Choosing Plants That Fit Your Landscape

There's more to choosing plants for your landscape than attractiveness. If a plant isn't suited for your landscape's particular conditions, it will fail. Taking such factors as amounts of sun and shade, soil condition and location will save you time and money in the long run.

UF/IFAS Sites

• Choosing Plants for Your Yard
• Florida Yardstick Handbook: Right Plant, Right Place
• Gardening Tips: Environmental Landscape Management
• Landscape Plants: Site Evaluation for Trees
• Right Plant Right Place in the Florida Keys

UF/IFAS Publications

• Basic Principles of Landscape Design
• Getting to the Root of Plant Choices
• Plant the Right Size Plant in the Right Size Place (PDF)
• Right Plant, Right Place (PDF)
• Right Plant, Right Place: When Landscaping, Create a Mosaic
• Topics: Choosing Plants

Also on Gardening in a Minute

• FYN Principle #1: Right Plant, Right Place

Other Sites

• Choosing Trees and Shrubs--eXtension.org
• Plant Right for the Site--Hazardous Waste Management Program in King County, Washington State