Is this the front of the house? Where do people park and how do they get in? I don't see a walkway to what I assume is the front door (in the walled dark area in the middle).

Since you are so specific with your plant selection it would be best to consult with a landscape designer in your region. Also, you need some trees, so start determining what you're willing to install. I'd advise creating a plan that has less sod to mow. There's nothing more expensive to keep up than grass.

I'd also advise you consider adding full sun bromeliads. Once you plan a few they will multiply and require no maintenance but add color.

A Royal Poinciana Tree is always a good addition to any landscape.

These are so beautiful ideas! Thank you.

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Love this!! It’s so clean looking, thank you!

I'd put the Jasmine to the left of the window and the right of the door. On the left blank wall, I'd have a bed with full-sized birds of paradise, in front of them pink Muhly and in front of that, the sunpatiens. I'd put an evergreen cone-shaped on the right corner. I'd made a path from the door to the sidewalk.

Thank you for all your help. The photo doesn’t show that the sidewalk runs along side the house to the garage.

This was before we removed all the landscaping and painted it.

Make sure to include Florida native plants. For example you can replace the green island ficus and dwarf podocarpus with horizontal cocoplum, coontie (my fav), wild coffee or beach creeper. They look great and are adapted to florida soils so less maintenance like fertilizer applications while also giving back to nature (butterflies and songbirds)!

You can keep your non native specimens but try to fill the rest out with natives.

Lmk if you want more recomendations!

Also check out Florida native palms. They really are beautiful! Checkout Florida Thatch Palm (T. radiata), Leucothrinax, or the florida silver palm (C.argentata).

Start by digging up the grass and as you spend time digging, you will get a feel of the location of the beds and paths. Look at photos online and in garden books as that is a better idea than asking strangers. Just plant what you like, move it around if it dies or would look better someplace else. Mostly just have fun, get exercise and burn calories.

Plant selection is the final phase of landscaping. Before that you need to think in terms of how the space is to be used and decide on general shapes of features. Is there anything you want to hide or emphasise? Where do you want height or mass? Where do you want colour patches or a foil? Only when you have a plan and have done the preparation of the ground do you begin to fill it with plants. Digging up grass or plonking things around the yard before having an overall concept will just look bitty and incoherent.

Thank you Margaret, that is great advice and something that I will definitely do :)

If you budget allows, consider a landscape architect. Otherwise, utilize the University of Florida extension service. The University of Florida has a website for Florida Friendly Gardening. On that site you will find publications to help you design a landscape. There is a photo gallery including before and after photos. . The website link is https://ffl.ifas.ufl.edu/. There is also a must have publication called Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ Guide to Plant Selection & Landscape Design. It contains a list of Florida Friendly Plants and their growing requirements as well as a photo of each plant. You can browse this .pdf file online or download it . The link for this guide is https://ffl.ifas.ufl.edu/media/fflifasufledu/docs/FFL-Plant-Guide_v030624_web.pdf

That said, consider how much time you have to maintain a landscape. It is easy to hire someone to mow grass with a zero-turn mower. If you have a complicated landscape with areas that need to be mowed with a push mower and requires hand weeding, you will find it expensive to hire out and difficult to find a service that will want the job.

You could start by planning landscape beds around the existing palm trees. In order to paint the house you had to remove the existing plants. Consider putting stone “mulch” around the house. A two foot width would probably suffice. . If the budget allows, you could have concrete curbing installed between the rock and the plants. Then you could plant a ground cover such as lily turf (liriope muscari) between the grass and the curbing. Other low perennials could be mixed in with the lily turf. That way you won’t need to prune foundation plants several times a year. Repainting will be easier as well as putting up storm shutters.

In the Florida climate the plants you have listed are a start to me, but I would add in some others and do not see why the need for dwarf bird of paradise when you have room, but regardless, if you are doing things yourself, plan out phases, think of things that you can complete in a weekend, and things that may take longer like when you have a long weekend or a week off work. Lose at least a third of the grass, my preference would be 2/3s actually because a huge advantage of Florida is you can do a lush landscape much easier than other parts of the country, a disadvantage of Florida and the humidity is it can cause mold on your house if you plant too close, so phase one, clear at least 3 to 4 feet from your foundation away, edge it with the steel edging and this would be the only place I would suggest it, put a layer of landscape fabric with 2 inches of pea gravel or fine crushed stone, river rock may look nice but for the sake of practicality, if you need to get to your house to put up storm shudders, replace windows, hang christmas lights etc, a ladder and river rock is a nightmare, fine crushed stone is best option, but even pea gravel you can rake level and put a piece of plywood down for a ladder to stand on. Phase 2, lay a length of rope at about a 45 degree angle from your front door to the street along the longest part of your facade and adjust it until you find a shape you would ultimately like then mark it with spray paint that is the end goal, then do that again to divide the space in 3rds, you will start by prepping the 3rd closest to the house for your taller items and any ground covers (highly recommended for the sake weed blocking.) next weekend do the middle 3rd with your medium height plants and ground cover, and the weekend after that do the final 3rd with lower height plants and edging. I would recommend renting a sod cutter and also adding in native ornamentals with the selection of plants you have because the natives will require much less maintenance and will thrive before the the home depot nursery stock does.

When you are done that do the same for the other side only have the 45ish degree angle parallel to the previous bed starting from the curb to fence. This time start with street side and work your way towards the house with taller stuff up front and along the fence that way when you look out of your window the view will be better.

Pamela Crawford has some wonderful books about landscaping in Florida.
She has tested thousands of plants herself in her own gardens, and makes great recommendations for plant selection and care. I highly recommend them to anyone planning to do some landscaping, or who is just interested in plants.