Plantings: Tropical’s
View our Tropical planting library below. Discuss your design options with your landscape designer to create your dream layout. Please contact us with any questions you may have.
✾ This indicates that a plant blooms for 6 weeks or longer
✓ This indicates that the plant is listed as Resistant/Tolerant to Deer
Agapanthus

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Characteristics: Flowers bloom in large round clusters of umbels of blue, white or violet blue. Funnel shaped flowers grow at the end of a thick 2’-4’ tall stem. Blooms late spring to the beginning of autumn.
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Light: Full Sun
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Moisture: Well drained soils, normal watering
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Plant: Great for containers, bring indoors over winter
Caladium Bicolor

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Characteristics: Colored leaves 12” in length and 6” wide, leaves form a clump. Dozens of variegated forms exist in shades of green, white, pinks and reds. Grows 1’-2’ tall, leaf apex points downwards, blooms till September.
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Light: Part shade to part sun
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Moisture: Well drained moist soils, normal watering
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Plant: Use in containers, beds and borders
Canna X Generalis

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Characteristics: Foliage is large tropical paddle like 18”-24” in length, produces 3” diameter flowers with layers of petals in many ranges of colors, height is 4’-7’ tall. Has 4 flowers per plant, blooms May until frost Varieties include ‘Bengal Tiger’, ‘Tropicana’ and ‘Premium’.
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Light: Full sun to part shade
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Moisture: Moist to boggy soils, normal watering
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Plant: Great for containers, store rhizome in cool place over winter
Colocasia Esculanta – Elephant Ears

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Characteristics: Large 3-pointed arrow or heart shaped leaf’s, pointing down 2’-3’ in length. Blooms May until frost, comes in a variety of colors some with multiple colors on one plant. Varieties include ‘Black Magic’ and ‘Illustris’.
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Light: Full sun to part shade
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Moisture: Medium to wet soils, normal watering
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Plant: Remove yellow older leaves, great for containers
Cordyline Australis ‘Red Sensation’

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Characteristics: Long tropical spear like upright leaves up to 36” in length, deep burgundy color. Bloom from May to late October.
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Light: Full sun to part shade
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Moisture: Well drained soils, normal watering
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Plant: Great for center of containers, and specimens
Gardenia Augusta

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Characteristics: Dark to bright green, opposite leaves on a shrub that can grow 6’-8’ tall. Blooms mid-spring to early summer flowers are white, turning to creamy yellow and have a waxy feel, sweet fragrance
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Light: Part shade to full sun
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Moisture: Well drained moist soil, normal watering
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Plant: Specimen shrub in container
Hibiscus Rosa Sinensis

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Characteristics: Flowers are glorious and huge up to 6″ in diameter and occur in many colors. Most are flared and have a bell shape single or double, smooth or scalloped. Leaves are large, dark green, and shiny grows up to 15’ tall.
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Light: Full sun to part shade
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Moisture: Well drained moist soil, normal watering
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Plant: Use in containers, bring in over winter
Mandevilla X Amoena

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Characteristics: Flowers bloom in large round clusters of umbels of blue, white or violet blue. Funnel shaped flowers grow at the end of a thick 2’-4’ tall stem. Blooms late spring to the beginning of autumn.
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Light: Full sun
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Moisture: Well drained soils, normal watering
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Plant: Great for containers, bring indoors over winter
Strobilanthus Dyerianus – Persian Shield

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Characteristics: Variegated dark green and silvery-metallic purplish-pink leaves on top and all purple underneath, with serrated edges. Soft stems grow 3’-4’ tall.
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Light: Morning full sun to afternoon partial shade
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Moisture: Rich well drained moist soil, normal watering
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Plant: Great in containers and in beds.
Tradescantia Pallida – Purple Heart

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Characteristics: Sprawling groundcover 3”-5” tall plant with succulent stems and pointed leaves. Surfaces of the leaves are a deep royal purple underside is an even more vivid violet. Three-petaled flowers emerge from curving double bracts at the stem tips. Blooms constantly during warm weather, but the flowers are open only in the morning.
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Light: Full sun to part shade
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Moisture: Rich sandy soils, prefers ample water but is drought tolerant
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Plant: Use in beds, rock gardens and containers