5/22/20: Yard of Tom Brown

Check out how these slash pines (PInus elliottii var. densa) have grown in Tom Brown’s Sebastian yard.  The first photo was taken on 5/22/20, and the lower photo was shot on 4/16/18.  They now, along with his other plantings, provide substantial privacy.

Frostweed (Verbesina virginica), a.k.a. crown beard and angel wings, with its distinctive winged stems also bring beauty and privacy, and in the background you can see simpson’s stopper (Myrcianthes fragrans).

Other shrubs include a massive mound of bloodberry (Varronia globosa), a.k.a butterfly sage …

… and beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) …

Some of the trees in Tom’s yard included a shapely southern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana) with a Florida privet (Forestiera segregata) to the left …

… a coralbean (Erythrina herbacea) in fruit …

… and a red maple (Acer rubrum) …

Tom’s yard also has abundant re-seeding wildflowers including yellowtop (Flaveria linearis) and blanket flower (Gaillardia pulchella) …

… rosinweed (Silphium asteriscus) …

… blazing star (Liatris sp.) …

… black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) …

… and even tickseed (Coreopsis laevenworthii) in the crack of the driveway …

His Darrow’s blueberry (Vaccinium darrowii) was full of fruit …

A plant that we have not seen in any other yard, sea lavender (Heliotropium gnaphalodes), a.k.a. sea rosemary, with its blue-green foliage was stunning …