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.

Flowering climbing plants that grow up a trellis can add stunning visual height to a garden landscape. The best flowers for a trellis bloom for a long time, and they grow on stems that have clinging tendrils or wrap around the trellis structure. Vining plants climbing a trellis also help cover walls, fences, and unsightly garden structures or help define borders on an outdoor space.

Privacy plants are an excellent choice for planting in a Florida garden. Shrubs and climbing plants with dense foliage provide a natural barrier for screening, increasing security and protecting your front or backyard. Whether you’re looking for evergreen shrubs or flowering vines, there are plenty of options available that will thrive in the Sunshine State. By providing a tall, natural screen around your yard, you can also keep out prying eyes. 

Planting shrubs and creeping plants along a fence line is ideal for covering a bare or unsightly fencing system. Fence landscaping ideas can include planting evergreen shrubs to hide the fence throughout the year. Or you can plant flowering shrubs to add color, fragrance, and greenery from spring through fall. Additionally, you can landscape along a fence using climbing plants to grow behind the foliage of other shrubs.

Climbing plants are an ideal landscaping solution to grow flowers and leafy foliage over walls, fences, and trellises. Plants with long stems that cling to structures by aerial roots, tendrils, or twisting around branches, wires, and poles can beautify a front or backyard. Many flowering plants with climbing habits add color and floral fragrances to enhance a garden landscape. Additionally, climbing plants are excellent for screening, privacy, and hiding ugly eyesores on your property.

Trellis plants are the perfect choice to boost the visual appeal of your garden landscape. Climbing plants and flowering vines add height, color, summer fragrances, stunning flowers, and leafy foliage to a trellis system. In addition, picking the right trellis plants can add a natural screen, privacy fence, or evergreen barrier to your backyard. And the beauty of plants that grow up trellises is that they generally require little—if any—maintenance.

Fast-growing vines are an ideal landscaping solution for adding color, greenery, floral scents, and height to your garden. Climbing plants that have rapid growth scramble over walls or chain link fences or climb over trellises, pergolas, and arbors. Fast-growing vines are also excellent for adding height to a garden landscape and removing harsh lines between foundation plantings, lawns, flower beds, and manufactured structures.