Choosing the right plants for shade in South Florida can be challenging. Shade plants growing in USDA zone 10 must tolerate a tropical climate and survive on a few hours of sunshine or complete shade. Depending on your garden landscape, you may need shade-tolerant flowering shrubs, perennials, or low-growing plants that grow well in the shadows of structures, tall trees, or shrubs.

Stickers in grass are a type of annual weeds that can be a major nuisance in your lawn. Also called burweed, the pesky lawn weed with its sharp-needled seeds and clumps of sticky spines can cause pain if you step on them. The problem with getting rid of stickers in grass is that they germinate in fall and winter and lay dormant until spring. Then, when temperatures rise, the weedy flowering plant causes spiky patches to appear in your lawn.

Many types of beetles can be significant garden pests. So knowing how to get rid of beetles in the garden is crucial to protect your flowers, shrubs, ornamentals, lawn, and plants from beetle damage. Destructive garden beetles chew holes in leaves, feed on roots, and can kill plants. However, the good news is that there are many natural ways to keep beetles away from your yard.

The Mexican bean beetle is a small orange-brown winged insect that looks like an oval shaped ladybug with sixteen black spots arranged in three rows. The adult Mexican bean beetles measure 0.23” to 0.27” long (6 – 7 mm).

Yellow-flowering lawn weeds can make maintaining a beautiful garden challenging. The weedy plants with yellow flowers can affect the aesthetic beauty of your lush turfgrass. Also, with their invasive growth, the yellow weeds can drain the soil of nutrients and take over your beautiful green lawn. And it seems that certain yellow-flowering weeds have the uncanny ability to appear without warning after a rain shower.

Weeds with white flowers can spoil the appearance of a beautiful lawn. White-flowering lawn weeds seem to pop up from nowhere, causing a plethora of white spots and patches of thick weedy leaves to spoil your lawn’s appearance. And eradicating white lawn weeds can be challenging because the invasive plants easily spread via underground stems or seeds dispersed on the wind after blooming.

Purple weeds in grass can be a nuisance if you want to maintain a lush, green lawn. The pesky purple flowers in the turfgrass can detract from the beauty of your front or backyard lawn. And trying to get rid of broadleaf weeds with purple flowers can be challenging. It seems that as soon as you pull out the purple flower weeds from the grass, they emerge again a few weeks later. Also, some fast-spreading weeds seem to materialize as if from nowhere after rainfall.

Flowering and evergreen vines are ideal landscaping solutions for Florida gardens. Climbing plants with flowers or evergreen foliage can grow on trellises, over arbors and pergolas, or hide fences. Additionally, flowering plants with spreading stems can grow as ground cover, help screen a backyard, cascade over a wall, or look stunning in a hanging basket on a patio. Regardless of your landscaping goals, many types of vines are ideal for Florida landscapes.

Lawn weeds are pesky unwelcome plants that can destroy your lawn’s beautiful appearance. But getting a weed-free lawn can be challenging. Not all lawn weeds look alike. And some types of grassy weeds like crabgrass and nutsedge look like grass and are hard to identify. Other invasive broadleaf weeds in lawns can have purple or yellow flowers. Because stubborn weeds like creeping Charlie, dandelions, and oxalis have creeping roots, the unwanted plants can be hard to get rid of in a healthy lawn.

Native Florida plants are perfect for planting throughout the Sunshine State. Flowers, shrubs, vining plants, and trees native to Florida thrive in hot, humid conditions characteristic of this southeastern state. These native plants are ideal landscaping solutions whether you live south of Lake Okeechobee, in central Florida between Orlando and Tampa, or in northern Florida from Jacksonville to the Panhandle.