Pick Up & Grow offers applicants a variety of Florida native trees to choose from.
Applicants can pick the species that will be the right tree for their property based on the planting site’s conditions (sun/shade/drainage, future growth potential, biodiversity, etc).
All trees come in 3-gallon containers and must be picked up from the CG Tree Nursery.
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A stately deciduous conifer that is tall and pyramidal in shape. Adapts well to wet and dry conditions.
A small tree or tropical shrub, Blackbead is excellent as an accent or barrier plant and ideal for pollinators.
Medium sized tree, excellent for landscape settings. Evergreen with non-showy, white flowers in the spring.
Gumbo limbo is a great shade tree, known as the tourist tree for its reddish, peeling (“sunburned”) bark. Fast grower with large canopy. Excellent medium-sized tree.
Lancewood is a small to medium sized tree. With evergreen foliage and ability to thrive as a small tree or shrub, lancewood makes an effective screen/barrier plant.
Gorgeous canopy tree with impressive branches. Fast-growing and adaptable to different soil types. Excellent large shade tree (up to 80 ft).
A small tree or shrub, Marlberry is excellent for mixed group or background planting. Has small, white fragrant flowers that bloom multiple times a year.
A slow-growing, sturdy tree with a dense rounded crown and shiny, leathery leaves. Great shade tree.
Fast-growing, strong wood tree that can be found from Florida to Canada. Deciduous tree with new red leaves sprouting in December/January in Florida.
Slow-growing evergreen with the ability to thrive in almost any soil (well adapted for sandy soils as the name implies).
Semi-deciduous fig tree, native to Florida and naturally found in tropical hammocks throughout south Florida. Tall/broad shade tree. Berries attract birds and wildlife (not for human consumption).
Excellent small/medium-sized tree. Gets very bushy, ideal for making hedges and shrubs. White fragrant flowers that attract pollinators.
Medium-sized tree with an attractive canopy of feathery, compound leaves and vibrant pink to purple flowers. Berries attract birds and other wildlife.
Small tree with vibrant, fragrant, yellow puff flowers. Excellent accent tree for landscaping. Has small spiky spines on branches.
Late-blooming, with fragrant, creamy-white flowers and glossy, dark green leaves. Beautiful small to medium tree.
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