Bright-colored hot pink ti plants contrast well with the silver bromeliads. Designed by Pamela Crawford. See over 2000 images of her south Florida work at pamela-crawford.com.

SDH Studio - Architecture and Design Location: Golden Beach, Florida, USA Set on a narrow radial lot in Golden Beach, the architectural intent of this home was to maximize outdoor living areas while respecting a detailed program for the interior of the home. Overlapping volumes cantilever over the landscape to create opportunities for outdoor entertaining. Project in collaboration with Oona Architecture. Argentina.

Lovely, clean-lined landscape by Pamela Crawford featuring lots of bromeliads, containers, and Mexican beach pebble borders. See over 2000 photos of Pamela's work at pamela-crawford.com. Photographed by Allen Rokach.

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Largest pot: Portea ‘Jungles’ bromeliad Smaller pots: Sanseveria ‘Flame’ See over 1000 photos of Palm Beach landscapes and container gardens suitable for south Florida on her web site, pamela-crawford.com. Pamela designs and installs landscapes throughout Palm Beach County, FL, including Boca Raton, Delray Beach, the town of Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Jupiter, and Wellington. Learn how to design and plant container gardens from Pamela's book, 'Easy Container Gardens.' See a free, 24-page sample of the book at www.pamela-crawford.com in the 'Books' section. Photo by Joe McBroom.

Front yard design in Naples Reserve with modern tropical plants lined with a Mexican beach pebble border. Included larger bromeliads, bird of paradise with multiple blooms, multiple 14' foxtail palms, an agave, red ti, foxtail ferns and mammy crotons. This design is supposed to look full after plants mature.

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Lovely, clean-lined landscape by Pamela Crawford featuring lots of bromeliads, containers, and landscape color. See over 2000 photos of Pamela's work at pamela-crawford.com. Photographed by Allen Rokach.

Stone wall, Black Polished Stone, Bromeliads, planter pots, tropical landscape. Broward Landscape
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Green walls surround a stone urn planted with bromeliads in this entry garden.
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Black Timor Bamboo, native paurotis and thrinax radiata palms create a dense vegetative buffer along the perimeter of the property, as required by the City of Sanibel for this newly completed residence, and serve to soften the low landscape walls from the passerby perspective. The landscape transforms from the bamboo and native buffer vegetation mix to a modern and organized landscape palette that complements the architectural style, Regional Modernism, of the residence and the linearity of the reflection entry pool, the lagoon pool and landscape walls. Colorful bromeliads and tropical groundcovers were creatively incorporated with native vegetation to achieve a completed and unique tropical landscape design that complies with the City of Sanibel Vegetation Code.

Unusual, eclectic and out-of-the-box plant combinations produce gardens with visual stimulation, especially when suspended in midair under eaves or trees. These showy bromeliads are paired with different types of clumping and draping moss. Though these individual specimens may not seem to have much in common, together they work surprisingly well. As with these bromeliads and moss, you’ll no doubt take a 'lichen' to the endless one of a kind plant creations that Ohana Art Environments can give any of your spaces - large, small, upright or spreading!

This newly completed residence is located on Sanibel Island on a unique bayou site with western exposure for a perfect view of the sunset. The main entry is a long narrow drive that was planted with seven large native live oaks to create an oak canopy with a native hammock understory consisting of native shrubs and ferns for a tunnel like entry experience. Three large curved coconuts sit at the drive terminus and frame the view of the entry lawn and landscape at the front of the residence. There was a strong emphasis on incorporating native palms and vegetation into a Zen-inspired garden feel. Native paurotis palms and green and silver thrinax palms were carefully specified and trimmed for use as architectural elements on the tall exterior walls. Tropical bamboo of many different varieties were incorporated into the buffers for both ambiance and screening purposes. Landscape grasses and bromeliad species were planted for interest along the front entry way. Native shrubs and perennial dune grasses and groundcovers were incorporated into the side yard buffer and in the back yard on the berm at the bayou edge to blend the built element into the natural landscape. The sodded area in the back and side yards functions as stormwater detention area and prevents stormwater from running directly into the ecological sensitive bayou. All City of Sanibel codes were met for this environmentally and ecosystem rich site including holding and mitigating stormwater runoff on site and meeting the 75% native plant requirement in all vegetation categories.

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This newly completed residence is located on Sanibel Island on a unique bayou site with western exposure for a perfect view of the sunset. The main entry is a long narrow drive that was planted with seven large native live oaks to create an oak canopy with a native hammock understory consisting of native shrubs and ferns for a tunnel like entry experience. Three large curved coconuts sit at the drive terminus and frame the view of the entry lawn and landscape at the front of the residence. There was a strong emphasis on incorporating native palms and vegetation into a Zen-inspired garden feel. Native paurotis palms and green and silver thrinax palms were carefully specified and trimmed for use as architectural elements on the tall exterior walls. Tropical bamboo of many different varieties were incorporated into the buffers for both ambiance and screening purposes. Landscape grasses and bromeliad species were planted for interest along the front entry way. Native shrubs and perennial dune grasses and groundcovers were incorporated into the side yard buffer and in the back yard on the berm at the bayou edge to blend the built element into the natural landscape. The sodded area in the back and side yards functions as stormwater detention area and prevents stormwater from running directly into the ecological sensitive bayou. All City of Sanibel codes were met for this environmentally and ecosystem rich site including holding and mitigating stormwater runoff on site and meeting the 75% native plant requirement in all vegetation categories.

Screw Pine, Polished Black Stone, Bromeliad, Boulders Broward Landscape
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Front yard design in Naples Reserve with modern tropical plants lined with a Mexican beach pebble border. Included larger bromeliads, bird of paradise with multiple blooms, multiple 14' foxtail palms, an agave, red ti, foxtail ferns and mammy crotons. This design is supposed to look full after plants mature.

Sun loving bromeliads glow at sunset.
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