One fun element in garden design is to grow what doesn’t naturally grow in your region. That can be a challenge, but it can lend itself to more creativity.  For example, while some succulents grow naturally in Florida, one of the design elements in our backyard garden is the cacti that we grow.  As a native Californian, and someone who lived among cactus for a good part of my life, growing cacti was not my first choice.  Yet, my husband was apparently completely captivated by the idea of growing them.  So when he found that a neighbor had chopped down significant sized pieces of cactus, he “rescued” them from a trip to the local landfill.