Landscaping For This Duck Key Home

We enjoyed making our decisions on the landscaping portion of this remodel project. We hired Dot Palm Landscaping to purchase the field cut plants, deliver the plants to our house, and plant them. They were at the house for two days. They planted a total of 39 trees - 36 field cut areca palms, 2 roebelenii palms, and moved an existing bismarck palm, which are very popular on Duck Key because of the pale blue/green large leafs, to another location.

Dot Palm used 18 areca palms as a screen, instead of a fence, for each side of the property from the street to the water's edge. These plants are 12 feet high now and will grow slowly to about 15 feet maximum. The areca palm is very beautiful and maintenance free. When a leaf dies, just easily pull it out from the base. The seed pod is low and is also easy to clean up after it has dropped its seeds for the new growth and, can't forget - the seeds feed our Florida Keys' wild birds.

All the new trees are already on an irrigation drip. When the island of Duck Key connects to the central sewer plant the island will be getting a "gray" water line for irrigation. The cost to water your plants on Duck Key will be so much less than other areas in the Florida Keys because we are able to recycle some of the waste water from the central sewer facility.

The Dot Palm company is located in Marathon, Florida. John Harrison is the owner. He has hired the most courteous and talented people in the Keys. John and one of his crew managers, Glen Hutchinson, were able to help us make decisions on the best drought resistant Florida Keys' trees. John and Glen were meticulous in positioning each areca palm down the property's border, and the same for the 2 roebenii palms and the new hole for the bismarck palm. Now, that's a testimony John should use on his own website! A big thank you to John, Glen, Jeff, and Javier!

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