Your Guide to Florida Landscape Plants, Volume 2University of Florida Press, 1961 - Landscape gardening |
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acid Allamanda AVAILABILITY blossoms bracts branches bright broken shade capsules caterpillars clones clusters coarse in texture compact crape-myrtle CULTURE Cuttage dark green color Deciduous dense diameter drupes Evergreen evergreen leaves FAMILY fertile soil Florida FOLIAGE foundation plantings fragrant freestanding specimen FRUITS Full sun garden Greek green in color grows HABIT OF GROWTH HABITAT hammocks HEIGHT IDENTIFY Inconspicuous keep lawn grasses landscape plantings Leguminosae light green LIGHT REQUIREMENT marcottage mature MAXIMUM COLOR medium green color medium texture mites mulch mushroom root-rot nematodes northern nurseries in southern palm trees panicles partial shade peninsula PESTS petioles pods PROPAGATION pruning RELATIVES salt drift SALT TOLERANCE Scales SEASON OF MAXIMUM Seedage seedlings showy shrub shrubbery border small tree SOIL REQUIREMENT southern Florida species springtime stems sun for best texture and dark thrips Tolerant of salt trunk twigs TYPE OF PLANT upright varying soils vine Warm months water faithfully well-drained soil yellow