
Tropical Landscape Design
Recommended Plants

Canary Palm
Palms
Phoenix Canariensis has been utilized as a theme generating focal point in landscapes worldwide for decades.

Card Board Palm
Palms
Cycad is salt resistant and can be used in beachside plantings. Also makes a great container plant for the patio or deck.

Carissa
Shrubs
Natal plum prefers a sandy, well-drained soil. It responds well to close pruning and is easily kept at any size.

Carissa Holly
Shrubs
Commonly used as a low growing hedge or foreground planting, and requires no maintenance at all in terms of trimming /…

Carolina Jasmine
Shrubs
Carolina Jasmine will rapidly cover arbors, tree trunks, trellises, etc. in a season or two.

Cassia
Shrubs
Cassia can be a delight in the fall landscape because it is covered with cheerful yellow flowers when few other plants are blooming.

Cast Iron
Grasses
Aptly named 'cast-iron plant' for its seeming ability to last forever in the most adverse conditions…

Chickasaw Plum
Trees
Chickasaw Plum forms a rounded mass of slender, thorny branches sprouting from a short trunk.

Chinese Fan Palm
Palms
These make for slow-growing, but striking landscape specimens. The Chinese Fan Palm is tolerant of poor soils…

Chinese Fan Palm with Greenery Cut
Specimens
Chinese Fan Palm with Greenery Cut

Chocolate Mimosa Tree
Trees
This fast growing, deciduous tree has a wide, umbrella shaped canopy with beautiful bronze-green…

Coconut Palm
Palms
Nothing could be finer than a coconut palm. No other palm says "tropical" like the coconut and few can be argued as more beautiful.

Confederate Jasmine
Shrubs
Use Confederate jasmine to cover fences and pergolas or to clamber up tree trunks.

Confederate Jasmine Variegated
Shrubs
Use Confederate jasmine to cover fences and pergolas or to clamber up tree trunks.

Conversation Azalea
Shrubs
Evergreen azalea with large, multi-colored and splotched flowers of rose, pink, white and red. Flowers have light throats.

Coontie Palm
Palms
Coontie is perfect for woodland and shady gardens where it provides rich evergreen backdrop for flowering species all year long.

Copperleaf
Shrubs
You can use it in mixed hedges or alone; in either case, it will be a striking addition to your garden.

Crape Myrtle
Trees
Crape myrtle (Lagerstroemia species) has become a dominant landscape plant in north and central Florida and throughout the south.

Crape Myrtle - Pink Velour
Accents
Pink Velour Crape Myrtles are perfect as impressive ornamental trees or colorful, living privacy screens.

Crinum Lilly
Accents
Large perennial herb with tunicate bulbs, often with long necks, stalkless, often clump forming. A very fast growing plant accent.

Crotons
Shrubs
Crotons are a small shrub and can reach a height of 5-6 feet. The leaves are leathery and start out green and gradually…

Crown of Thorns
Shrubs
The Crown of Thorns plant is a woody, spiny, climbing succulent shrub.

Curved Queen Palms
Specimens
Curved Queen Palms

Curved Ribbons
Specimens
Curved Ribbons