Bright+Beautiful Plant Design and Consulting

🌸Spring is here and so are the blossoms!🌸 The local cherry blossoms pictured below are quite lovely but why do we never get cherry fruit here in North Florida? It's because most cherries need a lot of chill hours during the winter to produce fruit and even with all our snow we didn't come close.

The Barbados or Acerola cherry also pictured below, however, is a tropical cherry that will thrive and produce fruit throughout the tropics and subtropics including North Florida and the Gulf Coast. It only needs freeze protection in the winter and produces a tasty, nutritious fruit. 🍒

🌸Contact us for help and guidance on improving your landscape, fruitscaping, or a special potted Spring arrangement!🌸

🌹Your yard CAN be a bed of roses with these two hardy, beautiful, and constantly blooming varieties 🌹 The 'Knockout' rose comes in all shades of pinks, peaches, yellows, and whites and is an upright bush with large blooms. The 'Drift' rose also comes in all these colors but is a low growing groundcover with smaller blooms. All do extremely well along the Gulf Coast and survive below freezing.

Contact us for more information and to revitalize your life and yard with plants! 🌹🪴

Happy Spring!🪻🌷🌹 What a welcome from our flowering azaleas this year. The delicate beauties in the top picture are native Florida azaleas and come in yellow and peach as well. They are not only gorgeous but have a beautiful scent. The bold beauties in the bottom picture are azaleas originating from Asia and come in pinks, whites, and reds. They have a faint scent and are evergreen throughout the year. Both of these azaleas are a great choice for the Gulf Coast: hardy, beautiful, and can live for decades.🌸🌸🌸

Contact us for all your Spring plant and design needs, the time is right! 🪻🌷🌹

🍂Heading into Fall and it's time for change! It was a privilege to put in new landscaping for my Church with the help of many awesome people. Six sections of old landscaping was taken out, new mulch put down, and a color-filled, tropical look was put in. The new perennial plants are hardy to 30F and include crotons, false bird of paradise, and flax lily highlighting the beautiful sabal palms.🌴🌴

🍂Contact us for landscape help, change, or potted plant arrangements to celebrate Fall! 🙌

📣Talk about bright+beautiful, there's nothing like a red geranium in the summer! These beauties will last spring to fall and come in other colors like pink and white. Contact us for more information or help with your summer plants and landscaping☀️🌺

🌼If you're looking for a fresh, colorful, low maintenance landscape idea this is it🌼Beautiful color and texture contrast between purple dwarf Loropetalum and perennial black-eyed Daisy that can bloom most of the year. Contact us if you'd like to see this idea or your own vision come to your yard soon!🌻

⚘️Although Spring is almost over, it's worth noting that bulb plants like tulips, daffodils and hyacinths can thrive as annuals here along the Gulf Coast in the early Spring 🙌 Tulips are especially brilliant with their bold blooms that come in just about every color! These pictures are from an early Spring trip to Bellingrath Gardens in the Mobile, AL area: definitely worth visiting for inspiration 🌷🪻Contact us for your plant and landscape needs⚘️

From Christmas cheer to tropical color that will last from Spring to Fall, we can do it all! These potted arrangements were created for my Church ❤️🧡💚 Contact us to help you refresh and update your landscape or potted arrangements🌲🌺

If you love plants, check out this event in Milton this Friday to Sunday!🌹

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We are exactly one month away from our annual UF/IFAS & PSC Spring Festival of Flowers. Vendor spaces are going quickly..... we only have a few booth spaces available. Please contact Robin Vickers at 850-393-7334 or [email protected] !

Some February inspiration!❤💜 These striking and colorful displays use white and purple ornamental cabbages and pink and red begonias. All these low maintenance plants do very well this time of year in North Florida. Simple yet impactful!❤💜

🌸Camellias! A North Florida favorite this time of year blooming abundantly from late Fall even into early Spring. They can be trained into hedges or trees and come in a huge variety of colors and flower types making a beautiful statement in your yard for decades to come🌸