What Are Native Plants?
In other words,
native Florida plants can survive Florida's wet and humid
summers, Planting native plants on your property helps preserve Florida's natural habitat. This is important now more than ever as Florida's incredibly diverse, wild ecosystems are replaced with homogenized landscapes of non-native exotic plants. Why Grow Native?
Birds, butterflies and other wildlife will be attracted to your landscape. Native plants will flourish without fertilizers and pesticides. Native plants need less water and maintenance which gives you more time to enjoy them! Help preserve Florida’s unique natural heritage. With native plants your landscape will be unique and beautiful. Some of our favorite native Florida nurseries: Maple Street Natives -
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Imagine The Possibilities! Replace your under utilized lawn areas with low maintenance native groundcover. Use large sweeps of native grasses and wildflowers for bold sweeps of color and texture in your landscape. Create a butterfly garden.Plant native trees and shrubs as habitat and food source for birds.Create a unique, beautiful and lush landscape using native plants!
Where do
I find native plants While, on occasion, you can find some native plants at your local retail nursery, you have to know what your are looking for and not be distracted by the large variety of non-native plants they offer. We recommend that you visit a truly native nursery that sells to retail customers. Below are some of our favorites below, but for a complete list of native nurseries in the state of Florida, visit the Association of Florida Native Nurseries web site.
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Native plants are
trees, shrubs, and wildflowers that thrived in an area prior to
European settlement. These plants have evolved over a
millennium to be ideally suited to that ecosystem in terms of
soil type, climate, wildlife food and habitat. 
Our native plants
are ideally suited to thrive in Florida soils and climate.
