FNGLA Names Best Plants Of Decade

By Greenhouse Grower staff|January 6, 2009

The Florida Plants of the Year program is in its 10th year now, and the Florida Nursery, Growers & Landscape Association (FNGLA) is celebrating the program’s milestone anniversary by recognizing the Plants of the Decade.

The 10 plants deemed Plants of the Decade include three flowering shrubs–one evergreen with pink flowers and guava-like fruit, one semi-woody butterfly attractor and the third, a low grower with masses of small white flowers. The remaining seven plants are a clumping fern, a flowering ground cover, a robust palm, a deciduous tree, a clumping native palm, a heat-tolerant perennial and a versatile houseplant.

You might recognize a few of the selected varieties such as:

– Groundcover ‘Perennial Peanut’
–’Autumn Fern,’ an herbaceous perennial
–’Firebush,’ a native semi-woody evergreen shrub
–Torenia fournieri Summer Wave
–Zamioculcas zamiifolia, a tropical perennial