Jameson Instagramasks about upright plants for South Florida :
“ Hey Mr Good , I ’ve been watch a heap of your YouTube videos and I really revel watching them and learn a lot . I live in south Florida and I was wondering if you had and spare tips or character of plant I should get and experiment with . I require to go to montage for horticulture and before I finish high schooling I would like to have a good amount of experience and you seem to be a very smart adult male . So let me have sex if you have any plants , idea , or baksheesh for me give thanks you again ”
South Florida is essentially a tropical climate , allowing a nurseryman to raise all variety of wondrous mintage .
In my scant bookCreate Your Own Florida Food Forest , I partake a list of eatable plants I recommend for South Florida in Appendix 2 :
If you ’re more interested in veggie gardening , my longer bookTotally Crazy Easy Florida Gardeningfocuses on that . I spent multiple decades gardening in Fort Lauderdale and the challenges of the “ dirt ” and weather can often be overtake by select species that fit local precondition . Everglades tomatoes , grand - long edible bean , Seminole pumpkins , chaya , manioc – these plant will bear for you under less - than - ideal condition while common vegetable from farther north just give up .
Good Plants for South Florida, non-Edible Edition
If you ’re not interested in nutrient horticulture in South Florida and would rather grow orchidaceous plant , bamboo , palms , staghorn fern , etc . , my writing wo n’t help you very much . However , my recommendation on those plants is to travel to small nurseries that focus on specific interestingness and peach with the owners . There are a circle of recession nurseryman out there and some of them love their plants so much they start baby’s room dedicate to them .
nurseryman are just resource – often good than extension offices . Larger greenhouse are often less focused and more concerned in moving product than they are in the plants themselves . regrettably , many hoi polloi never see any nursery other than the glasshouse sphere at a Lowe ’s , Home Depot or Walmart . You need to chitchat independent nurseries to really match the plant lovers who will give you good guidance .
My Favorite Plants for South Florida
My personal favorite plants for South Florida arejaboticaba , coconut palm , chocolate pud fruit , Seminole pumpkins , yams ( Dioscorea spp . ) , perennial cucumber and coffee .
This repeated cucumber is a sound model of a super - easy Florida vegetable :
If I had all those species , I ’d be pretty happy . Sure , I ’d also be likely to keep collecting works , and I ’m certain if I had the space I ’d stick in a gumbo limbo , some mango trees , vanilla orchids , sea grape , acerola cherries … well , let ’s just say I ’d never stop . But I do have my favorites .
Good destiny and flatten me a lineage any time if you have questions .
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