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Surely there are gardners living on the ocean...
Just finished building a home in southern Mexico right on the ocean with a beautiful lagoon in the back....Hybiscus and bogenvilla do ok, but not much else so far because of the salt breeze...Would love a few ideas. We do not want to put in any lawn....been there, done that. Have transplanted some cocoanut palms and they are doing fine, a papaya has it´s first fruit, a darling little lime tree...some odd local things...but need to fill up the spaces and get growing.
Thanks, Jeannie

There are lots of list of 'beach' plants that can take some salt spray and mists.
Here are some California coast ones. http://www.cnpsci.org/html/PlantInfo/McGrathPlants.pdf
A few more beach tolerant:
large plants such as cardoon, big-leaved plants like canna, and, for textural contrast, grasses such as blue oat grass. Then seasonal color, favoring a sunrise-to-sunset theme that blends reds, oranges, and purples (cannas, crocosmia, Persicaria 'Red Dragon', salvia, smoke tree, and coneflowers), as well as sea blues (catmint, Geranium 'Rozanne', lavender, Verbena bonariensis).