I’m so excited to update you all on my Florida Native Wildflower Garden! With over 30 native wildflowers, I’ll walk you through the different native plants and some other Florida Native Plant Landscaping areas.
List of Wildflowers:
Coreopsis Levinworthii
Beach Verbena
Blue Curls
Dotted Horsemint
Sweet Goldenrod
Black Eyed Susan
Blue Eyed Grass
Blanket Flower
Sunshine Mimosa
Frogfruit
Other Native Wildflowers shown in video:
Dune Sunflower
Coral Honeysuckle
Blue Ocean Morning Glory
Seaside Goldenrod
Narrowleaf Yellowtop
Spiderwort
Maypop Passionvine
Beautyberry
Scorpiontail
Pineland Lantana
Swamp Milkweed
Butterfly Weed
Giant Ironweed
Florida Wild Petunia
Native Porterweed
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46 Comments
Watched your video this morning and was inspired to get more plants for my wildflower/pollinator bed. Went to my local nursery this afternoon and picked up some dune sunflowers, blanket flowers, coreopsis, and sunshine mimosa. Waiting till this evening to plant them so the sun doesn't bake me alive. Been seeing more bees and butterflies in my yard since I started planting more Florida natives. Hopefully some day I'll see a hummingbird too!
I love your garden! my husband & I watch alot as we just moved to FL recently & want to make a nice garden here in FL. But we are not green thumbs. We continue stuck on how do you know where to plant? like sun verse part sun or pairing plants. we have tried but seems we can't get them down like you or others!!! Any guide for how to know where to plant would be awesome! Thank youuuuu
Those black-eyed susans are so pretty! I'm going to guess that yellow is your favorite color 😉
Awesome to have nesting birds..🥰🥰🥰 ihave a brown trasher with 3 babies outside my window 🥰 ..put ahummingbird bird feeder ..they will come 🕊
My parents used to live in Largo and first year I planted a Coral Honeysuckle the Ruby-throated showed up. Past 4 years in St Pete I have done mostly native planting in my yard and specifically had hummingbirds in mind. Coral honeysuckle, Cross vine, Firebush, Red salvia and 2 of my non-native plants were specific for hummingbirds. Shrimp and Firecracker plant. Zero hummingbirds. Lol.
Mix foliage texture. Notice here how the designer contrasted the texture of the different foliage — the matte spikiness of the agave against the shiny gloss of the Laurustinus (Viburnum tinus).
Everything is looking so lovely!!! I love the color combo of the yellows with the blues and purples and occasional pink. I did laugh out loud when you said that you needed more milkweed! I’ve been saying that to myself every year since I first planted milkweed. That’s super exciting about your hummingbirds and cardinals and night herons. Such good and uplifting news!!! – I can’t wait to see what you got from Wilcox and Little Red Wagon! My dream is to take a truck and a trailer down there and load up on ALL my dream plants that I can’t find around here. Until then, I’m going to live vicariously through you! So excited to see your nursery adventures!!!!!!
I love that I can watch all the butterflies in the background of your videos 🥰.
Everthing is looking so great! I love all the wildlife flitting around behind you in the video.
Got a question about Lantana: Do you consider it invasive, or do you keep it? We have some growing wild in our yard after I removed a ton of Bitter Gourd. It's sooooo pretty, but I don't want it taking over.
I just discovered your channel! THANK YOU!!! So much!!! I've been trying to grow food here as if I still lived in Colorado & I kept failing. Also, HIGHLY appreciate the growing calendar!!! THANK YOU!!!
I love your garden and love how you’re making your garden a habitat for so many different types of animals and beneficial insects.
Which black eyed Susan is it?
COOL! Any native Carpets?
Oh the blanket…
Those look like cone flowers??
I wish I lived next door to you like Mr.Cliff, that would be so awesome! Have you got the Dutchmans pipevine yet? I had some pipevine swallowtails visit the vine for some laying! Such fascinating creatures, they lay in like large quantity clutches.
Humming birds songs are soooo beautiful.
A gardener mentioned to me once that natives don't like mulch. I think pine mulch works best for natives 😊
Cool garden with many native 🙂
Your wildflowers are beautiful!!! I may need to take another trip down to Wilcox … thanks for the great ideas and inspiration!!!
How do you deal with the humid rainy season in Florida? I've tried all those plants and they die off in the summer.
Hello we're in Hallandale Beach that is in south Fla.what plants can we plant for the butterfly?
I thought you were going to pull the Goldenrod! They are so invasive here but yet I grow sweet potato vines! Everything is just beautiful.
It would be great if someone inboxed me now
I have a large butterfly garden in the backyard and am expanding to the front next week I live in northwest Hillsborough. I had nesting bluebirds this year and have had quite a few ruby throated hummingbirds. They are attracted to my coral honeysuckle, the firebushes, the coral bean plants and the pink porterweed. The butterflies always visit the dwarf red porterweed but it's cold sensitive and I don't think it's native. I too visit Wilcox and Little Red Wagon. I always enjoy your butterfly and wild native plant videos.
Are most of your neighbors planting natives?
So many beautiful flowers 😍😍 and what a treat to have Hummingbirds!! I have seen a hummingbird just once in my life when I was travelling through northern Michigan 13 years ago! It was so magical and I'll never forget it. Are those Eucalyptus trees in the background? Always a surprise to see them in the US. Ever see any Koala's up there? 😉 🐨
What fertilizer do you use and how often do you fertilize ? Your flowers are beautiful 😍. Thank you
Very nice what you did on your front yard. Great ideas for native plants. Congratulations on attracting hummingbirds.
Thank you for sharing this video. I’ve planted wildflowers for the first time ever this year. Im trying to create a small wild flower oasis in my backyard. I’ve been making videos on my channel to document it’s growth. I just can’t wait to see them bloom. Thanks for your useful hints and tips. I’ve learned something new from you. I hope we can learn more from each other! Happy Growing!
Really like your videos. Trying gardening for the first time, and you are very inspirational. Thanks
i so want my my yard to look like this.
can i plant all this in my sandy soil?
So all of my black eyed susans now have powdery mildew. Which happens every year. How about you?
I am so excited to find you! I also have had the fun of finally seeing hummingbirds in our huge butterfly garden. And also cardinals. I also live in Pinellas County ( Palm Harbor). Do you know about the Pollinator Pathway that is happening in Safety Harbor? You can find out about it at Folly Farms in Safety Harbor. Patty Fitts
Classic native wild flower W
I didn't know you live in St. Pete! That's where I am too. So happy to see someone successfully growing in the same area. I'm gonna be starting a front yard garden and doing a wildflower/pollinator garden, so I have been devouring your videos. <3
I love blackeyed susans! That coral honeysuckle is gorgeous! And the blue morning glory does go well with it. I like how you put lights in your trellis.
Its so prettty!!!! Thank you for showing it to us:-)
How much did you spend on all the plants?
What do you feed your lawn with . I dot want to say fertilizer. Nothing will grow in my yard 😢
It sounds very counter intuitive buttttt your soil is way too fertile wildflowers usually thrive is kind of dry and crappy soil let it dry out a little bit
I think some grasses might help with the spacing, the thin foliage won't shade out the forbes (flowers) as much and will fill between them. Of course you do want a greater portion of forbes to begin with than grasses. But I speak as one who's used to working with midwestern prarie species. Still I think the principle is similar.
Two months later though? They are beautiful but I feel it is personal from seed.
You should really try to grow some double giant zinnias, I’m in south Florida and I sown them in February/March, and the blooms are still blooming and it’s august, the bees love them and they grow soooo easy and beautiful you never know what different color you’ll get and the flower heads give you so many seeds
Hi
Do you recommend the wild petunia for the butterfly garden?