Gardening Is So Different Here!: Re: Dilemmas of Florida landscaping

» pamj60 - Re: Dilemmas of Florida landscaping

In response to Dilemmas of Florida landscaping posted by FYNFAN:

I think the hardest part for newcomers to Florida is finding substitutes for the flowers they grew in the North. We can't grow lilacs here, but crape myrtle are darn pretty. Forsythia doesn't like our weather, but ixora is outstanding and blooms most of the summer and fall. And, let's not forget the always lovely plumbago.

It seems that for every plant I loved to see grow in South Dakota (where I'm from), I can find a very acceptable substitute that will thrive in Florida's heat and humidity.

And, when it's snowing up north and I'm planting pansies and petunias and impations that will give me months of bloom, well, it tends to solve any dilemna I may have thought existed.

-- posted by pamj60