It's a UF/IFAS framework built around nine principles — efficient irrigation, drought-tolerant plants, limited turf, and drainage-conscious design among them — aimed at reducing water use while keeping a landscape resilient to short-term water restrictions. We can design toward it fully or selectively depending on what you want.

Not entirely — Florida Statute 373.185 specifically prohibits local governments and, by extension, HOAs from banning Florida-friendly landscaping practices outright, though HOA aesthetic guidelines can still shape the specifics of a design.

It can, depending on your municipality's specific coverage cap and how much impervious surface your lot already has — some jurisdictions allow up to roughly 60% lot coverage in residential zoning, others closer to 40%. We check this against your design early, since a large combined hardscape plan can approach that limit faster than expected.

Often yes, particularly once the wall exceeds a certain height that triggers structural engineering review — we confirm the specific threshold with your local building department as part of design.

It depends on your regional water management district, but two designated days per week is the common restriction across much of South Florida. We design irrigation zones and plant selection around that limit rather than assuming daily watering.

By designing drainage as a whole-property system from the start — grading, retaining wall weep holes and gravel backfill, permeable hardscape where appropriate, and positive slope away from the foundation everywhere on the lot, not just around one patio.

Yes — that's essentially the core goal of Florida-Friendly Landscaping design: right plant in the right place, drought-tolerant species, mulch, and efficient irrigation zoning, built to survive short-term water restrictions with minimal damage.

As a licensed general contractor, we handle the structural and permitted elements — retaining walls, drainage structures, paved surfaces, lighting infrastructure — as part of one engineered, permitted plan, coordinated with planting design rather than treating hardscape and landscaping as two separate, uncoordinated projects.