Choosing Palm Trees That Thrive in Sarasota
Not every palm handles Sarasota's sandy soil, salt air, and the occasional cold snap. Here are the varieties we plant again and again — and the ones we leave at the nursery.
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Field Notes
Practical, crew-tested advice on palms, tropical planting, pavers, lighting, and shoreline care — written from jobsites around Sarasota, not from a desk.
Not every palm handles Sarasota's sandy soil, salt air, and the occasional cold snap. Here are the varieties we plant again and again — and the ones we leave at the nursery.
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The best tropical beds are built in layers, not rows. Here's how we stack heights, textures, and colors so a bed looks full the day it goes in and better every month after.
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A paver driveway is one of the biggest visual upgrades a Sarasota home can get — and one of the easiest to get wrong. Here's what separates a driveway that lasts from one that settles and shifts.
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Your landscape shouldn't disappear at sunset. Low-voltage lighting design is about what you illuminate — and what you leave in the dark. Here's how we light palms, paths, and shorelines.
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Waterfront yards lose soil a little at a time — until seawalls gap and the lawn starts disappearing after every storm. Here's how grading, plantings, and drainage work together to stop it.
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