BONANZA!
Gotta go with you on this one.
Many of the "native" species mentioned will not live in this zone anyway. Also, even many of the palms listed (and not..coconut, wild date, etc) naturally arrived to our coastlines over the years.
The elephant in the landscape room I don't hear many discuss? Florida native vs Florida friendly.
Here's one for all you "Florida Friendly" , master gardeners and such...
Does Florida friendly mean WILDLIFE supportive?
I mean as long as we are pretending that these "new" Walters viburnum varieties et al are "Native" or "friendly", shouldn't we be asking ourselves how they can be "friendly" when some hybrids (or trimming them prior to blooming or right after) don't produce the berries for the birds?
Also.. seems the same people touting "native" and "friendly" are also saying don't plant palms because of the "palm" rats...
Many species eat the fruits and bees use the pollen and nectars from our different palms.. not just rats.
There is a very wide line between completely wild ( healthy) and a sterile, 100% free and void of bugs and critters landscape. Funny how most all of us land in this very wide line somewhere, and some stand pointing fingers in both directions, calling everyone else wrong.
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