When living in Florida, one of the best ways to help the environment while also protecting your property from storm damage is to plant native trees. Florida’s native trees are naturally adapted to the climate and can often withstand hurricane-force winds better than...
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Florida Native Plants: The Florida Privet
Florida privet or Forestiera segregata is a wildlife attracting superstar. So Florida privet can grow about 10 to 15 feet tall and eight to 10 feet wide, will grow in full sun to part shade and is salt and drought tolerant. It flowers all...
Florida Native Plants Profile: Slash Pine
The slash pine, also known as Pinus elliottii is a fast-growing evergreen tree. The splash pine generally in this area is 50 to 60 feet tall and about 30 to 35 feet wide. It likes full sun and part sun environments and can grow in soils as...
Florida Native Plants: The Indestructible Coontie
This plant hearkens back to prehistoric times as the only cycad native to North America. The Coontie is a nearly indestructible plant that you can put almost anywhere. So Zamia integrifolia, also known as the Coontie is a slow-growing...
Common Misconceptions about Florida Native Plants
Hey everyone, welcome back to the nursery. I wanted to do a quick little video today because we hear a lot of things in the nursery, a lot of questions we get asked, but there's a couple of things that come up quite a bit, a lot of...
Florida Native Plant Profile: Wax Myrtle
Florida Native Plant Profile: Climbing Aster
https://youtu.be/jdD9PjcLo2I Presented by: Davis Byrkit Hey guys, welcome back to Wilcox Nursery. So today we're going to talk about one of our most prolific fall-blooming wildflowers. This stuff is called Climbing Aster. It's Symphyotrichum carolinianum. This one is...