Plant Selection & Landscape Design - Southwest Florida Water ...
Plant Selection & Landscape Design - Southwest Florida Water ... Plant Selection & Landscape Design - Southwest Florida Water ...
PRINCIPLE #8: MANAGE STORMWATER RUNOFF A Florida-Friendly Landscape uses porous pavers, rain barrels or cisterns, rain gardens, and swales and berms to keep rainwater on site and allow it to percolate into the ground or be captured for later use. Reducing the amount of runoff and the chance for rainwater to wash quickly into storm drains—carrying yard clippings, fertilizer, pesticide, dirt, oil, and other toxins—is the goal of managing stormwater runoff. PRINCIPLE #9: PROTECT THE WATERFRONT Implementing Florida-Friendly Landscaping design and maintenance methods helps protect water bodies from pollution. If you live on a lake, bay, river, or other water body, keep fertilizers, pesticides, and other toxins away from the water by preserving a 10-foot maintenance-free zone between your landscape and the water. Do not mow, fertilize, or apply pesticides in that area. Even if you do not live immediately on the waterfront, the pesticides and fertilizers you apply in your landscape affect the health of local water bodies through a drainage system called the watershed. The choices you make at home have much farther-reaching consequences than you might imagine. 4 FLORIDA-FRIENDLY LANDSCAPING TM GUIDE TO PLANT SELECTION AND LANDSCAPE DESIGN • 2010
Designing Your Florida-Friendly Landscape Florida-Friendly Landscapes are all based on the same nine principles. But Florida-Friendly Landscaping encourages individual expression of beauty. As long as you apply the principles described in The Florida Yards & Neighborhoods Handbook, your landscape can be Florida- Friendly and as individual as you want. WHAT IF I LIVE IN A PLANNED COMMUNITY? Check with your homeowner association before you make changes to your landscape. HOAs, usually have a landscape review board and can regulate the appearance and types of plantings in your yard, as long as they do not prohibit you from installing and maintaining Florida- Friendly Landscapes. If you live in a community with codes, covenants and restrictions that could be more Florida-Friendly, encourage your association to adopt all or part of the model Florida-Friendly Landscaping restrictions, found at http://fyn.ifas.ufl.edu/. The Florida-Friendly Landscaping Program has a number of “success stories” which highlight water and costs savings for communities that adopt Florida-Friendly Landscaping and maintenance practices. Visit the Web site at http://fyn.ifas.ufl.edu/. DESIGN SCENARIOS The following eight design scenarios represent select areas of your home landscape—front entry, under windows, utility boxes, etc. Each of these scenarios was chosen because of common landscape design issues that confront a homeowner in these areas. In each scenario, you will be shown a challenging landscape situation and learn what could be done to design a solution in a more Florida-Friendly manner. Be aware that the graphics show the improved landscapes at an early stage after plant installation. The plants will grow and eventually fill in more of the mulched area. A Florida-Friendly Landscaping TM Publication 5
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- Page 3 and 4: INTRODUCTION: What Is a Florida-Fri
- Page 5: The Nine Florida-Friendly Landscapi
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- Page 13 and 14: SOLUTION 1 SOLUTION 2 Turf Buffer S
- Page 15 and 16: SOLUTION 1 SOLUTION 2 No Screening
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- Page 19 and 20: SOLUTION 1 SOLUTION 2 Open Canopy D
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- Page 23 and 24: Converting Your Yard to a Florida-F
- Page 25 and 26: Ecological Considerations Florida-F
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- Page 29 and 30: 6. Create a landscape plan. Your la
- Page 31 and 32: Florida-Friendly Plant List The pla
- Page 33 and 34: KEY TO SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS FL
- Page 35 and 36: LARGE TREES Fraxinus americana Whit
- Page 37 and 38: LARGE TREES Pinus elliottii var. el
- Page 39 and 40: LARGE TREES Taxodium spp. Pond Cypr
- Page 41 and 42: MEDIUM TREES Coccoloba diversifolia
- Page 43 and 44: MEDIUM TREES Persea palustris Swamp
- Page 45 and 46: SMALL TREES Callistemon spp. Bottle
- Page 47 and 48: SMALL TREES Dodonaea viscosa Hopbus
- Page 49 and 50: SMALL TREES Myrcianthes fragrans Si
- Page 51 and 52: SMALL TREES Tabebuia aurea Silver T
- Page 53 and 54: LARGE SHRUBS Aloysia virgata Sweet
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PRINCIPLE #8: MANAGE STORMWATER RUNOFF<br />
A <strong>Florida</strong>-Friendly <strong>Landscape</strong> uses porous pavers, rain<br />
barrels or cisterns, rain gardens, and swales and berms to<br />
keep rainwater on site and allow it to percolate into the<br />
ground or be captured for later use. Reducing the amount<br />
of runoff and the chance for rainwater to wash quickly<br />
into storm drains—carrying yard clippings, fertilizer, pesticide,<br />
dirt, oil, and other toxins—is the goal of managing<br />
stormwater runoff.<br />
PRINCIPLE #9: PROTECT THE WATERFRONT<br />
Implementing <strong>Florida</strong>-Friendly Landscaping design and<br />
maintenance methods helps protect water bodies from pollution.<br />
If you live on a lake, bay, river, or other water<br />
body, keep fertilizers, pesticides, and other toxins away<br />
from the water by preserving a 10-foot maintenance-free<br />
zone between your landscape and the water. Do not mow,<br />
fertilize, or apply pesticides in that area. Even if you do<br />
not live immediately on the waterfront, the pesticides and<br />
fertilizers you apply in your landscape affect the health of<br />
local water bodies through a drainage system called the<br />
watershed. The choices you make at home have much farther-reaching<br />
consequences than you might imagine.<br />
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FLORIDA-FRIENDLY LANDSCAPING TM GUIDE TO PLANT SELECTION AND LANDSCAPE DESIGN • 2010
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