Search

Join Our E-News List

Riverland Nursery, Fort Myers, FL

  • Fresh Plants

    We select and purchase plants from among the best growers throughout Florida.  Hundreds of plants are ordered and delivered each week to Riverland to ensure the “freshest” and best specimens of each variety.

 

About Us

Riverland Nursery is SW Florida’s premier garden center and nursery specializing in native and other sustainable plants designed to flourish in Florida’s unique and often arid climate. These are plants that require little if any irrigation once established, resistance to pests, and minimal maintenance.

Visit our expansive nursery; cool-off in our air-conditioned lobby; stroll through lovely demonstration gardens featuring Florida native plants, unique bamboo, cold-resistant hedges, and a magical butterfly garden.  Hundreds of plants are displayed with information about their unique growth habits and characteristics such as their abilities to withstand cold and drought.

Riverland is a full-service nursery providing distinctive and successful landscape design and installation; special and rapid plant order capabilities; pine straw and other mulches; delivery and installation of plants; and horticulture consulting from our attentive and experienced staff.

Classes are regularly offered in our spacious, air-conditioned classroom to provide useful information about various plant subjects. Recent classes have featured landscape basics, the use of bamboo, cold and drought tolerant plants, edible plants, citrus, orchids, using succulents, and plant maintenance.

 

White Mussaenda & Dwarf Bougainvillea

Great Summer Plants

The summer blooming plants are in their full glory at this time of the year.  We have many beautiful specimens in stock.  One of our favorites is the Mussaenda shrub which comes in several gorgeous colors, is a great landscape focal point during the summer and does well as a container plant.  If you are looking for a summer blooming tree, the "Yellow Poinciana" aka "Copperpod" is a fantastic tropical tree with beautiful yellow flowers.  We have one growing at the nursery which is starting to bloom.  Come by and take a look!

 

Paurotis Palm
Plants That Survive in Standing Water

With the advent of the rainy season, we are frequently asked about plants that will survive in standing water.  These are some of our suggestions for our SW Florida climate.  These are also great plants to use if you are building a rain garden.
 
PALMS:  Paurotis, Spindle, Royal, Needle, Saw Palmetto and Sabal Palm
 
GRASSES:  Lemon Grass, Sand Cordgrass, Miscanthus, Muhly and Fakahatchee Grass, Blue Flag Iris and Rain Lily
 
SHRUBS:  Green and Silver Buttonwood, Buttonbush, Galberry, Walter's Viburnum, Screw Pine, Florida Anise, Yaupon and Buford's Holly, Leather Fern, Myrsine and Wax Myrtle
 
TREES:  Red Maple, Pond Apple, Loblolly Bay, Dahoon Holly, Sweetgum, Sweetbay Magnolia, Sycamore, and Pond Cypress