The Florida Perennial Garden: Easy Plants That Thrive in Heat, Sand & Humidity Paperback – January 30, 2026

This book is for Florida gardeners. Specifically Central and South Florida, zones 9b through 10b. If you garden outside that range, the advice inside will not work the way it should.Tired of replanting your garden every single year? There's a better way.Most gardening books give you advice that works great if you live in Pennsylvania. But here in Florida, our brutal summers, suffocating humidity, and sudden winter freezes kill the perennials those books swear will "thrive in zones 8-10."I learned this the hard way. After killing $300 worth of blueberry bushes (they hate our alkaline soil) and watching expensive asparagus crowns rot in our summer rains, I realized Florida needs its own playbook.This book is that playbook.Inside, you'll discover the perennial crops that actually survive and produce in Florida's unique climate. Some you'll recognize from the grocery store. Others will sound completely foreign, until you realize your neighbor three blocks over has been quietly harvesting them in their backyard for years. No theory. No copy-paste advice from gardening websites. Just real results from my backyard food forest in west-central Florida, where I've been growing 100+ perennial crops for years.You'll learn:Which fruit trees handle our sugar sand and clay soils (and why most nurseries sell you the wrong rootstock)The Caribbean crops that laugh at our August heat while your neighbors' tomatoes give upExactly how to plant on mounds so your trees don't drown because Florida drainage is terribleWhy cassava might be the most forgiving crop you'll ever growThe truth about mulch in Florida (hint: what works up north creates problems here)Perennial vegetables that keep producing while you're at work, dealing with the kids, or just too exhausted to gardenI'm not going to promise you'll never have failures. I still kill plants. But you'll avoid the expensive mistakes I made, and you'll fill your yard with crops that actually want to grow here.No more starting from scratch every spring. No more fighting plants that hate Florida.Just perennials that produce, year after year, in the climate we actually have.From the author of "Grow Food Not Lawns" (4.5 stars, 100+ reviews). Read more