Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ Guide to Plant Selection & Landscape Design

A Florida-Friendly Landscape is a quality landscape designed, installed, and maintained according to the nine Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ principles. These principles aim to reduce environmental impact by applying water, fertilizer, and pesticides properly, creating wildlife habitat, preventing erosion, recycling yard waste, and employing other practices based on University of Florida research.

This guide, a companion to the Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ Handbook for Home Landscapes, is intended for homeowners who want to design their own Florida-Friendly landscapes™. It includes information on landscape design strategies, a landscape planning worksheet, and the FFL™ Plant List, containing many UF/IFAS-recommended Florida-Friendly plants for each region of the state.