When we had the home inspection done when we bought the place, the bug inspector said that there are two types of houses in Florida - ones that had termites and ones that are going to have termites - it is inevitable. He recommended that you shouldn't have any wood touching the ground next to the house. That referred to the mulch in all the garden beds around the house, some 2x6 treated lumber used as a border and a couple of palm trees that were touching the house. To fix all those things we ordered 3 yards of stream pebble rock to act as a replacement for the wood mulch, cement borders tiles and a lot of sweat.
These are Red Tipped Bomeliads. We thinned out the plants and had enough to line the driveway.
This is Polly's favorite - a little water and the roses came out almost instantly.
This is the bed leading up to the front door and was the toughest to do - a lot of the plants are spider plants but they just grow right in the ground instead of in pots as they do back in New England.
looks like you need to mow the grass behind the rock pile
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