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Accent Plants
Cardboard Palm
Zamia furfuracea is a cycad native to Eastern Mexico. also called Cardboard Palm, Cardboard Sago, and Mexican Cycad.
The slow growing Zamia is not a palm, despite superficial growth similarities - the alternate name Cardboard Cycad is more exact.
Cattley Guava
Psidium cattleianum, commonly known as Cattley Guava. It is a small tree with red or yellow fruit, sometimes eaten or made into jam.
A multi-branched, evergreen shrub with features that make it popular for landscaping, its single white flowers look like miniature powderpuffs.
Christmas Palm
Adonidia merrillii, is more commonly called the Christmas Palm for its bright scarlet fruits that tend to develop in winter. The thin trunked Christmas palm has beautiful thick leaves, and hence care should be taken in placement due to potential wind damage.
Though typically fairly small and slender, Christmas palms normally grow 15-25 feet in height but can go even taller under perfect conditions.
Jatropha
Jatropha integerrima is a succulent plant, also known as Peregrina, Fire-Cracker and Physic Nut. Beautiful red clustered flowers are produced year-round.
Jatropha, aka Peregrina, will attract hummingbirds and butterflies to its delightful red flowers nearly year round, given full sun and good drainage.
Ligustrum
Ligustrum ovalifolium (Japanese privet) is frequently used as privacy hedging. This evergreen shrub is related to the olive and has many varieties in China.
The small, fragrant flowers create small purple to black fruits in clusters. Great accent plant.
Orange Bird of Paradise
Strelitzia reginae is related to bananas. Its unique orange and blue flowers are said to resemble a bright colored bird in flight.
Evergreen leaves that don't drop - great for poolside. Mature plants give up to 36 flower spikes yearly, lasting two weeks after cut.
White Bird of Paradise
Strelitzia nicolai, is also known as Wild Banana, a banana-like plant with erect woody stems and long grey-green fan like leaves.
The White Bird prefers rich, moist soils with good drainage in full sun to part shade. The blooms, which may take years, are worth the wait.
