FNGLA awarded five plants its Plants of the Year designation for 2007.
Four plants were chosen from the landscape selection of annuals/perennials, vines, groundcovers, shrubs and trees and one from foliage.
Here are the winners:
* Dracaena deremensis ‘Limelight.’ It can be used as a low-light interior plant and in the landscape in
* Cyrtomium falcatum (holly fern) is a perennial and groundcover.
* Zamia maritime, formerly Z. furfuracea (cardboard palm), is a specimen plants or can be used in foundation plantings.
* Galphimia gracilis (shower-of-gold) is a shrub that can be used as a hedge, in mass or foundation plantings or as an accent plant.
* Eragrostis spectabilis (purple lovegrass) can be used as a grass, groundcover or perennial.
Started in 1998 by the Florida Nursery Growers & Landscape Association, the Florida Plants of the Year program links growers with consumers by designating plants that will do well in each of the state’s three geographic regions.
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