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Field guides & plant data for Florida homeowners
One hundred Florida plants, filtered the way a landscape architect thinks about them: region, light, salt, drought, and role in the yard. With the honest watch-outs a nursery tag will never print.
Filter 100 Florida plants by your region, your light, your soil, and what you want out of the yard. Every entry carries its UF/IFAS source and a straight read on where it disappoints.
Find your plants →Turn a plant list into a real plan: quantities, spacing math, mulch takeoff, a water-zone and layering check, and a maintenance calendar built around what you actually picked.
Build a plan →Field guides, seasonal checklists, project planners, and Canva-editable templates. Printable, practical, and written for Florida specifically.
Browse the shop →Plant-by-plant walkthroughs, and full explainers on the systems that run a Florida property: soil, irrigation, trees, lighting, water. Watch a whole subject through instead of collecting tips.
Start watching →Florida is not nowhere. Sand, salt, heat, and storms have their own rules, and a plant that thrives up north will sulk here for years before it gives up.
Every plant here starts in the UF/IFAS Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ database and EDIS fact sheets. Where a note is an editorial read rather than a citation, it says so. Nothing is invented, and nothing is filled in from general knowledge.
More about the approachMature size ten years out. What it drops, and onto what. Whether it is toxic to a dog. Which pest finds it first. Whether it will still be standing after a category three.
That is the whole point. Anyone can list pretty plants. The useful part is knowing what you are signing up for.
Month by month, for North, Central, and South Florida. What goes in the ground, and the one care task that actually matters that month. Built from UF/IFAS guidance, not from guesswork.
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