loquat tree

Also known as the Japanese plum, the loquat is a small evergreen tree with a dense, rounded, dark green canopy.  It is a well-behaved little shade tree that grows moderately fast and reaches only 25 – 30 feet in shade with a 30 – 35 foot spread, but is often no taller than 15 feet…

foxtail palm

Available in single or multi-trunk specimens. Its smooth gray trunk is topped with a bright green crownshaft and big tufted fronds that resemble the bushy tail of a fox. Native to Australia. By Clau8a – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link   Classification Alternate names Latin name Wodyetia bifurcata Family Arecaceae (palm) Related species Cultivars…

candlestick senna

The first thing sustainability-minded people usually say about candlestick plant is, “Yay, it’s a host plant for sulphur butterflies to lay their eggs” (of which we in FL are blessed with species ranging from the tiniest sulphur species, the size of a fingernail, to a giant floating flower the size of a tiger swallowtail.) But…