Easy Plants for Florida: Native Plants for a Beautiful and Durable Landscape

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@Eryalb Жыл бұрын

Gopher apple is an insect favorite and it can bloom nearly non stop. The fruit is edible for humans but is a favorite of gopher tortoises. It spreads by rhizomes and can make nice low growing plant. It's a sandhill, scrub, pine rockland type plant so it needs full sun and sandy well draining soil.

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!! I'll have to look more into it.

@psyko0906 Жыл бұрын

Ben: how many plants 🪴 did you get? Jacqueline: yes #gardengang

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

I see no lies in this conversation 😂

@GrowinpeacewithBeedoh 26 күн бұрын

This was the best! I feel your struggle filling up your cart. 😂😂 Thank you so much for your channel!

@pattybips5519 7 күн бұрын

I bought a native honeysuckle at little red wagon a couple years ago. It looks great in front of my air conditioner shroud. It's getting very big and I know it may outgrow its space because I live in a townhouse with an HOA and they will probably make me take it out. Wish I had a house I would fill the yard with natives.

@comewheelinwithjohnandchristie 8 ай бұрын

I looked in the transcript of your video, that helped me find the plants/flowers you looked at and purchased, thank you so much! I enjoy your videos. We just purchased a half acre of land for our RV in Gilchrist County (near Bell Florida) and I’ll be planting a butterfly garden soon! Thank you for all of your tips!

@erikacreatedit 2 ай бұрын

I typically hate window shopping but this was so much fun to watch 🤣 excited!!! Have you posted the update??

@jennivanhart3016 Жыл бұрын

love your videos - am located in Gainesville, and try to furiously write down your suggestions. Would you (by chance) write up the plants you purchased in this video? I keep having to bounce back and forth and then try to work out how to spell those suckers!!!! Thank you for this channel.

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

Thank you Jenni! Here are the plants I purchased 😄 Starry Rosinweed Patridge Pea Joe Pye Weed Muhly Grass Coreopsis Levinworthii White Pineland Heliotrope Salt and Pepper (Everglades squarestem) Palafox Graceful Blazing Star Elegant Blazing Star Purple Coneflower Butterflyweed Whorled Milkweed Vanilla Flower Florida Green Eyes Railroad Vine Rain Lillies Dwarf Simpson Stopper Scrub Blueberry Scrub Mint Calamint / Calamanthia Rouge Plant Blue Azure Sage Cardinal Flower Sky Flower Blue Woodland Phlox

@jennivanhart3016 Жыл бұрын

@@WildFloridian Thank you! Much appreciated and will be shopping this weekend 😂

@ashleylitebrite6971 Жыл бұрын

Yes, for the Simpson's Stopper! Love it for your garden. I'm growing fakahatchee and pink muhly grass in my yard. Also have the dwarf yaupon holly (shillings I've been told). That's where my black racers live.

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

I love it!!! The wildlife must be so happy in your garden!

@pray_plant_paint Жыл бұрын

Definitely get the Joe Pye Weed!!! BEST butterfly plant!!!

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

Yay! I'm excited!

@avgFloridian Жыл бұрын

I have several Simpson's Stopper... well, technically the neighbor's but he doesn't trim them. They're planted more as a decorative hedge along a PVC fence. I did notice an abandoned bird nest the last time I trimmed them. It's mostly used as cover and concealment for the cats, raccoons and opossums who walk through.

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

What creeps into our yard is ours 😄

@mistycarter9809 11 ай бұрын

Can i just say that I love watching you get excited when you go to these nurseries 😂

@gennysanchez8200 Жыл бұрын

Great idea. It's encouraging watching you change things up.

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you like!

@badbrothers8221 10 ай бұрын

I’m in tampa love little red wagon!

@llmphotos Жыл бұрын

Oh you’re in my neighborhood!! I’m helping monarch’s because of your videos. Thank you for your passion for Florida. I’m a FL girl too. 👒

@RevAcres01 Жыл бұрын

Super fun video I learned so much from your shopping spree. Look forward to seeing the installation and final layout.

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

Yay! Thanks Kim! The install will be this Friday’s video! I’m very excited by how it turned out!

@fadista7063 Жыл бұрын

So inspired by your work--am looking to get my lawn gone also. I am down in SW Florida. So hot outside can only do about 4-5 hours a week on Sat and Sun right now

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

Thank you ☺️ I totally understand! The heat is brutal 🥵Hopefully you saw some things you liked for your future project.

@fadista7063 Жыл бұрын

@@WildFloridian so many! I will need to bookmark this and watch again. I am trying to find as many edibles as possible too but also these pollinator attractants

@legauxmc Жыл бұрын

Good morning Great journey to follow on this blessed morning

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

🥰 Thank you and Good Morning ☀️

@wingnox Жыл бұрын

My blazing star died when I got it I was so bummed. Might need to take a ride to the other side by you.

@ImwithKyle Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing, great video!

@sojankattilparambilsecretf1339 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing 💗🦋💫🌏🙏

@rudekperezacupuncturist Жыл бұрын

Is going to be crazy good looking!

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

Thank you ☺️

@busywithdogs 5 ай бұрын

You should have known that you were going to get yellow flowers, they match your shirt and sunglasses.😆

@zm35r2bn Жыл бұрын

I bought the water plants with the the huge beautiful purple flower with red tips all she's gorgeous

@BackyardFlorida Жыл бұрын

You really know your native plants! Very informative. Little Red Wagon sold me a nice size Simpson Stopper. It was nearly 3 ft tall. I'm hoping it will bloom this year!

@katiecannon8186 Жыл бұрын

Simpson stopper is great for both birds (berries) and bees. My cardinals +love+ the berries. You should definitely get one. Do it, do it !!!!

@wesleyhackney Жыл бұрын

I’m so jealous of you having great nurseries to shop at. I live in Pensacola / Navarre FL area and we have very few nurseries plus what we have offer very little variety regarding native plants enjoy!

@laurenpaolini7073 Жыл бұрын

I love shopping vicariously through you!! I'm moving in a month, so can't even start my usual fall garden. I'm in withdrawal, so this video was wonderful!

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

I’m glad my shopping trip helped you… I’ll let Ben know… must do more shopping to help Lauren! And happy packing and wishing you the best on your move!

@noninoni9962 11 ай бұрын

Living in central Florida (west coast), with the pests, heat, mold and fungi, growing anything during summer can be an extreme challenge -- except the native plants... The things I don't like about them is, they LOOK like WEEDS -- scraggly stems and leaves, and tiny flowers... It would be great if you could highlight native plants that are luscious with greenage and lots of beautiful LARGE flowers!!

@121homestead9 Жыл бұрын

I wish I knew about your channel when we lived in Largo….3 hours north now

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

🥰 Many/most of these will work in central north Florida.

@chrisspilker8889 Жыл бұрын

Yay!!! Watching bc I was planning to visit both nurseries to fill the area where I killed the grass!

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

Yay!!! Killing grass and planting natives!!! 🙌 I hope you get lots of ideas and everyone at both nurseries is so helpful. If you aren’t sure what to do with an area bring pictures and some info on the area and they will help!

@Eryalb Жыл бұрын

Woodland phlox is such a cute plant! It must be tasty too because after I planted it and it started blooming, something came and ate all the flowers overnight. It rebloomed quickly though

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

Oh wow! Well I'm glad they bounced back!

@georgweyand88 Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for this awesome video. My house in Naples may be ready in April or May and then I hope I will be able to visit you and go plant shopping with you. I will have about half an acre to play with and plant lots of native flowers and bushes and some trees.

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

So much land! That will be fun to design

@lauriehessler8639 Жыл бұрын

Great video!!! I have the Florida green eyes planted with native porter weed and they look really pretty together. And they do smell wonderful but the scent is very subtle and unless you get really close to the flowers you can't smell it. (The neighbors probably think I'm nuts for getting down on all fours to smell the flowers, lol) Also, I have grown cardinal flowers and they like it wet so make sure they are near a sprinkler head. I've been to Wilcox several times but haven't been to Little Red Wagon so thanks for the tour 🌺🌻🌺🌻🌺🌻🌺

@avgFloridian Жыл бұрын

37:14 It's a CARden.

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

BWAHAHAHAH!!!!! Well played... well played

@rays718 Жыл бұрын

You are too funny! 🤗

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

Thank you!! 😁

@zaneymay Жыл бұрын

I have the pink rain Lily I didn't know it came in white. If you want some scarlet hibiscus just let me know. I would be glad to send you some seeds. It takes two years to get a bloom from seeds or cutting.

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

I think the pink one is exotic but I might be remembering that incorrect. This one is definitely native. It is so pretty! And OMG yes please send me seeds!!!!!! I would love to try them out! 200 2nd Ave. S. #431 St. Petersburg, Florida 33701

@zaneymay Жыл бұрын

@@WildFloridian I will send them out this weekend.

@fishingsouthwestflorida1586 Жыл бұрын

If you ever come to ft Myers check out all native nursery it’s really good

@Jaynes-Path Жыл бұрын

Talking about the chocolate plant made me think of my Chocolate vine. Have you ever tried it? After it became established and grew slowly for a year or two, it finally grew fruit pods. When ripe the pods produce a tapioca tasting center. The leaves and flower clusters smell like chocolate. I wish it was more aggressive but it seems to grow to a determined size and stops. I've had it for years, planted in the ground along a fence.

@ourtrailmixoflife2085 Жыл бұрын

I bought a fire bush locally. They said it's native but I don't think so after watching your video. I think Sweet Bay Nursery in parrish may be the closet place for natives near me. I will have to check them out soon.

@betsycline5170 Жыл бұрын

Do you ever do personal garden tours at your home? I have my whole front yard as a garden. I have added a native area but want to put in a ton more plants. I’m impressed with your knowledge. Recommend any specific books?

@lsipp2889 Жыл бұрын

Agree with you on the names of some of these plants! Lol Ragwort?? Noo. Btw I use Starry Rosinflower instead of Rosin weed. ;) Btw just wondering if you could possibly slow the camera down a little? :) It moves so fast sometimes! Love your videos though! ❤️ We learn so much every time.

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

Good tip! I should call it Rosinflower... so many natives are called weeds 😭 It makes them sound bad. But they are so pretty. And, yes, I'll slow that camera down 😄

@sasha2345 Жыл бұрын

How do you propagate swamp milkweed??

@Eryalb Жыл бұрын

By seed. Milkweeds do not transplant well so by seed is the best option. Or purchase already established plants

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

I have a video coming out showing how. I've done it by seed and cuttings.

@rsmalesk Жыл бұрын

This was a great one today. Any of the plants you bought that would definitely not work in Florida 9A?

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

Off the top of my head... I can't think of any that wouldn't work in north Florida. Some of these are actually native to the panhandle. I checked a few that I wondered if they were central/south and they all showed good to zone 8a. I'm glad you found some inspiration!

@lynndragoun6564 Жыл бұрын

Gopher apple is also a plant the gopher tortoises eat.

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

Thank you Lynn!

@mariannemanners6420 Жыл бұрын

dang you live in Saint Petersburg, don't you? I do so it sounded familiar.

@cstaber Жыл бұрын

What's the best way to learn the names/details of all the Florida Natives? I'd love to be able to recognize them as well as you do just by looking at them!

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

Awww thanks Chris! I don’t know if it’s the best way but I can tell you how I learned. First I’m part of several native Facebook groups, Florida Native Gardening and Native Florida Plants. NFP is great because Joseph will often post a plant of the day. FNG is great because you can get advice on where to plant and see other peoples gardens. Florida Native Plant society is amazing and when you are a member ($35 a year which is a steal for what you get) they send the monthly newsletter which will do deep dives on plants. Then I just go to native nurseries and try to guess the plant before looking at the label. The more you are around them, the more you recognize them. I also have a whole series where I introduce a new native plant each video. A lot of Florida classics native plants in there. Just some ideas. Hope that helps ☺️

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

Here is the link to the series if you want to check it out kzfaq.info/sun/PLfxugKDkQAouaZvvWvRM87eAfxFo1IPfc

@cstaber Жыл бұрын

@@WildFloridian Awesome! I'll check all those out! Thank you! We're building a house on 2 acres in Central FL so I have a lot of space to fill! RIght now it just has a bunch of wild passion fruit vines, a few cactus, and some other plants I'm not sure of - Not many trees though unfortunately... Going to try grapes, bananas, DTG's Grocery Row system, Native Wildflowers, a food forest, I want to do it all, lol!

@kimberlyd317 Жыл бұрын

My children turned into shrubs 🤣🤣🤣

@isabelhernandez1093 Жыл бұрын

I live in the Tampa area and have recently found your channel do you have any recommendations for for nurseries that carry native plants

@brittanyl8101 Жыл бұрын

How do all of these plants do in winter? Do they die back and rebloom in spring? I live in hillsborough county florida

@tammerakrawczeski1236 Жыл бұрын

Hey WF do you have a growing calendar that you sell? I thought I saw something about that…??

@mariangie1544 Жыл бұрын

There is a ground cover that is used at Disney campuses. It has a tiny yellow flower. I wonder what is it.

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

Perennial peanut is very cute! (not native but Florida Friendly)

@joann2544 Жыл бұрын

Did I hear you say you were buying purple coneflower??? I used to have them in my garden in North Carolina but not in south Florida. Do they grow for you? (I miss purple coneflower so much. I have it as the background on my laptop!)

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

Your ears did not deceive you! I planted some this spring and just as my first bloom was opening... my lawn guys weed wacked them.... so... But yes, there are native purple coneflowers to Florida. Just get them from one of the Florida suppliers like the Florida Wildflower Cooperative to ensure you get ones that work in our ecosystem.

@joann2544 Жыл бұрын

@@WildFloridian thanks so much. I will look for them in my fall trip to the local native nurseries. Thanks for your videos!! 🌻🌼🌻🌼

@sasha2345 Жыл бұрын

What's the name of the cholocate smelling plant??

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

Florida Green Eyes

@busywithdogs 5 ай бұрын

Who do you watch in GA? Trying to find resources.

@donna4and4 10 ай бұрын

How do you eliminate your grass and control weeds?

@lilmak889 Жыл бұрын

Jackie, do you get any morpho butterflies or however they are spelled 🤣 these ones - 🦋

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

No 😭 They aren't indigenous to Florida. But I saw some in Costa Rica... they are soooo pretty.

@lilmak889 Жыл бұрын

@@WildFloridian yes, they are gorgeous. Maybe some way some day somehow they will venture here 😍

@noninoni9962 11 ай бұрын

A plant I used see in big box stores and nurseries, and advertised as "Florida Friendly," I don't see anymore... They are lusciously green, with little cute purple flowers that drop off at night but will grow back again the next morning... I THINK they are called "Mexican Petunias," and grow wild in the drainage creek next to my house... They're cute but unfortunately, I constantly need to pluck their small babies out of my yard where they pop up, and I'm going to pull ones that I transplanted into a flowerbed a few years ago because of the same reason... Plus, being the end of July, they ALL now have (for the first time) what looks like powdery mildew... I'm trying to treat those in the flowerbed with hydrogen perixide + water + surfectant, without much success... Are they now considered invasive??

@Florida882 Жыл бұрын

You don’t worry about roots when you plant things right next to the house? We removed a bunch of trees that rubbed on the roof and caused damage. The tree guy said how that’s the biggest mistake is putting things right close to a house.

@WildFloridian Жыл бұрын

Many of the plants I put near the house do not have the concrete breaking power. The one that I planted that is a watch out is the mulberry. When it comes to trees near the house… the closest is the cassia which doesn’t touch the roof line. The fire bush touch occasionally and then I prune them.