Scan the QR code below to access the Post Hurricane Ian Replanting Guide developed by FANN member Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) Native Landscapes & Garden Center (SCCF.org). Share with your friends and family on Florida’s southwest coast.
Drawing by Spence Guerin,
PEOPLE, PLANT YOUR PONDS: Too many ponds are turf to the water’s edge, devoid of life, poorly maintained and poisoned. Native aquatic plants keep your water clean, feed and protect wildlife—including birds, insects and even fish that eat mosquitoes— and prevent your property from eroding. Please don’t be unnecessarily afraid of gators and snakes. You can stay away from them. Truly, they have much more to fear from you than vice versa. Work with a FANN pro that knows native plants and can help you achieve a beautiful, lively and resilient landscape. What you plant, matters.
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PULP Gardens: an Artist’s Collabo
What kind of landscape will emerge from a design process that honors interspecies collaboration from the outset?
For some artists, nature is not just a source of inspiration, but also a medium. Artist Evan Galbicka is using native and Florida-friendly plants in what he describes as a collaboration with Florida’s pollinators, PULP Gardens at PULP, an arts center in the nor theast community of Gainesville, Florida. Evan’s holistically designed outdoor spaces create special experiences for artists and visitors, and provide pollinators with resources they need to thrive.
Evan views collaboration as an integral part of his artistic process and considered how he might apply collaboration to a landscape design. And so he began his ecological art project for PULP with this question: What kind of landscape design will emerge from a design process that honors interspecies collaboration from the outset? He decided to focus his inquiry on pollination, an interspecies collaboration and kind of metaphor for the purpose of PULP, where studio infrastructure and artists collaborate to create diverse works of art and music.
As we walked through the first stage of PULP Garden, a sea of plantings dense in color and texture, Evan described his design process. While visiting nearby natural areas, he would sketch the flight paths of pollinators. He would then collage them together to create different compositions that he could use in laying out the garden site plan. These “networks of lines” became the foundational framework for the garden; dividing planting beds from graveled pathway, organizing plants into form, and situating other elements within the space. His plant palette of Florida natives and Florida-friendly plants is deeply rooted in the desire to increase biodiversity and pollinator habitat, making not only a design inspired by pollinators, but a habitat where they could flourish. Evan’s intentions were clearly succeeding—zebra longwings, monarchs and cloudless sulphurs dashed around as he spoke, crossing paths with each other as they hopped from bee balm to echi-
collaboration, as pollinator flight paths
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His installations, sculptures and other art projects are inspired by the interconnected world of plant, animal and mineral. Plants shown: creeping onto the sidewalk is sunshine mimosa, Mimosa strigillosa, with St. Johns-wort, Hypericum species, layered through the middle, dune sunflower, Helianthus debilis, in the back, and a bald cypress tree, Taxodium distichum, showing its seasonal color change.
Artist Evan Galbicka in a corner of PULP Gardens, a landscape he has designed for PULP, an arts center in Gainesville, Florida. Evan describes this project as an interspecies
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On this day, there was no breeze, yet the landscape was in motion—swamp mallow blossoms were bobbing under the weight of bumble bees and the young wildflower meadow buzzed as insects zipped between blooms. We quietly watched a group of hummingbirds darting from treetops to firebush, whispering to each other “how incredible, how neat,” as their squeaks and twitter sounded, and trying not to scare them away. Every so often, we paused our conversation to pay attention to these moments together. Learn more about Evan’s work and PULP: egalbicka.com and pulparts.com
Editor’s note: While the layering of plants, as shown at left, can be helpful to wildlife and visually rich, it can be a real challenge to maintain. Doing your own design? Plan for maintenance when you place your plants.
by Isabella Guttuso Browne,
visiting coneflower blossoms. Perennial coneflower, Echinacea purpurea, occurs naturally throughout the eastern half of the U.S., in conditions very different from its limited native range in northern Florida, where it is found in limestone glades and is endangered. Many cultivars and hybrids are sold at box stores and by mail order. If these survive in your landscape, they may behave like annuals. Experienced Florida gardeners advise purchasing ecotype plants from FANN member nurseries such as Native Nurseries in Tallahassee, who know their stock originated from the Florida population, and planting in partly sunny, well drained sites in central to north Florida.
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Artist Evan Galbicka points to his installation which maps the grounds and the “pollinator flight paths” he used for organizing the landscape design.
Monarch
Simple, Striking Design with readily available native plants
A scene from Bok Tower Gardens, in Lake Wales: three readily available and easily maintained native species add volume, texture and color to this space. In the foreground, sand cordgrass, Spartina bakeri; in the middle, firebush, Hamelia patens, contrasting beautifully with the silver saw palmetto, Serenoa repens 'Silver', in back. These choices will work in north, central and south Florida, and provide food and cover for pollinators and birds. Just a few plants are needed to fill a large space when you consider the mature sizes of these species. One silver saw palmetto shrub will reach 3-8' in height and spread. A firebush will grow 3-10' high, taller in South Florida than north, and spread 3-6' across. A single cordgrass can reach 3-5' in height and spread. If you start with small plants, as most of us do, just fill the spaces with wildflowers and mulch until your big plants reach maturity.
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Native Plants to use Now: Wildflowers Cardinal Flower
Lobelia cardinalis
Deciduous perennial zones 8-10
A stunning plant that reliably attracts hummingbirds, butterflies, bees and people, cardinal flower is a great choice to use along the edges of retention ponds, canal banks and drainage swales – or anywhere you can keep the ground consistently moist to wet. Some gardeners keep it in pots placed in shallow water, such as small constructed ponds. The best establishment and flowering will occur in rich, acidic, poorly drained soils with full sun to part shade. A little shade may be welcome in the hottest parts of the state. Bloom time is summer and may last as long as a month.
This plant dies all the way to the ground in the winter, rarely retaining any basal leaves. Leaves will begin to emerge again in the spring. Take care when you mow the edges of your pond so that you don’t accidentally eliminate this beautiful plant.
Cardinal flower ranges throughout the United States and is a popular garden plant with numerous cultivars. To preserve native Florida, buy your plants from a reliable FANN member nursery such as Green Isle Gardens, Little Red Wagon Native Nursery, Stocking Savvy, Sweet Bay Nursery and others offering cardinal flower.
Hummingbirds can nectar from many blooms on a single cardinal flower plant.
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Native Plants to use Now: Groundcovers
Pineland Heliotrope
Euploca polyphylla
Endemic perennial, zones 9-11
This flowering groundcover is available in a somewhat creeping white-flowered form and an often somewhat more erect yellowflowered form. The white-flowering form rarely exceeds 12" in height, while the yellow-flowering form may get taller, but can be kept shorter with pruning. Butterflies and bees will enjoy the many small flowers on both forms, and so will you.
Pineland heliotrope adapts well to a variety of soil conditions and blooms well in full sun for much of the year. Cold sensitive, it can “burn” in the winter. Resist the urge to cut dead foliage until warmer weather returns.
This plant likes to spread but is readily contained by pruning. You can use this plant to cover large areas of ground, but it does not tolerate foot traffic.
ISABELLA GUTTUSO BROWNE
Left: The generally more prostrate white-flowered form of pineland heliotrope along a sidewalk and next to a low wall used for seating. Above: A zebra swallowtail butterfly stops to efficiently draw nectar from the many tiny flowers found on this one pineland heliotrope plant (yellow form). Yes, the butterfly would happily nectar on white flowers as well.
Native Plants to use Now: Shrubs
Beautyberry
Callicarpa americana
Deciduous, zones 8-11
Looking for fall color? Consider the magenta fruit clusters of American beautyberry. Birds eat the fruit and the tiny light pink flowers that precede the fruit are attractive to small bees.
This shrub reaches 4-8' in height and 3-6' in spread. It can be evergreen in South Florida, but loses its leaves farther north. Learn to recognize Florida’s seasons and enjoy an ever-changing landscape. Beautyberry naturally has an open, irregular, arching habit, but can be severely pruned for a denser, more compact shape.
Beautyberry tolerates a variety of soil and light conditions, but will look its best in richer soils and full sun. This is an easy plant for newbies and will reseed and spread if you allow it. Post Hurricane Ian reports give it a thumbs up for resilience.
An unpruned stand of beautyberry in full fruit glory.
Lyonia
Lyonia species
Evergreen, zones 8-10
The two species of Lyonia most readily available from FANN member native nurseries are shiny lyonia, Lyonia lucida, and rusty lyonia, L. ferruginea. Both can be used for naturalistic hedges and mixed shrub beds. Rusty lyonia may attain the height of a small tree. Both prefer full sun to part shade and well-drained sandy soils. Both offer numerous small, bell-shaped flowers attractive to bees. Shiny lyonia flowers range from white to light pink to rose, while rusty lyonia flowers are white. Establishing lyonia is worth the effort. In the right place, it will require little or no maintenance.
At left, the many rose-colored flowers of blooming shiny lyonia, and at right, the characteristic “rusty” color of new foliage on rusty lyonia.
American Lotus Nelumbo Lutea
Herbaceous aquatic perennial, Zones 8-11
This is an incredibly useful plant for wildlife and people. The fabulous flowers are visited by bees, beetles and other insects which, according to University of Florida biologist Jack Putz, spend the night wrapped up in the blossoms, collecting and eating pollen. The flowers are followed by very distinctive seedpods, often found in floral and craft stores where they are sold for use in dried arrangements. The seeds are an important source of food for water birds and the leaves provide shelter for fish and the invertebrates they eat. Native Americans ate all parts of this plant: roots, shoots, leaves and blossoms, and used the plant medicinally as well. Forager Green Dean, of eattheweeds.com fame, suggests wilting the large leaves and using them to wrap foods, as is done for pasteles and tamales with banana leaves and corn husks. If you do this, use only leaves from your own plants and be certain that herbicides or pesticides are not used in the pond.
Particularly showy from late spring into summer with its large
flowers up to 10" across, tall stalks, large round leaves, and tendency to spread if it’s happy, American lotus likes full sun and mostly still freshwater that is only rarely agitated. Although b est suited for ponds, lakes and even drainage ditches, you can keep it contained in a large pot filled with water – but it will likely dominate and be the only plant in the pot. It tolerates a variety of soils as long as it is consistently wet. FANN member Stocking Savvy has been working to reintroduce American lotus. Its availability may be limited to springtime or seed. Ask for it.
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Beach-tea
Croton punctatus
Herbaceous “sub-shrub,” Zones 8-11
Uncommon to rare in its native coastal habitats, beach-tea is gaining popularity for use as a small landscape shrub or groundcover in full sun and very well-drained sandy soils. The light gray-green foliage can be a lovely contrast with the many other green colors in your landscape. Beachtea is also easily kept to a lower height, 2' or so, which makes it front-yard friendly in the most manicured of settings. It will spread to about twice as wide as it is high. The tiny flowers are fragrant and attractive to bees and butterflies. Why is it called tea? No one seems to know. Do not ingest it.
As a coastal plant, beach-tea is immune to intense sunlight, strong, salty winds, and sandy soils with low nutrient levels. Although it is very drought tolerant once established, gardeners repor t that extra water provided during dry spells will produce bigger, prettier plants. Beach-tea reseeds readily, a good thing, as it is not particularly long lived (3-4 years on average). Find this plant at select FANN member nurseries, like Wilcox Nursery & Landscape. Ask for it everywhere else.
Native Plants to use Now: Shrubs
DPI Reg #3684000
n Landcape services
n Nursery / Plants for sale
n Ecological services
n Other products
ALACHUA COUNTY
Bee Good Landscape
H 10 years FANN membership per star
9 % of plant inventory that is FL native
s Grows from locally collected seed r strives for no-low impact pesticides
Gainesville • 352-363-1093 • travis@beegoodlandscape.com beegoodlandscape.com • e i
n Design, install, maintain, exotic control
GROW-HUB
2900 NE 8th Ave, Gainesville • 352-275-7144 info@grow-hub.org • grow-hub.org • e i
n Walk-in nursery
Landscape Design Associates
25110 NW 182nd Ave, High Springs • 352-210-5765 smarcks@landscapeda.com • landscapeda.come.com • e
n Design, install, landscape architect
UF Native Plant Nursery 1 s University of Florida campus • gagemo@ufl.edu ffgs.ifas.ufl.edu/native-plant-nursery • e i
1380 D’albora Rd, Merritt Island • 321-417-2218 wildwetnwacky@gmail.com • wildwetnwacky.com • e i
n Walk-in nursery
Steadytown
Melbourne • 321-419-9839 • keith@steadytown.org steadytown.org • e
City of Titusville _ See ad pg. 22 321-567-3865 • 2836 Garden St, Titusville • maureen.phillips@titusville.com • titusville.com/416/water-conservation
Conradina Chapter Florida Native Plant Society
___ See ad pg. 29 321-724-1931 • cwinebarger@cfl.rr.com • conradina.fnpschapters.org • e i y
Sea Rocket Chapter Florida Native Plant Society _ searocketfnps@gmail.com searocket.fnpschapters.org • e i y
BROWARD COUNTY
Beds for Butterflies 5 Deerfield Beach • 954-901-5880 info@bedsforbutterflies.com bedsforbutterflies.square.site/ • e i n Walk-in nursery, order online, pickup
Green Thumb H See ad pg. 29 Fort Lauderdale • 954-558-6359 greenthumb.go.native@gmail.com • greenthumbinc.com • e i n Design, install, maintain, education n Education, exotic control
Broward Chapter Florida Native Plant Society broward.fnpschapters.org • i
CHARLOTTE COUNTY
Mangrove Chapter Florida Native Plant Society _ mangrove.fnpschapters.org • e y
People’s Alliance for Sustaining Our Posterity __ eas@pasop.org • pasop.org • e
Chiappini Farm Native Nursery
CITRUS COUNTY
Anson Nursery See ad pg. 29 5296 W Homosassa Tr, Lecanto • 352-628-4554 • plants@ansonnursery.net • ansonnursery.net • e
n Walk-in nursery
n Design, install, coach
Citrus Chapter Florida Native Plant Society _ citrus.fnpschapters.org • e i y
COLLIER COUNTY
Everglades Native Designs HHH
Naples • 239-300-8115 • eryksj@gmail.com evergladesnativedesigns.com • e
n Design, install, coach
Landert Landscape Design See ad pg. 23 Naples • 239-961-6106 • leslie.landert@gmail.com landertlandscapedesign.com • e i
n Design, coach
Naples Chapter Florida Native Plant Society _ naples.fnpschapters.org • e i y
DESOTO COUNTY
Sandhill H
5980 SE County Rd 760, Arcadia • 863-494-9737 chrisholly@sandhillgrowers.com sandhillgrowers.com • e i
n Exotic control/removal, lake & pond management, restoration
DUVAL COUNTY
Serenoa Landscape Design
1074 10th Ave S, Jacksonville • andy@serenoagardendesign.com 904-608-7296 • serenoagardendesign.com • e i y
Wacca Pilatka 9 s See ad pg. 18 Jacksonville • 904-859-4033 • keepingfloridawild@gmail.com waccapilatka.com • e i n Order online, pickup n Design, install, maintain
Ixia Chapter Florida Native Plant Society _ ixia.fnpschapters.org • e i y
ESCAMBIA COUNTY
Longleaf Pine Chapter Florida Native Plant Society ___ See ad pg. 31 fnps.longleaf.pine@gmail.com longleafpine.fnpschapters.org • eiy
GILCHRIST COUNTY
Natural Treasures Farm & Nursery H 9 s 10870 SE25th Ave, Trenton • 352-225-1381 • e naturaltreasuresfn@gmail.com • natural-treasures-farm-nursery-by-appointment.business.site/ n By appointment only, pop-up-sales
HERNANDO COUNTY
Hernando Chapter Florida Native Plant Society _ hcfnps@gmail.com • hcfnps.org • e i
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY
Conner Landscape Architects
Tampa • 813-258-1997 • dconner@conner-la.com • e i y
n Design, landscape architect
Laurie Potier-Brown, RLA
Tampa •813-918-1338 • lpotier@tampabay.rr.com
n Design, landscape architect
Little Red Wagon Native Nursery 7 See ad pg. 21 4113 Henderson Blvd • Tampa • 813-755-9579 • info@butterflytampa.com • littleredwagonnativenursery.com • e i
n Walk-in nursery
n Education
Springer Environmental Services H 1 s See ad pg. 8 5926 US Hwy 92 W • Plant City • info@springerenvironmental.com 813-659-0370 • springerenvironmental.com • e i y
n Walk-in nursery
n Design, install, maintain
Stantec Consulting Services
Riverview • 813-267-4436 • leonard.morrow@stantec.com stantec.com/en • e i y
n Exotic control/removal, land & pond management
Whitwam Organics
Tampa • 813-803-0024 • info@whitwamorganics.com whitwamorganics.com • e i y
n Order online, local delivery, pickup
n Fertilizers, Organics, Soil, Irrigation, Soil supplements
Suncoast Chapter Florida Native Plant Society ___ See ad pg. 30 hcfnps@gmail.com • suncoast.fnpschapters.org • e i y
INDIAN RIVER COUNTY
Treasure Coast Naturescaping
Vero Beach • 850-567-6069 • rsiplak@gmail.com tcnaturescaping.com n Design, maintain
Eugenia Chapter Florida Native Plant Society ___ See ad pg. 31 772-567-1565 • jfavril@comcast.net • ircnativeplants.org • e
LAKE COUNTY
Green Isle Gardens Nursery HH 1 s See ad pg. 6 11303 SR 33 • Groveland • 407-948-898 • gignatives@gmail.com • greenislegardens.com • e i
n Walk-in nursery, local delivery
n Design, install, maintain, horticulture, coach, education n Exotic control/removal, restoration
My Dragonfly Gardens Minneola • 407-627-0811 • inquiries@mydragonflygardens.com mydragonflygardens.com/fann • e i y
n Design, install, maintain, horticulturist, plant ID, education
Reliable Peat
Leesburg • 407-656-9766 • reliablepeat.com/retail-products/ • e
n Décor, fertilizers, mulch, soil, stone, equipment
Things That Grow
See ad pg. 28
12803 SR 33 S, Groveland • 352-394-1249 tgsellards@aol.com • thingsthatgrowinc.com • e i
n Walk-in nursery
Lake Beautyberry Chapter FL Native Plant Society lakebeautyberry.fnpschapters.org • e
Passionflower Chapter Florida
Native Plant Society ___ See ad pg. 31 • e i y passionflower.fnps@gmail.com • passionflower.fnpschapters.org
LEE COUNTY
All Native Garden Center & Plant Nursery HH 9
See ad pg. 11
300 Center Rd, Fort Myers • 239-939-9663 joaquin@nolawn.com • nolawn.com • e i
n Walk-in nursery
n Install, maintain
Natives of Corkscrew Nursery 9
Estero • 239-849-9230 • contactus@corkscrewnatives.com • nativesofcorkscrew.com • e
n Exotic control/removal, lake & pond management
R. S. Walsh Landscaping
3889 Sanibel-Captiva Rd • Sanibel • 239-395-5859 jeremy@rswalsh.com • rswalsh.com • e i
n Walk-in nursery
n Design, install, maintain
SCCF Native Landscapes & Garden Center HHH 1 s
1300 Periwinkle Way • Sanibel, 239-472-1932 jevans@sccf.org • sccf.org • e i y
n Walk-in nursery, local delivery
n Design, maintain, coach, education
Coccoloba Chapter Florida Native Plant Society
_____ See ad pg. 26 239-273-8945 • coccoloba@fnps.org fnpscoccoloba.org • e i y
LEON COUNTY
Native Nurseries of Tallahassee HH 7
See ad pg. 23 1661 Centerville Rd • Tallahassee • 850-386-8882 • nativenurseries@gmail.com • nativenurseries.com • e i y
n Walk-in nursery
Magnolia Chapter Florida Native Plant Society _ magnoliafnps@gmail.com • magnolia.fnpschapters.org • e
MANATEE COUNTY
McKeithen Growers HH 5 s Myakka City • 941-232-9377 • eddie@mckeithen.net mckeithengrowers.com n By appointment only
Sweet Bay Nursery HH 1 s See ad pg. 10 10824 Erie Rd • Parrish • 941-776-0501 • sweetbaynursery@gmail.com • sweetbaynursery.com • e i
n Walk-in nursery nDécor, fertilizers organics, soil supplements
MARION COUNTY
Marion Big Scrub Chapter FL Native Plant Society _ marionbigscrubfnps@gmail.com marionbigscrub.fnpschapters.org • e y
MARTIN COUNTY
Ecolo-G
1472 SE 13th St, Stuart • 561-399-1549 ecologinc@bellsouth.net
n Land management, restoration, research
Martin County Chapter Florida Native Plant Society ___ See ad pg. 27 martincountychapter@fnps.org martincounty.fnpschapters.org • e
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY
Bryce Donner Designs
Miami • 786-371-8833 • bryce@brycedonner.com brycedonner.com • i
n Design, landscape architect
Casey's Corner Nursery & Landscaping H 9 s 31877 SW 197th Ave • Homestead • 305-248-7284
n Walk-in nursery, by appointment
n Design, install
Green Spirit Gardens 5
Hialeah • 786-402-1531 • greenspiritmiami@gmail.com greenspiritmiami.com • e i
n Order online, local delivery, pickup
n Design, install, coach
NaMa Native Landscapes
Miami • 305-713-3596 • namanatives@gmail.com • namaprojects.com • e i
n Design, install, maintain
Pro Native Consulting 1 s Miami • info@pronativeconsulting.com • pronative.com
n Pop-up sales, by appointment
Studio Cuesta Miami • chris@studiocuesta.com • studiocuesta.com • i y
n Design, install
Dade Chapter Florida Native Plant Society _ 305-985-3677 • dadefnps@gmail.com dade.fnpschapters.org • e i y
MONROE COUNTY
Key West Tropical Forest & Botanical Garden 5210 College Rd • Key West, 305-296-1504 info@keywest.garden • kwbgs.org • e i y
n Walk-in nursery, by appointment
OKALOOSA COUNTY
Plantopia s
Niceville • 850-368-3762
n By appointment only
ORANGE COUNTY
Connected Landscapes
Orlando • 252-515-2840 • connectedlandscapes.com learnmore@connectedlandscapes.com • e i
n Design, install, maintain
Green Images Native Landscape Plants HHH 1 s See ad pg. 27
1333 Taylor Creek Rd, Christmas • 407-568-133 greenimage@aol.com • e n By appointment only
Grounded Solutions
Orlando • 352-219-5381 • amanda@groundedsol.com groundedsol.com • e i y
n Design, install, horticulturist, coach
Orlando Native Plants, An Urban Nursery 1 See ad pg. 29
Orlando • 407-443-6666 • perez.rey1@gmail.com • e i n By appointment only
Florida Wildflower Foundation _____ See ad pg. 15 407-622-1606 • info@flawildflowers.org flawildflowers.org • e i y
Tarflower Chapter Florida Native Plant Society _____ See ad pg. 24 tarflower.fnps@gmail.com • tarflower.fnpschapters.org • e i y
OSCEOLA COUNTY
Pine Lily Chapter Florida Native Plant Society pinelily.fnpschapters.org • e i y
PALM BEACH COUNTY
Amelia's SmartyPlants
1515 N Dixie Hwy Lake Worth • 561-540-6296 marta@ameliscpaes.com • amelias-smartyplants.com • e i
n Walk-in nursery
Coastal Management Consulting Lake Worth • 561-441-1446 • beachmaker@aol.com
n Restoration
General Landscaping Corporation See ad pg. 19 Boca Raton • 561-994-3755 • generalland@bellsouth.net
n Design, install, landscape architect
Indian Trails Native Nursery HHH 1 s See ad pg. 13 6315 Park Ln W, Lake Worth • 561-641-9488 injntrails@aol.com • indiantrails.vpweb.com • e i
n Walk-in nursery
Lorax Designs H 7713 Park Lane Rd • Lake Worth • 954-592-2980 lxdesigns13@gmail.com
n Design, coach
Meadow Beauty Nursery HHH 1 s 5782 Ranches Rd • Lake Worth • 561-601-9673 clwillow@comcast.net • meadowbeautynursery.com • e
n Walk-in nursery, by appointment
n Design, install
Mesozoic Landscapes HHH Lake Worth • 561-967-2630 • moyroud@prodigy.net
n Design, install, plant ID
Native Choice H 1 s
West Palm Beach • 561-843-1192 • jeffrem@bellsouth.net
nativechoicenursery.com
n By appointment only
Neglected Plants
Lake Worth • 561-767-6554 • neglectedplants18@gmail.com • neglectedplants.com • i
n Install, maintain, coach
SOLitude Lake Management
9218 87th Pl S • Boynton Beach • 888-480-5253 palmbeach@solitudelake.com solitudelakemanagement.com • e i y
n Exotic control/removal, lake & pond management
The Nursery at Sustainscape
Boynton Beach • 561-245-5305 • e i info@sustainscapeflorida.com • www.sustainscapeflorida.com
n Design, install
Palm Beach Chapter Florida Native Plant Society _ palmbeach.fnpschapters.org • e
PASCO COUNTY
Forest Environmental Solutions
Dade City • 352-206-8776 • joe@fesfl.com • fesfl.com • y
n Exotic control/removal, land management, mitigation, restoration
Nature Coast Chapter Florida Native Plant Society
___ See ad pg. 28 813-435-8143 • naturecoastfnps@gmail.com pasconativeplants.org • e y
PINELLAS COUNTY
Butterfly Habitat Restoration 1 s
Pinellas Park • 440-942-3100 • e
n By appointment only, local delivery n Design, install
Gulf Coast Gardening 1 s
Largo • gulfcoastgardeningllc@gmail.com • i
n By appointment only
Hort and Soul Landscape Design e i Palm Harbor • 727-599-3244 • nicole.hortandsoul@gmail.com
n Design
Kuras Design
St Petersburg • 813-331-5808 michael@kurasdesign.com • kurasdesign.com n Design, install, coach, education
Living Roots Eco Design 5
4950 38th Ave N • St Petersburg • 727-337-4877 • e i y garden@livingrootsecodesign.com • livingrootsdesign.com n Walk-in nursery n Design, install, maintain, coach
Natural Eye Landscape Design and Lawncare
Clearwater • 727-600-3168 • jaclyne.naturaleyedesign@gmail.com • naturaleyelandscape.com • e i n Design, maintain
PM Garden Design
St Petersburg • 202-255-2573 • paul@pmgardendesign.com
pmgardendesign.com • e i n Design, install
Six Oaks Wellness Apothecary
607 1st Ave SW • Largo • 727-501-1700
cvzinober@gmail.com • e i
n By appointment only
Stoneshovel Designs
St Petersburg • 205-901-8600 arnoldrutkis@gmail.com • stoneshovel.com • e
n Design, install
Twigs & Leaves H 9 s
610 27th St S• St Petersburg • 727-822-5400 twigsnleavessp@gmail.com • twigsnleaves.com • e i y
n Walk-in nursery
n Design, install, coach
Wilcox Nursery & Landscape HH 7 See ad pg. 2 Largo • 727-595-2073 • nativeplants@wilcoxnursery.com wilcoxnursery.com • e i y
n Walk in, order online, local delivery, pickup
n Design, install, maintain, education n Décor, pots, mulch
Wise Hands 1 s
St Petersburg • 727-275-0521 grow@thewisehands.com • e i
n Design, install, maintain, exotic, education, coach
Pinellas Chapter
Florida Native Plant Society ___ See ad below right info@pinellasnativeplants.org pinellasnativeplants.org • e i y
Native Plants for Florida Gardens, Stacey Matrazzo and Nancy Bissett, Pineapple Press, 2020.
A Step-by-Step Guide to a Florida Native Yard, Ginny Stibolt & Marjorie Shropshire, University Press of Florida, 2018.
Native Florida Plans for Shady Landscapes, Craig Huegel, University Press of Florida, 2015.
Native Wildflowers and Other Groundcovers for Florida Landscapes, Craig Huegel, University Press of Florida, 2012.
Native Plant Landscaping for Florida Wildlife, Craig Huegel, University Press of Florida, 2010.
Natural Florida Landscaping, using native plants for a beautiful, life-supporting, and environmentally sensitive landscape, Dan Walton and Laurel Schiller, Pineapple Press, 2007.
Florida’s Best Native Landscape Plants, 200 Readily Available Species for Homeowners and Professionals, Gil Nelson, University Press of Florida, 2003.
Buy local, check our online store at PlantRealFlorida.org or if you shop Amazon, please use this link: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/47-4333010
ONLINE VENDORS
These vendors ship their products, including plants.
Contact Organics USA See ad pg. 24 Maurice, IA • 712-441-3911 • info@contactorganics.com contactorganics.com • e i y n Weed control
Florida Native Wildflowers 1 s West Melbourne • 32904 floridanativewildflowers.com • e i n Plants for sale
Locally Flowered s Dade City • locallyflowered@gmail.com locallyflowered.com • e i n Plants for sale
Green Seasons Nursery HHH 9 s
Parrish • 941-776-1605 • seaoater@gmail.com greenseasonsnursery.com/retail-nursery n Plants for sale
Mail-Order Natives HH 9 s
Lee • 850-973-7371 • mailordernatives@gmail.com mailordernatives.com • e i n Plants for sale
Whitwam Organics s
Tampa • 813-803-0024 • info@whitwamorganics.com whitwamorganics.com • e i y n Plants for sale
Looking for retail nurseries offering native plants? Ecological landscape services for your home or community? FANN is your resource.
Key
Each box on the map represents a business, individual professional or other entity providing services as color coded below. Multiple colored boxes may represent one entity providing multiple services.
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10 Larger boxes with numbers designate regional concentrations of businesses providing services, often in the same or adjacent cities.
SEE PAGES 20-31 for contact details. Listings organized alphabetically by county.
SEE PAGE 31 for online vendors, including nurseries that ship plants to your door.
We are a nonprofit trade association serving business members: growers, retail nurseries, design professionals, landscapers and others in the business of native plants. For nearly 40 years, FANN has provided industry leadership in native plant production and use through education, networking and promotion. We are proud to be part of Florida’s vibrant native plant movement. Native plants are a simple solution that all of us can apply to solving many environmental problems.
FOR THE PUBLIC: You might be a “Real Florida Gardener” or maybe you just want to do your part to protect and restore the natural world. THANK YOU. Seek out FANN members to help you. Encourage your local garden and landscape businesses to join and transform their businesses. Be sure you support organizations like the Florida Native Plant Society and Florida Wildflower Foundation. Together, we build the healthy, resilient world we need.
FOR HORTICULTURE, LANDSCAPE & ENVIRONMENTAL PROFESSIONALS: Together, we can meet the increasing demand for native plants and landscapes that do more than look good. FANN welcomes you. There’s room on the map for many more plant and service suppliers. Join us now: FANN.org or call 321-271-4885. Emerging professionals, career switchers and students can find help from the Native Plant Horticulture Foundation, nativeplanthort.org. See pp. 16-17.
