha.
Would be interested to know what cut flowers would grow well in these zones -besides the typical tropical flowers like heliconia, etc.
OMG. I will be doing a video with my sister on that exact topic! Thanks for mentioning it.
So stay tuned to our channel, I will be filming that video next month. 😃🪴
It’s probably far too late to ask this question but where can I find a list from the first section, the flowering plants? I recently relocated to the Clearwater area after spending my whole life in Key West and I have the space and time to garden now and I am particularly interested in flowering species. I am actually familiar with all of the plants that you showed but I have not tried to grow most of them as in Key West they were already there! If you see this thank you in advance, also if it’s here right in front of me and I don’t see it I apologize as I am fairly new to CZcams. I subscribed and I’m looking forward to looking through your content. Thanks again 😊
P.S. wonderful to see you teaching your nephew by example. I did the same with my daughters but my grandsons are heavy duty into sports and video games 🤷🏻♀️
Hi! Never too late. I will be glad to help. I just completed a video on wonderful scented / flowering plants for your south Florida garden and you can get a lot of info in that video. I will leave a link here for you. I also did a butterfly attracting video and that video has a lot of flowering plants as well. I’ll leave that link for you as well. Hope this helps! 😀🪴
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Just found your channel. So informative. I have to have a look around your channel. We just purchased a new construction home and the soil is very sandy. Can we plant in that? Or do we have to replace it with soil. I have experience this and I’m new to gardening. Thanks
Welcome! On sandy soil, some plants will do fine (coastal plants like railroad vine, beach daisy, silver buttonwood, seagrape, coconuts) other plants may need some potting mix/ work castings added. It all depends on the plants you choose for your garden. Hope this was helpful.😀🪴
@@LETSGROWGARDENDESIGN Thank you!!! I'll let you know how it goes :)
Hi Michael, I just came upon you channel and I am new to South Florida. Do you have any ideas for plants that will do well in containers. I don’t have a large space but would love to add ‘color’ to my containers around my property. Thank you
Hi, thats a great question! I get that same question from clients and other folks quite often. As to what plants with COLOR do well in containers (small to medium size)- I have had great success with, baby sun rose, hoyas, desert rose, hybiscus, croton, coleus, lantana, cone ginger, lantana, pentas, song of india draceana, begonias, bleeding hearts, geraniums, reed stem orchids and many more!
Other plants, that are not know for colorful punch, but that do well in containers (small to medium size)- I have had great success with green island ficus, dwarf schefflera, elephant bush, peperomias, pothos, snake plants, spider plants (hanging basket), spider lily, green draceana varieties, ZZ plants, cast iron plants, macho fern, bleeding hearts, liriope, mondo grass, some juniper varieties, some agaves/cactus, false agave, reed stem orchids and more...
And for big trees and palms in larger containers in full sun I had great success with: coconut plams, thatch palms, jatrophas, lemon trees, frangipani pudica, vetchia plams, christmas palms, and... palms for shady areas- lady plams/ areca plams & Kentia palms. Note: areca palms will do well in full sun but leaves will turn yellow and I dont like that look- but in the shade Areca looks great!
Hope this helps you. And stay tuned to our channel, i'm sure to do a future video on this topic. 😃🪴
Do a video for plants to grow under oak trees!
Hi! Thank you for the question. I am still filming a video for shade loving shrubs and groundcovers (which will do great under and oak or other shade tree) and it will be posted shortly, so please stay tuned! 😃🪴
Do a video with plants iguanas don’t eat please! 🤗
Hi Ruth, will do! I am preparing a list of plants and will do a follow up video. Mostly thick leaved plants ( clusia's/crotons/ some ficus varieties etc)- Iguanas don't like them... So stay tuned!
Good information! Do you have a video on edible ornamental plants?
Hi there, and thanks. I haven't done any videos on edible forest gardens, but I will be, and my first will be a video on Mango trees. So stay tuned. :)
I subscribed so I'll be looking for your videos! We have 12 mango trees.... that will be interesting!
@@artcreativelydone7761 wow! 12 ! You have your own edible forest! I'm jealous, You must have a huge yard. :)
@@LETSGROWGARDENDESIGN thanks we have just under 3 acres. More edibles like papaya, lowquat, avocado, banana, kumquat, mulberry, and blueberry too. Oh and moringa! My partner is quite the farmer... me not so much!
Lovely tour. What is the name & location of this garden center? Thank you.
You are most welcome. The retail nursery is called Living Color. It's located on 3691 Griffin Road in Davie. Adjacent to it is their wholesale nursery- Black Olive East.😀🪴
Michael, what’s the ground cover plant you mentioned at 26:20? Thank you for the video.
Pilea microphylla. Super cool low ground cover to about 12" tall. Bright yellow green tiny leaves, easy to propagate. I planted a lot of it in my miami shores home as a bedding plant. hope this helps😀🪴
@@LETSGROWGARDENDESIGN Thank you for the response. Your video gave me new ideas.
I have some more videos like that on our channel if you would like to know more. I will keep uploading more and more over time😀🪴
Hi Michael, I would like to know which nursery this is, it looks like the have an abundant array of plants here. I am located in Broward also.
Hi!, The garden center ( retail) is called Living Color on Griffin Road (Davie). I also filmed some at the adjacent (wholesale)- Black Olive East Nursery. Hope this helps😀🪴
@@LETSGROWGARDENDESIGN Thanks for responding Michael. Much appreciated.
You listed several colorful plants at the end of your list as coleus and they are copper leafs.
Hi. Im sorry, I'll double check, thanks for the heads up.
Hello I just came across this video I am in Miami and looking for a ground cover that would be a substitute for grass in other words no mow so cant grow to high been looking at the dwarf mondo grass. but not sold on it
some one recommended red creeping thyme but some say good to zones 8 /9 others 10
what would you suggest ?
Thanks!
Love mondo. But it likes partial sun/ shade. Red creeper won't grow well down here. You can try perennial peanut, but it does tend to yellow over time. Also you can try Zosia grass and let it go ( gets kinda moundy but not too high), its kinda cool look and a super tough grass. Hope this helps😀🪴
@@LETSGROWGARDENDESIGN Thanks I will look into it I honestly dont want the mow the lawn any more
seems more geared toward south florida and not zone 9b which gets temps in the 20's every winter
Hi, yeah, 9b "coastal" Like Sarasota etc is probably the limit for most of these.
Does the light lavender/white bogainvillea have thornes
Hi, there. The silhouette bougainvillea is thornless, and she has a nice lavender color. Miss Alice has white bracts and is also a thornless bougainvillea variety ( but the pink & white boug- Imperial delight, she does have thorns). I created a bougainvillea video with more info about all these plants if you would like to check it out here is the link: czcams.com/video/d3LbXE3g0Os/video.html
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Buganvillas are wonderful but we live next to a canal and the iguanas/lizards eat them !!!!!! How can I get them to stop eating the tender leaves and branches ?
Iguanas.. UGHHH! I''m sorry they are such a nuisance! Unfortunately, they like eating bougainvilleas. I'ts difficult, they love being near canals. You can try contacting some specialized wildlfie control folks to reduce populations or I know some people have pets that are great at scattering them. My sister has iguana problems and we did a video about it if your'e interested (we created a metal barrier) Hope this helps. 😀🪴
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Is this nursery open to the public or wholesale only?
Hi the west side of nursery is retail and is open to the public, it's called Living Color in davie Florida on griffin road.😀🪴
Hey what part of Florida is this nursery
It's in Broward County- South Florida
Michael .. where is that nursery located ?
Hi there, the nursery is called Living Color, located off Griffin Road, in Davie 😀🪴
@@LETSGROWGARDENDESIGN Thanks Michael .. amazingly enough , I live just a couple of miles from there !!! .. and I have never seen that place !!😁 wow.. .. thanks again ..
Where can i buy the plants please?
Hi there. The retail nursery is called Living Color. It's located on 3691 Griffin Road in Davie. Adjacent to it is their wholesale nursery- Black Olive East. Enjoy your garden! 😀🪴
Does anyone know the name of this nursery he’s at?
Hi there! We filmed at 2 locations, side by side. The retail nursery is called Living Color. It's located on 3691 Griffin Road in Davie. Adjacent to it is their wholesale nursery- Black Olive East. We also just uploaded another similar video with more great plants at Galloway Farms In Miami. Here is that vid link-
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Hope this helps. 😀 🪴
What nursery is this?
Hi, I filmed at Living Color Garden Center 3691 Griffin Rd, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312. I also filmed some footage at their adjacent wholesale site (Black Olive East). Hope this helps.😀🪴
Which nursery is this?
Hi, it's Living Color On Griffen road in Davie. 😀🪴
Where is this nursery?
Hi! The retail nursery is called Living Color. It's located on 3691 Griffin Road. I also visited their wholesale nursery (adjacent property) as part of this video (Black Olive East). Hope this helps😀🪴
Can you name of the nursery
Hi! The nursery is called Living Color on Griffin Road. I also filmed some footage at the adjacent nursery (wholesale) Black Olive.😀🪴
Where is this nursery?? I don’t see a name or address
The retail nursery is called Living Color. It's located on 3691 Griffin Road in Davie. Adjacent to it is their wholesale nursery- Black Olive East. 😀🪴
Your son going to be next you lol
hahaha ! 😃🪴
It's the end of February 2021 in south FL. They are outside in the windy garden and the 8 yr old kid is wearing a mask. Sounds like dad is not. WTF?
Well, thank you for your concern. I was wearing a mask, but when I needed to take it off, I was socially distant from my nephew. Also I had caught covid-19 several months earlier, luckily I recovered, but the benefit from that horrible disease was that I developed huge amounts of antibodies to covid-19 to keep me from spreading it to him or others. This was confirmed by Covid 19 Antibody blood tests that I took and reviewed with my doctor. I love him and wouldn't recklessly put him in danger. M
Terrible audio.
Hi again, again, Yes, windy days is a bane for filming and the sound was not great. Big note here: I am not a film director by training (obvi) but I was aware of sound issues and as you can see in my video, I note that in real time, asking ya'll to bear with me because it was a very windy day with lots of planes flying over head. But overall, I think I provided some super valuable FREE info, for what its worth. M
Can you post the plant list or email it to me if I give you my email address?
Hi! sure can. Just send me an email with request: letsgrowdesignhelp@gmail.com and I'll get you the list. Also I just posted a video on great native trees for your S Florida garden. (Part 1 of 2), take a look and if you want a list of those as well, I'll send that over too.