Florida Gardening: Need ideas for swimming pool with tropical look, 1 by last_mango

last_mango wrote:
I'm new to this site, but since putting our pool this year in I've been trying to learn about gardening.

We're further south than you, but have put in the following for that tropical look: christmas palms, traveler palms, alexander palms, triangle palm, areca palms, montgomery plams, coconut palm, lots of vines on trellises, angel/devil trumpets, jatropha, thryallis, and clumping bamboo (hawaiian stripe, sunburst, black - along the far fence away from power lines). I had a completely blank slate to start with, so anything has been an improvement. Obviously, it all still has a lot of growing to do, but I'm loving putting it all together...