The Florida Panhandle is in the hardiness zone eight , where the wintertime temperature get to between 10 and 20 F. The best flowers for the Florida Panhandle are aboriginal to Florida or share of the tropics . The balmy winter temperature make the inclination of best heyday big and varied with enough choices to make the garden get along alive with many color , size of it and physique .

Scarlet Sage

ruddy salvia ( Salvia coccinea ) is also known as Texas sage and salvia . The works spring up to from 2 to 3 feet tall and produces 1 to 2 inch farseeing triangular forge leaves and undimmed carmine bloom that grow to 1 inch in distance . It will bloom from former summertime up to the time of first hoar . Scarlet sage is native to Florida and grows best in full Sunday and moist soil . In the Florida panhandle , it grows as an yearly with new plant starting from seed the next year . The plant life is used in flower beds and as margin plants . It is a favorite of hummingbirds and butterflies .

Four O' Clock

Four o ' clock ( Mirabilis jalapa ) is also have intercourse as marvel - of - Peru and beaut - of - the - nighttime . The plant grows from 2 to 3 feet tall and the same in width . It get evergreen leaves that grow from 2 to 4 inch tenacious and fragrant cherry-red , magenta , pink , sensationalistic or white , 2 inch long , flush that can raise singly or in clusters . It is potential to have blossom of unlike colour on the same works . Four o’clocks , a native of South America , do best in full sun and moist soil .

Orange Coneflower

Orange coneflower ( Rudbeckia fulgida var . sullivantii ) is also screw as the black eyed Susan . The flora grow up to 3 pes tall and produces hairy lance - shaped leaves that produce to 5 inches long and about half as much wide . The peak are 3 inch in diameter with orange - yellow petal and a purple - brown center . Orange coneflower is aboriginal to the eastern United States and does best in full sun and moist grime . The grime should never be allowed to go teetotal .

Pinecone Ginger

Pinecone powdered ginger ( Zingiber zerumbet ) is also know as shampoo ginger and Awapuhi kuahiwi in Hawaii . The plant life acquire to 7 foot marvellous and produces long thin foliage , and bracts that see like pinecones that start out green then turn over to bolshie . When this happen , humble icteric heyday develop from the cones . The plant is native to southeast Asia , likes full Sunday to fond specter and moist to wet soil . The flowers are used for both fresh and dried arrangements .

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