Native Plants for Florida Gardens

by Stacey Matrazzo, Nancy Bissett

Overview

Florida is home to an entire library of native plants that evolved to thrive in its range of climate regions. Native Plants for Florida Gardens profiles 100 Florida native wildflowers, shrubs, vines and trees that can transform typical Florida landscapes. Striking color photography showcases species and flowering characteristics. With the expertise of the Florida Wildlife Foundation, anyone can create lovely, low-maintenance gardens that will tolerate Florida’s roughest conditions, resist disease, and support biodiversity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493043781
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	01/13/2020
Pages:	232
Sales rank:	487,944
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Nancy Bissett is a Florida Wildlife Foundation board member and horticulturist, restoration ecologist, and botanist with The Natives Inc., where she experiments with the propagation and growth of native plants including grasses, wildflowers and rare species.

Florida Master Naturalist Stacey Matrazzo joined the Florida Wildflower Foundation staff in 2015. She is an environmental educator and adjunct professor at Rollins College, Winter Park. A native Floridian, she spends much of her free time kayaking, hiking, birding and photographing Florida’s amazing natural environments.

The Florida Wildflower Foundation is the national advocate for Florida’s native wildflower species, many of which occur throughout the southeast. Through education, research and planting/conservation programs, FWF nurtures the awareness, understanding and enjoyment of native wildflowers and plants through school gardens, field trips, community planting projects, events, a roadside protection program, active partnerships, and publications.

Table of Contents

Introduction vi

Why native? vi

Right plant, right place vii

What to expect from your native garden viii

Get Growing! x

Wildflowers 1

Flowering Vines 91

Grasses 101

Trees and Shrubs 115

Glossary of Helpful Terms 210

Index 213

About the Authors 217

About the Florida Wildflower Foundation 218

Editorial Reviews

Native Plants for Florida Gardens is chockfull of tips and is a tremendous resource for both beginners and more advanced native plant gardeners. If you are just getting started, you will learn about the why and how of native plants, with special tips like planting for color throughout the seasons. Even better, authors Stacey Matrazzo and Nancy Bissett have thoughtfully selected just 100 native plants to highlight, which will be enough to satisfy your palette without you becoming totally overwhelmed by an exhaustive list or frustrated by lack of ability to find them to buy. For more experienced gardeners, there is even information about propagation, which is wishful thinking for some of us. While the book is an easy read at just over 200 pages, the amount of knowledge within is vast, accessible and inspiring, and will surely make you want to run outside and garden!



-Jacqui Sulek, Plants for Birds program, Audubon Florida

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