Benefits of Landscaping with Keystone Native Trees To put it plainly, incorporating native trees into your landscape is easy! You just need to pick the appropriate tree for the space (right plant, right place… right?). So then why aren't we planting more trees in our...
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Choosing Native Plants To Attract Birds
If you are looking for high drama, all you may need to do is step outside into your back yard and look around. You may be entranced by the sight of bird life from kestrels to goldfinches, robins to orioles, hummingbirds to house wrens, barn owls to kildeer. You may...
Wilcox Nursery Guide: How To Plant Silver Buttonwood
Conocarpus erectus var. sericeus The silver buttonwood tree is a member of the Combretaceae family and is considered a great addition for Florida coastal gardens because of its unusual silvery-gray color leaves, appealing growth habit and shapely trunk. Silver...

Drought-Tolerant Plants For Your Florida Native Landscape
As in nature, so also in gardens and commercial landscapes, water is a crucial factor for plant growth. The absence of adequate rainfall or irrigation for a period of time can lead to drought stress, which can reduce plant growth. Drought stress happens when water...
How and Why To Use Native Plants for Landscaping
Every day more people are choosing native plants when landscaping because it creates a more sustainable space. Since native plants thrive where they’re planted, there is no need for pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers. And, native landscaping better manages storm...

How To Grow Muhly Grass
If you really want a versatile ornamental grass that will put on a spectacular show in your garden, then you don’t need to look further than Muhly Grass. This hardy and easy to grow grass creates a wonderful flair of showy cotton-candy pink cloud of flowers each...

Planting Guide For The Redbud – Florida Native
A redbud tree puts on a spectacular show of fiery pink blooms in early spring (March to April) that most people are likely to remember always. The entire deciduous tree fills up with miniature clusters of bright purplish-pink flowers that extend out from smooth grey...