This is my favorite picture which includes several natural areas coming together. Here you can see the coarse texture of Saw Palmetto, the medium texture of Slash Pine and the finer textures of Pond Cypress, St. Johns Wort and other wildflowers, sedges and grasses.
The fine texture of Pond Cypress gives the illusion of distance while the Saw Palmetto provides an explosion of form with an outstanding blue color. This can be achieved on a small scale as well such as in retention ponds, lakes and moist areas of the yard.
Too bad more of our lakes and yucky retention ponds aren’t bordered by these beautiful plants. Even our canal banks could be landscaped this way with some creative thinking.
The European Climbing Fern in the front was impossible to avoid.