Chadec, your garden looks lovely. Thank you for posting. Please post more pictures in the near future, so we could all enjoy them.
marie

Wow! Very interesting plants. I didn't know that if you clicked on a photo it'd take you directly to photobucket so you could see more photos. Did I see a hibiscus in there too? Everything is so nicely manicured.

Marie- Thanks so much, I will post more often now that I have more of my agaves and cacti in the ground.
Pennyhal- Yeah I have 4 different hibiscus in my yard. the one between the sabal palmetto and the siam ruby banana blooms 2 different colors.

Here are a couple pics I forgot about from Plant Delights Nursery a few weeks ago.
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Very nice! The last photo with the darker colors make the silver agave pop. Some of your pics make me want to do birding as well.

Wow, that is really great! Love all those agaves, and especially love that curvy trunked yucca (what is it, btw?).

Can you describe a little about your soil composition under the gravel and the mulch? How deep are those beds?

BTW, I noticed your musa basjoo...off-topic, but I have one in a pot (first season). Debating whether unheated dark garage, or sunny living room winter would be a better choice for it this winter. Any thoughts on that, by chance?

Thanks!

Tom

Chadec,
Your garden is wonderful. I am so envious of southern gardeners. Here in Ohio, I chase the sun around in my home to get a few rays of sun on my plants in the winter, let alone have any succulents growing outside. I struggle with hens and chicks. Thanks for sharing.
Sharon

Thanks everyone,
ssk22, I have a friend on the palm forum from your area with just as much if not more than me outside. He just has to go thruogh great measures to protect everything during winter.

Beachplants, I love that agave ovatifolia has to be my favorite. I will probably cry when one of mine goes into bloom because those are one of the few agaves that don't sucker.

Tom the yucca in question is an aloifolia. It grew as a second head to the mother plant, but broke off at 12' tall. The owner was a friend and so I cut it and brought it home. every year I just dig it up and turn it to get a different curve.

My soil is hard red clay so I tilled it pretty good added enough gravel, compost, and top soil to raise the bed about 4".

About the musa if its in a pot and not too big I would keep it in a heated room with lights so that it would still have a full crown come spring. If you have to place it in the garage by spring it will be just a pole. I didn't plant my musa its first year and keep it in a dark location. The pseudostem rotted, so I had to cut it to the corm.

Nice photos, thank you for sharing those. You have some beautiful plants.

The PD Agave in the last photo--ovatifolia? What a beauty.

They have a different look to them in your climate than they have here. Very interesting to see the effect.

Hoovb I not sure what it is about the PDN ovatifolia, I know its the same same strain as mine from yuccado. But mine does not have that rich of a color. It is following the same form though.