This wet swale started with three gallon size Pond Cypress, Red Maple, Sand Cordgrass, Fakahatchee Grass, Pond Apple, Sweet Bay Magnolia, Yellow Canna, American Crinum Lily, Muhly Grass and Prairie Iris.
I got permission from the Palm Beach County Roads Dept and politely shooed off an obnoxious neighbor who thought these were all weeds. The trees are now 30 feet tall and provide shade and beauty to walkers. I just wish that I could plant the whole roadway.