The Garden Club at Palm Coast

Kathi and Jim Bradley of Bridgehaven Drive have been recognized as May 2022 Selection of the Month by The Garden Club at Palm Coast.

The Bradleys’ are from Buffalo, NY area and have lived in Palm Coast for 12 years.

The front yard beds are surrounded with alternating dark pink supertunias and Blue My Mind blue daze.

They always change the flower colors every year.

There are bright pink begonias, sweet alyssum, pink azalea, white scaevola, Hawaiian Ti, philodendron, pygmy date palm, junipers, podocarpus, schilling holly, plumbago and variegated ginger.

The back yard has quite the diversity of plants: fuschia calla lilies, gardenia, Mona lavender, Indian hawthorn, pink camellias, Tibouchina grandflora (Princess flower), hibiscus, bottle brush, bird of paradise,

Southern magnolia, pink azalea, duet rose (white and burgundy), yesterday today and tomorrow, violas of various colors, orange gazania, red amaryllis, dahlia, jatropha, blue agave, hydrangea, Texas spider lily, bush daisy, red pentas, gold cape honeysuckle, and lantanas.

Along the fence are:  Confederate jasmine, bougainvillea, and red passion flower vine. There are hanging pots on the fence of mixed petunias, white verbena, red begonia, large ferns, and white bacopa.

For fruit trees they have a lemon and lime.

You can tell they love plants and color by the diversity in their landscape.

Carlos and Lucia Sousa of Eric Drive have been recognized as April 2022 Selection of the Month by The Garden Club at Palm Coast.

The Sousa’s are originally from Portugal. They lived in Rhode Island then retired and moved to Palm Coast 13 years ago.

The driveway has terra cotta landscape edging and red rocks with several Schefflera bushes planted on both sides. The terra cotta edging and red rocks also border the front beds as well as the center island.

The front door area is flanked by two decorative pots with rubber trees. Inside the beds on both sides are several bird of paradise, Hawaiian Ti, red crown of thorns, Phoenix roebelenii, Chinese ixora, red camelia, purple vinca, mountain snow cap, Schefflera, persimmon fruit and a tangerine tree just started from propagation.

The center island contains a loquat tree, Schefflera, and Chinese ixoras.

Along the side of the house are several 6-foot dragon fruit trees, mountain snow cap and Schefflera. The back yard has 25 different fruit trees: olive, several varieties of orange and tangerines, which have fruit on them, apple, avocado, lemon, fig, bananas, peach, plum, pear, loquat and kumquats. They have an impressive life saver cactus (Huernia zebrina)– however, it was not in bloom.

In pots complete with their own irrigation, they grow cilantro, parsley, mint, asparagus fern, pineapple, shamrock, and croton. They have a grape vine and vegetable garden with lettuce, bush beans, and cabbage. They let one cabbage go to seed so they always have some to replant.

Carlos has an impressive fertilizer chart that lists all their plants with the type of fertilizer to use, how much and what month(s) to apply them. He is quite the gardener!