Artful Exteriors Inc.

Artful Exteriors Inc. Award winning full service gardening, landscaping and design firm, in beautiful Naples, FL 🌴

06/25/2026

Is your yard ready for the 4th?? Check out this super cute Independence Day color scheme we did for one of our customers! We will be checking in on the flowers as they fill in and grow, so stay tuned! 🎉🇺🇸

06/23/2026

Come along and enjoy the firebush with me this morning! This gorgeous native shrub handles heat, drought, floods, hurricanes, and frost like a champ, and blooms heavily when it’s hottest and your other plants are looking beat. Bonus: pollinators LOVE it!

06/23/2026

Everyone loves a palm tree in SW Florida, but what do you do about all of the fruit?? Some people leave it for the wildlife, and some people remove it before it falls to prevent the mess, there is no right or wrong way 🌴

06/18/2026

It’s time for the Thursday photo dump! Another week of beautiful flowers and foliage, which are looking pretty good even with the heat and humidity. Don’t forget to keep up with your trimming—-things grow VERY FAST this time of year!

06/16/2026

Do you walk into your garden and feel overwhelmed by the plants? Do you look at your flowers and feel uncertain how to trim them? Don’t worry, Artful Exteriors is here to help! I’ll give you a quick tutorial on which plants to pull in which plants to trim so your yard can look good all the time.

06/16/2026

Another gorgeous morning at the beach!

One of the more exotic-looking hibiscus that does very well here in SW Florida is the ‘Red Poodle’, named for the poodle...
06/15/2026

One of the more exotic-looking hibiscus that does very well here in SW Florida is the ‘Red Poodle’, named for the poodle-like tail that emerges from the main flower. These are fairly large blooms, and are a bright cherry red except for some pale blonde striping at the tops of the petals. There is also a peach variety that has the same flower. These can be found at some nurseries and occasionally at the box stores (if you’re lucky enough to find one) and they do well either in the ground or in a container. I’ve had one in a pot for a long time and it blooms like crazy this time of year. These are also fairly easy to keep small, as you can cut the branches back once they bloom out.

06/15/2026

Got a pond or fish tank? Don’t throw away that old water—-use it to water your plants! Fish tank and pond water is usually great for plants, as long as it doesn’t have any chemicals or anything unusual from out in the yard in it. But typically that water full of fish or aquatic waste has a lot of great nutrients! So when you’re done with your cleaning, take all that old fish tank water and use it in your landscape 😁 your plants will thank you!

06/11/2026

The nurseries are full of color right now with all the summer plants 🌺 The main difference between Southwest Florida and most other climate zones is that we stay a lot warmer in the evenings 🌴 Many plants need to cool off overnight in order to be more productive (and we stay warm all summer). That’s why we still have ‘seasonal’ flowers here, and not everything does well all year. 🌈⭐️

06/10/2026

Firebush is a popular Florida native shrub that you see all over the gulf coast, but did you know that there is a variegated variety? Lime Sizzler was discovered in 2011 in Texas, and it is known for its’ unusual foliage which can change from deep reddish to bright neon green during the year. This variety can be quite difficult to find, so be sure to grab a few if you see them!

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