Features
4 Native Landscapes Come in All Styles
10 Buyer Beware: Cultivars of Native Plants
13 Starry Silphium: a native plant to use now
15 Skyblue Clustervine: a native plant to use now
16 Advancing the Next Generation for Native Plants
19 False Indigo: a native plant to use now
21 Cinnamon Bark: a native plant to use now
22 Please, Leave our Spanish Moss Alone
23 Turkey-Tangle Fogfruit: a native plant to use now
Real Florida Resources
24 Florida Native Plant Society
26 Real Florida Resources
26 Online & Mail Order Sources
26 Earth Friendly Mulch
26 Environmental Services
27 Retail Nurseries & Garden Centers
30 Landscape Professionals
ABOUT THIS GUIDE: This annual publication is a quick introduction to Florida
native plants and the benefits of using them in your home landscape. Available
free from your local FANN nursery or online.
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plant nurseries and landscape and environmental professionals. We grow, plant
and promote native plants for sustainable Real Florida.
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Life in Your Landscape
Happens with Native Plants
What do we have here? Creamy colored sugar sand
dug from below ground and tossed to the surface by
Ms. Vanderbilt, a gopher tortoise who somehow made
her way through a suburban Orlando neighborhood to a
native landscape maintained by FANN member Amanda
Martin, Grounded Solutions. All those native wildflowers
are just steps away from the street. Amanda has given
Ms. Vanderbilt some added privacy by planting a clump
of native lovegrass, Eragrostis elliottii, near the tortoise’s
burrow entrance. The stick pile may house other “neighbors.”
Plant it and they come. This is the deeply joyful and
rewarding experience that native landscape owners have.
You can have it too. What can it look like? See different
landscape styles using all or mostly Florida native plants
on the next few pages. Visit the professionals page on our
PlantRealFlorida.org site to find help and plants near you.
About our cover:
Lives can be changed with just one
native plant and its ecological story.
Be the example your neighborhood
needs now. Our future depends on
a change of values.
Artwork by Spence Guerin.
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