GardenTour 8: Palms and Plants that make the prefect pool privacy buffer for any Florida landscape.

In this video, we will be doing a walking tour of some of the toughest Florida plants. Big Thank you to my client Dee, for allowing us to tour her beautiful backyard. If you’d like more information about us, I’ll list all of our contact information below.
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Hey you guys welcome back we are in Vero Beach again and we are in a backyard landscape buffer planting so I cannot wait to do this tour for you I think you’re really going to like it it has some of my favorite plants my tried and true tough Vero Beach Space Coast

Treasure Coast type of plant material that I love to use so I’m going to share with you and walk through the garden um all of the plant and tree choices that I chose for the area and I I um I hope that you like them but yeah so let’s um

Let’s walk through Bryce why don’t we get a good um kind of panoramic view of the backyard so we can see what we’re looking at or our friends can see what we’re looking at and so what we found when we first got here was a new construction of a a

Beautiful backdrop pool planting so this is what I would call a typical backyard size in buau beach and um my client D she was able to really really play with the pool design I love what they did I think this this clean line Serene pool turned out absolutely beautiful the only

Negative to it is that it’s your typical Florida pool you know it’s it’s that bright travertine with bright fencing and and just a lot of lot of light tiles and so when you look back here it it almost blinded you so I love that we were able to really soften that with

Some tropical landscape so this project was done last week and then all of this week we’ve had thunderstorms so you guys I’ll have to just bear with the damage that’s been done to these poor plants right after planting but they will bounce back they’re tough that’s why I

Want to share it with you because they are some of my tried and true tough plants and they’re going to just really really take over and do so so well in this landscape so I thought L let me share this with you guys and maybe this is something you can incorporate into

Your own yard so but sorry I don’t mean to be rude let me start by introducing myself for those of you guys who don’t know who I am my name is Jennifer bevans and I’m a landscape designer here in virau Beach Florida this is one of the backyard landscapes

That me and my crew have completed so we um we specialize in this kind of work so if you’re looking for something like this along the along the lines of a tropical layered landscape this is kind of your Vibe then give me a call because

I would love to meet with you kind of walk through your garden and see if this is something that we can do in your own space so but now for the tour let’s uh walk and talk plants and I’ll share with you what we did here so so let’s kind of

Start here Bryce at the very corner so again you guys I feel I feel like I should put a disclaimer in because the weather has been awful but it um that’s what these plants are made for they’re made to combat it so they’re going to do

That just fine so as usual I’m going to start in with the rear planting this rear planting back here are these beautiful Brazilian Red cloaks so in this particular lot this corner Dro down this level drop down so severely that you could absolutely see it from the

House line so what I wanted to do is bring in something that was really going to kind of give us a a big thick grouping and these will connect within a matter of months they’ll connect and they’ll become four foot taller so this area will be completely this color and

Green all the way through the corner and they’ll make the perfect backdrop for a low corner so they love water they love a little bit of wet feet hence why I put them in low spots so this nice low spot where the water will do a fantastic job of making these

Plants healthy and happy and um the only negative to these plants that I’ve ever noticed is the bottom two feet as they mature and become bigger become like this you know they become a little bit Woody so you’ll see the Trunks and all the beauty will be at the top of the

Plant so I really try to do my best in disguising those trunks by kind of creating um what I call a skirt so this is a skirt planting this is considered a grouped planting that will eventually completely cover the base now all this open mulch that you see here will

Absolutely disappear in a matter of months so this planting will connect to this planting and so on so each species will connect to each species and then you’ll notice I do a break and then that species will connect to that species and then a break and that’s kind of the the

Premise of my type of design I want to make sure that I keep it nice and low maintenance but also keep it tropical and layered and I really I really think this is going to do the trick um I can’t wait to to share this with you once

Everything grows in and becomes gorgeous so those to the back are Brazilian Red cloaks these in front of them sweeping as kind of a nice little apron in front of them are double Peach hibiscus and you’re going to keep these about four to five feet these six to 10 feet in the

Back so you can already see we have approximately a 10ft layer a 5ft layer and then it drops down to a 4ft layer with these dwarf fire bush now these DW dwar fire bush Bloom this I think a lot of people call it like a honeysuckle

Bloom but they are a native to Florida and they’re called a dwarf fire bush and they they bloom this Bloom 11 months out of the year so you almost always get this color I mean we’re in Fall now heavy fall and then we’re we’re still getting crazy crazy blooms so they bloom

So often and they’re just a nice medium kind of clustering plant so they’re going to do their job of doing clustering this whole corner right here will you will not see this mulch in between but when we’ve got a little bit of crazy I like to kind of start pairing

That down with something real real controlled so right down here I have dwarf kusia these are a very cool shiny cool little leaf plants and they’re going to want to connect to one another as kind of almost like a really tidy formal kind of boxwood looking hedge and

I know that a lot of people have a hard time thinking of boxwood with tropical but boxwood does a fantastic job of making tropical look tropical so if you can kind of create a clean line and then you can use the backing with big leaf kind of textured material then you have

Such a fantastic mix and you and you can do that in such a small space you don’t need Acres you don’t need you don’t even need 40 or 30 feet you can use something along the lines of what we have here which is approximately 9 to 10 foot of

Space and create multiple layers within that space so you know definitely do that anytime you get near a sidewalk I love the idea of cre creating a very polished look that way it allows me to get a little crazy and fun with the the rear of the planting so so in this case

We’ve got the kusia the clusia Run almost the total distance along the walkway you’ll see the pickup further back down there which really do a nice job there’s a little bit of a separate uh grouping of sesia and the middle just to give us a little bit of fun behind

The um the jacuzzi area but back to this spot here we have the kusia and then we have these foxtail ferns which I you guys you cannot get any different than these leaves versus these leaves I mean they’re so different they’re so fun and when they mature out together you’ve got

Polish against I don’t know crazy fuzzy I don’t know what you would call these but they’re just I don’t know they’re upright and they’re so fun and they they just play so well together so I love incorporating them into a bed so they’re going to max out about 2 and 1/2 to 3ot

Tall and no bigger than that they’re really going to keep a nice compact um height to them and then these guys to the front are going to max out at two foot tall so you’ve always got a fine a nice Define border to the back and you

Don’t need many of these now this is a very shallow back bed so what I used here is um the dwarf alas or dwarf elephant ear and they do a very very nice job of kind of filling in behind a palm tree or when I’m trying to

Camouflage a fence they do a great great job of that and I don’t want to completely ignore the Traveler’s Palm but unfortunately this poor guy has been beat up from the wind these young Travelers Palms we put it in last week and then the wind came all this week so

It’s going to be beat up but it will stand up firm beautiful and be gorgeous once it um once it roots in and then if you’ve not been a stranger at all to my channel you know that I love Pym aom yes I know they have a thorn here and

There for trimming but I can’t think of a tree that does a better job of really giving you a big clustering of fronds now do you need to trim these absolutely I trim mine once a year but they are the perfect level two trees these trees

Right here will give you more frond than they’ll ever give you trunk which is so rare in a Florida landscape that I think they’re worth it so as this tree matures it’ll mature into a 10 to 12 foot height um um and then once it’s 10 to 12 foot

You’re going to you’re looking at maybe a three to four foot of that wood trunk and when you’re at a three to four foot wood trunk you’re really you’re really getting very a very very heavy frond canopy with that so if you put plant material underneath that

That’s going to get three foot tall then you go right from that color of that plant material right to almost the first FR and then you get FR cover and that you that you guys is where where the layers is come into play that’s where you start seeing those

Steps in a garden and you and and it’s easy to maintain that way because you know that you’ve picked the proper plant for the proper tree so these sesia will be gorgeous at 3 to four foot tall and they’ll fill in and they’ll be one solid

Grouping you see we’ve got just kind of a sweep of these right through this area and they’ll do such a nice job when they’re this tall and they’re solid in this area because you will not see a trunk on that it’ll go from that beautiful coloring all the way up to the

Canopies and the thickness and what makes what makes what what that ends up looking like is the white fence disappears you just all you really see is layer upon layer upon layer when you’re looking to this backdrop of this pool area and to me that’s what makes a

Resort style kind of garden and I cannot wait for that that to happen for my clients so it’s kind of a a rinse and repeat you kind of see this whole thing happen with I’ve got pyate p that kind of circle our centerpiece tree which is

The triangle fan palm which um I use every chance that I get I just think they’re gorgeous I love the variation in this Leaf color I love the silver tones that they offer I really do think that um they’re so Universal because you can put them where the flat side’s facing

Forward or you can put them just like this where the tail is facing you so the triangle fan palm is called the triangle fan palm because it has three flat sides this flat side here on each area you’ll see it’s called Madagascar fur and I just love the look

Of it I think it works so well and what I would say is a pretty much a green garden this um this silver coloring with that um that fur of that dark burgundy I just I just think it’s absolutely gorgeous so um they do such a nice job

Of that it might be hard to see because it’s such a new planting but Bryce if you’re able to get back there um where those Brazilian Red cloaks are so those are young Brazilian Red cloaks those of course will do the same as the ones on the corner max out above the

Fence line and give you that beautiful pink Bloom that they offer I absolutely love them they’ll do such a nice job of that and I may have forgotten to mention the coconut palms and you guys from Florida know coconut palms they’re a part of a landscape back here and if you

Have room for them in a pool landscape and can set them off back from a pool area they’re such fantastic trees to work with they grow fast they offer you big canopy spreads and whatever is behind them will pretty much disappear so we’ve got a big roof line back there

And we really wanted this area to really take off with coverage just like um just like you see that it’s starting to do here so now keep in mind these trees down here these pigment eight Palms will grow and take the spot of what these trees do so as these trees

Become 30 foot tall which absolutely they’re capable of doing this tree at that point will be 12T tall and most of that 12T height will be frond canopies so you almost always have a permanent buffer so when people say Palms are only good for so long not the case Palms are

Meant to layer you use your dwarf layers and then you layer up from there and then you put your beautiful big tree material that grows fast you put that in the back and then you let it you and you really get the benefits of Both Worlds you get immediate coverage and then you

Use that smaller material so as things grow up everything’s growing up to give you future coverage and that that’s just kind of the way a tropical landscape works so I cannot wait for de and her husband to really see this I can see this is going to be a backyard they’re

Going to enjoy and entertain in and why not you know it’s just going to be such a fun fun fun place to be so I cannot wait to get an updated video on this it’s just going to be it’s just going to be gorgeous to see it come to life so so

Um let me just finish this one little section off to the side here this is a king Alex Ander palom this poor guy’s been beat up this week but he will persevere just just like we have with this weather this week and um he is a

Lot of clear trunk on this tree they have a beautiful canopy to the top but they’re pretty much nothing but a slender trunk at the bottom now this is a self cleaning tree you see how this limb is getting ready to fall on it now

I can pull this limb if I wanted to um but it will also drop off so that way it’ll selfclean by itself which no nobody like myself loves a self-cleaning tree I I don’t know maybe you guys love it too but I absolutely love a self-cleaning tree King Alexander do

That for you and they’re an easy easy tree to deal with and they offer so much punch at the end of a planting bed considering that we have so much um clearance of trunk that left us with being able to go really big on the plant material down below now you’re probably

Wondering that these are not big I know these are not big but these guys grow so so so fast fast so we’ll blink and tomorrow they’ll be this tall so these guys round out these are dwarf fire bush they round out and become this height in

No time so this will be a nice four and a half five foot border here and it’s going to happen on the opposite side where the other King Alexander is too and they do such a nice job of just kind of completely grouping around hummingbirds love them butterflies love

Them birds love them just I think everybody loves them they’re such a great plant and they’re just a fantastic plant grouping the only people that I’ve seen that do not love these plants is when they put them next to a another plant and expect them to behave so this

Is a plant grouping that needs to be within this plant grouping and it’ll do so so well so because you can really keep this nice a nice tight grouping in this bed and then you’re going to separate it from this plant grouping when you do your trimming and that’s it

It’s just as easy as that so they’re definitely worth having and they’re definitely so easy to have so I definitely think that but um if you guys have the opportunity to use a native plant like a dwarf fire bush use it because they’re phenomenal and just all

Of your all of your nature will appreciate and approve of that type of planting so but yeah so this is a backyard tropical landscape buffer and I know we kind of ran through it but I really want to share it with you as soon

As we finish so that way you guys had a really good idea of what things look like when they’re initially planted they’re not jam-packed full but they are thought out so as long as you think about those layers and those tear then I’m telling you you’re really going to

Create that Tropical Oasis for your own backyard and that’s what I did in my own backyard so I’m hoping that that carries over if you guys are really interested in how to kind of create a um tiered landscape for yourself or you’re looking to kind of you know redo your front yard

Landscape and your diyers then check out my latest video because that video really shows kind of the steps the the recipe that I use when I create all of my designs really kind of I think it it kind of breaks it down and so it’s something that I so happy to share it

With you guys and and I hope it helps so if you do that please post some pictures I would love to see them and let me know how you guys like it but for this video I hope you guys liked it and I will see you in the next project tour that that

We do and uh yeah hope you liked it take care