Jacksonville Beach Tropical Landscaping & Screening

Tropical Landscaping & Screening

Rockaway’s landscaping team enhanced the Nordman’s Jacksonville Beach backyard landscape with additional tropical plantings and screening. The area along the fence behind the pool, hot tub, and patios was perfect for the growth of one of the most extensive stands of lady palms, Rhapis excelsa, we’ve seen. The area along the fence behind the pool, hot tub, and patios was perfect for the growth of one of the most extensive stands of lady palms, Rhapis excelsa, we’ve seen. However, the space next to the lady palms had sparse vegetation with several slow-growing ponytail palms, which led to a proposed landscape design plan by David Holloway that would create a colorful focal point behind the pool and, in time, comparable screening to the lady palms.

Before planting in the large back bed Rockaway Foreman Brett Estes and crew flush-cut a stump. They transplanted the ponytail palms into other beds in the backyard. Then within the cleaned-up new bed along the back fence, a large stand of paurotis or Everglades palm was planted as a centerpiece. Five white birds of paradise and two Chinese fan palms were also situated in the bed to fill in the space with additional height and tropical flair. Around the base of the taller foliage plants, Brett’s team installed 12 Arboricola ‘Trinette’, and 15 Matchstick bromeliads. Following these plantings, the soil surface was dressed with cypress mulch.