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VillageWalk’s Approved Plant List November 24, 2010

Adonida Palm (Christmas Palm) This tree grows 15 to 20 feet and grows well in some shade to full sun.

Alamanda Bush This bush grows 3 to 6 feet tall and works well as a mass planting. This shrub will grow

well with some shade to full sun.

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American Holly Tree This is a pyramidal shaped tree that produces red berries and will grow to around 40 feet.

This tree does best in full sun.

Green Arboricola (Dwarf Schefflera) This shrub works well in a mass planting or as a hedge. It grows

3 to 6 feet in shade to full sun and is easily maintained at any height.

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Variegated Arboricola This shrub works well as a mass planting or as a hedge. It grows 3 to 6 feet in shade to

full sun and is easily maintained at any height. It also offers nice color all year.

Awabuki Vibrnum This shrub works best as a large hedge in a more open setting.

It can get very tall and wide and grows well in partial shade to full sun.

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Bald Cypress This tree grows to 70 feet tall and it is deciduous. It does best

planted near water and requires full sun.

Blue Rug Juniper

This hardy shrub spreads 3 feet or more and grows to 6 inches tall. It grows in partial shade to full sun and works well as a border plant.

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Bottlebrush Bush This shrub works as a hedge or individually. Maintainable from 3 to 6 feet, attracts birds

and butterflies and does best in full sun.

Bottlebrush Tree

This tree likes moist soil and is also drought tolerant. Grows to 15 feet in height blooms red bottlebrush like flowers from late winter through mid summer and is an evergreen.

This tree also attracts birds and butterflies.

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Cape Honeysuckle

This shrub works as a mass planting or can be groomed into a hedge. It can reach heights

of 8 feet tall but works best if kept pruned. It blooms deep orange mostly through fall, winter and early spring. It needs very little water after it is established and grows well in

partial shade to full sun.

Cardboard Palm

This plant works well as a specimen plant among smaller plantings. It can reach a size of 6 feet wide by 4 feet tall. It works well in sun or shade.

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Cocoplum

This is a medium sized shrub and can be easily trained into a hedge. The leaf colors range from dark and light greens to a purplish red.

Coontie

This works well as an accent plant with its stiff, feathery fronds reaching about 3 feet in length. It is a native plant and need very little water after it is established.

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Pink Crape Myrtle Bush

White Crape Myrtle

Crape Myrtle is available in bush and tree form. It is also available in many colors such as white, purples, reds and pinks. It blooms throughout the summer months but then goes

dormant and is not very attractive for 4 to 6 months through fall and winter.

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Creeping Fig

This is a great climbing plant or a thick ground cover. It likes moist soil, full sun and is an evergreen.

Crinum Lily

This is a very fast grower to about 5 feet. It grows from a bulb and does require regular watering. This plant does best in full sun to partial shade and is also with reddish green

leaves called Queen Emma.

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Croton Mamey

This is a very showy bush offering brilliant, bright color throughout the year. It can reach 4 feet in height and does best in full sun and well drained soil.

Croton Petra This is a very colorful bush throughout the year. It is much like the Croton Mamey but

has a wider leaf and requires more shade.

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Crown of Thorns

This plant works well as a border plant or mass planting. It blooms all year and reaches about 1 to 2 feet in height and also spreads. This plant is very thorny.

Downy Jasmine

This is a fast growing shrub usually mounding with long weeping vine like branches. It is an evergreen and blooms most of the year with clusters of small white star shaped

flowers. It can easily be kept in a more uniformed shape with trimming and is somewhat drought tolerant.

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Multi Colored Dracaena This is a slow growing plant but can reach 15 feet in height. It has colorful, narrow leaves

that are green with red edges. It does best in filtered sun.

Dwarf Red Ixora This is a very compact shrub that works well in mass plantings or as a low hedge. It has small green leaves and blooms most of the year. It blooms profusely in the spring into

summer.

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Dwarf Yellow Ixora This is a very compact shrub that works well in mass plantings or as a low hedge. It has

small green leaves and blooms most of the year.

Dwarf Podocarpus This shrub has dark green foliage and responds well to pruning. It is easily maintained into a low hedge, foundation planting or a mass bed. It does well in full sun or shade.

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East Palatka Holly This Holly tree is low maintenance and is easily kept in a pyramidal shape. It blooms

small white flowers in late spring and produces decorative red berries. It is an evergreen with dark green leaves and grows to 30 feet tall. It does best in full sun to some shade.

Eleagnus Silverthorn

This is a huge sprawling shrub and can reach 15 feet in height. It is a very fast grower that works well as a hedge and is an evergreen. The under side of the leaves are a silver

gray color. It grows in full sun to partial shade.

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Eugenia Hedge

This shrub makes a great hedge. It grows fairly quickly and can be maintained at any height. It is a thick evergreen and does best in full sun. On the downside, it does begin to

die out after about 7 years.

European Fan Palm

This small tree works great as an understory planting of taller trees. It does well in either full or partial sun. It is a perfect accent planting and it is drought tolerant, cold hardy and

low maintenance. Typical height is around 5’ but can reach 15 feet.

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Fakahatchee Grass This native grass can be found as far north as Ohio. It does well in full sun or shade. It

grows to 5 feet and stays very bushy. It does best in moist soil and typically is used around marshy damp areas.

Firebush This is a native shrub and a fast grower. It blooms most of the year with red and orange

tubular flowers. It works as a mass planting or as a maintained hedge in full sun to partial shade. This shrub will go dormant in very cold weather but usually recovers very well.

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Firecracker Bush This unique bush got its name because of how it blooms. Its red showy flowers resemble

firecrackers exploding. This plant requires a mostly sunny location and blooms from spring through fall.

Flax Lily This plant works best as a border planting and the leaves are green with white outlines. It

does bloom a dark blue to purplish color but is almost insignificant. Plan on using this plant for its leaf color. It grows to about 2 feet tall.

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Red Fountain Grass This grassy plant grows to about 3 feet tall and is very showy with its burgundy colored

foliage. It does best in full sun with well drained soil.

Foxtail Palm (1,2 or 3 trunks)

This is a beautiful single or multi stem palm tree. It has bushy fronds and grows to around 25 feet tall.

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Golden Dew Drop This attractive tree grows to 15 feet tall but is easily kept under control by pruning. It blooms blueish purple clusters of flowers and bares golden clusters of grape like fruit.

The birds and butterflies love this tree. This tree needs full sun to partial shade.

Helen-Johnson Bougainvillea This is the only true dwarf Bougainvillea. It’s compact in size and offer beautiful color

for the landscape. It needs mostly sun and well drained soil. This grows to about 2 feet in height.

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Hibiscus Tree This tree blooms almost daily and reaches about 6 to 8 feet tall. It prefers moist well

drained soil. Unexpected cold snaps will defoliate this tree quickly but usually recovers pretty well.

Holly Fern This is a nice dark green ground cover. It need full to mostly shade and needs to stay

moist. This plant grows to about 2 feet tall.

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Ilex Schillings This shrub grows in full sun to partial shade and works very well as a mass planting, edging or border plant. This is a mounding plant that spreads through shoots from the

roots. This is a very hardy evergreen.

Indian Hawthorn This is a very mounding evergreen shrub. It flowers in the spring with small white to pale

pink bloom. This very compact plant likes full sun to partial shade and works well as mass planting, border planting or edging and is easily maintained at about 2 feet in

height.

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Ixora Maui This bush blooms all year with a reddish orange cluster. The leaves are a bronze-green

color which adds nice texture to the landscape. This plant does require additional fertilizer for best results. This bush can reach a height of 3 feet. This is also available in

yellow.

Jatropha Bush This bush blooms very dark red almost all year. It can reach heights of 6 feet but is best

to keep cut back so it stays bushier. It grows in full sun to light shade.

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Jatropha Tree This tree blooms very dark red almost all year. This tree is easily maintained and grows

in full sun to light shade.

Ligustrum Hedge This shrub has a very dark green leaf and works great as a hedge. It can get very large but

is easily maintained at 6 feet. This shrub does best in full sun to partial shade. It does flower in the spring but it is not very showy.

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Ligustrum Tree This tree works great as a large, ball topiary or can be maintained with a more natural

umbrella type canopy. This is an evergreen that blooms small white flowers in the spring.

Live Oak Tree This is a Florida native tree. It gets huge reaching heights of 60 feet and a canopy width

of 60 feet. This tree has been know to live for 300 years and adapts well to most soil conditions. It is semi deciduous and drops it leaves in the spring.

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Loropetalum This is a very colorful bush that works well as a specimen plant or as a foundation

planting. It is very low maintenance but it does need rich well drained soil.

Magnolia (DD Blanchard)

This tree has a compact and pyramidal growth habit and is an evergreen. It blooms a large creamy white flower and is very fragrant. The leaves are a very shiny green on top

and the bottoms are almost a rusty color. This tree can reach heights of 50 feet.

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Magnolia (Little Gem Dwarf)

This tree works well in tight spaces that need a little height. It is an evergreen with shiny green leaves on top with a rusty color underside. It blooms a creamy white flower from mid summer through late fall. It is a low maintenance tree that can reach up to 20 feet

tall.

Macho Fern This fern gets very big. It reaches to 4 feet tall and spreads. It is one of the few ferns that

will grow well in sun to partial shade.

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Muhly Grass This beautiful grass plant blooms pinkish purple through late summer and fall.

It can reach heights of 4 feet and likes a dry to moist well drained soil.

Oleander Tree This evergreen tree is spectacular in full bloom. They are available in pinks, purple, white and red. This tree will reach heights of 20 feet and is easily maintained with 1 heavy cut

back per year.

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Orange Bird of Paradise This specimen plant has one of the most beautiful blooms you will ever see. It does

require extra fertilizer through spring and summer and likes more sandy soils. Please note: this plant can take up to 10 years to get it first bloom.

Pampas Grass This is a very large clump grass that bloom huge plumes from late summer through fall.

It is drought tolerant and likes well drained soil.

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Parsoni Juniper This is a ground hugging evergreen conifer that does very well in full sun. It will do well in shade but will not stay as thick and full. It prefers more acidic soils and is very drought

tolerant.

Petite Oleander This plant has very showy long lasting flowers. It stays fairly compact and is easily

maintained at about any size. It can reach 8 feet in height if left go. It is drought tolerant but will do fine in moist to dry soils.

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Philodendron Seloum This grows to be a very large plant. It can reach heights to 20 feet and spread 8 to 10 feet.

It has dark green, shinny, large leaves. It does well in full sun but will adapt for full shade. This plant is best used to absorb excess water in the landscape.

Philodendron Xanadu This is more of a dwarf type plant that usually grows 2 1/2 feet round. This plant does

best in shade to some sun. It has rich green leaves and lives to about 30 years.

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Pigmy Date Palm

This is the most widely used palm in the Florida landscape today. This slow growing palm is available in single or multiple trunks and is very low maintenance. This is a

perfect understory tree and is drought tolerant.

Plumbago

This is a very attractive bush with beautiful light blue flowers when it blooms. This plant does not like much water which causes it to look brown and unhealthy. In the right place

it is gorgeous and grows to about 6 feet by 6 feet.

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Podocarpus

This is a dark green ‘pine like’ plant. It works great as a hedge for screening and can get very tall. It is somewhat of a fast grower and responds well to pruning and stays very full.

It likes a well drained soil.

Powder Puff This is a very attractive shrub in mass plantings. It blooms profusely of deep pink to red puffy flowers. It is easily maintained at any height but can reach 15 feet. This bush will attract Honey bees so be careful of where it’s used. It likes a well drained moist soil but

will adapt to about any soil condition.

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Wild Petunia Purple Shower This is a grassy type plant that never quits blooming little purple flowers. It reaches about 3 feet tall and spreads through its roots. It works best as mass plantings and like wet soil.

Queen Palms This is a very popular palm in the Florida landscape. It can reach heights to 50 feet and

its leaves grow 4 to 8 feet in length. This palm prefers a well drained soil and is a medium to fast grower.

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Red Crinum Lily “Queen Emma” This is a very attractive focal point plant that offers plenty of color though its leaves. It

does a few large lacy flowers usually though the drier periods of the year. It likes full sun to some shade and well drained soil.

Sable Palm This palm is the state tree for Florida and South Carolina. It can reach heights of 60 feet or so. It adapts well to a variety of climates and can survive very cold temperatures and

extreme heat and is drought tolerant. This trees leaves grow to about 6 feet long it blooms a long stem of yellowish flowers which produce a black fruit.

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Simpson’s Stopper This shrub can grow in nutrient poor moist soils. It can reach heights to 20 feet but is

easily maintained from 3 to 6 feet. It produces orange berries that attracts birds and is a native shrub.

Variegated Ginger This is an attractive upright growing plant that works well as an accent planting. It can

reach about 8 feet tall but the taller stalks can easily be cut out. It prefers shade to partial sun.

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Variegated Pittosporum This is attractive shrub due to its white and green leaves. It is a fast grower when it is

young but slows down as it matures. It does require regular pruning and works well as a mass planting or hedge. It likes partial shade and partial sun.

Sweet Viburnum This shrub makes a very dense dark green hedge. It can be managed at any height and

responds well to pruning. It likes average to moist soil and will wilt quickly if it get too dry but it does recover very fast.

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Viburnum Suspensum This shrub grows much like the Sweet Viburnum but has a more compact leaf. It works

very well as a hedge 6 to 12 feet tall. It does best in full sun to some shade.

Walter’s Viburnum This shrub works well as a mass planting or can be left grow into a hedge. It is a slow growing evergreen with very small leaves. It blooms late spring to early summer for a

very short time but it almost looks like a snowball in full bloom.

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Washingtonia Palm This palm gets very tall and can reach heights of 100 feet or more. It likes a well drained rich soil but adapts well to poor soil conditions too. The leaves get about 5 feet long and

4 feet wide. This tree likes full sun and will tolerate some shade.

Wax Myrtle This unique evergreen is a native and can be pruned into a hedge, mass planting or left

grow into a tree. It survives a wide variety of soils from salt to marshy areas and dry land. It is a fast grower and does well in full sun or shade.

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Weeping Hibiscus This works great as an accent planting or focal point. This tree blooms continuously and has a delicate look about it due the limbs weeping. It will defoliate quickly with sudden

cold snaps but will usually recover well. It likes well drained soil.

Weeping Yaupon Holly This is a beautiful erect growing tree with downward swept branches and it adds a lot of interest to the landscape. It a very hardy tree moderately fast grower to 15 feet or so and

is an evergreen.

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White Bird of Paradise This very tropical looking plant grows 12 to 15 feet tall. It likes full sun to some shade average watering but not wet. It blooms large white purple flowers from late winter to

late spring and attracts birds and butterflies.