Low growing cacti and succulents will be fine. The S. nicolai will out grow that space in a few years. You might want to move about 3 of them to another space with more room. The Queen palm will get tall and not interfere. The med. Fan palm will generally grow very slowly and not present a problem. That is a nice area you have created.

C&S are a nice compliment to that modern style home. The Cypress though are going to make shade as being the tallest plants other then the Queen palm. Those should have been planted in back up against the wall.

Aloebot is right on about the GBOP..that's a big space eater. You might have liked tree Aloe's or Tree Euphorbia's instead. Or a big Trichocereus terscheckii cactus.

Other then removing 3/4 of what you put in ( including the Queen!) I like the plantings. Don't take it personal..just my version of "what if?"..

I have all of the plants you have planted growing in my yard. The only exception is the Cypress (which I also like). I like all of you choices and they look great right now. I made the mistake of not planning ahead for future growth many times in my yard. The instant look is very gratifying. As you get older and have to do major trim jobs so you can see anything, you start to regret not spacing things out more.

Thank you
both for your suggestions and comments.

The first
idea was to design a semitropical landscape that’s why we plant this type of
trees.

Is a big decision
what to do at the end because the plants that I want to take out to make space cost me about
550 euro and I don’t have space to plant them, I have sell the queens,

sterlizia,
cupressus and agapanthus to create full cactus/succulent yard. Sometimes bad

decision
or fast decisions are not good. Waiting to find someone to buy all the trees
will take a lot of
time.

In case
that I decide to leave the plants there I must plant succulents at the front
boarder to

leave space
in the middle to walk to be able to maintain the yard, right?

Terscheckii cactus is a very nice
alternative replacement of sterilizia .

Regarding the Cypress was my wife’s decision to
plant and available area was there,

near the white boarder.

I want to plant those agaves to this yard but I
think if I did not remove the current I will not have the require space for all
to plant a trio of each.

Agave guiengola

California Cabbage Agave

Agave parryi

big echinocactus

yucca rostrata (already installed at the front side)

Senecio madralsicace for ground cover but not to cover all
the area as I want to add pebbles. I like the idea to let the senecio to attach
and seat to the white cement boarder.

I attach today photos of the yard and some of the front
yard which is not yet finished to let you understand the continuity that I want
to give to nearby yards.

Front Yard :

North side yard is a semitropical with pond. no succulents with spines are allowed to protect kids :)

wow! what a great job!

Very beautiful! Your yards look a lot like southern California, but we also use a lot of South African plants. I use a similar senecio in part of my front yard as ground cover (it is currently blooming right now), and I have a cycas in the back yard, but mine is much larger in diameter. It came with the house, and fortunately it is tucked away in a corner. I like the smaller one better. I had Strelitzia nicolai and Strelitzia reginae in my previous front yard, but I don't have room for them now, although I still like them.

This turned out very nice.

Yes very nice.

You might add palms that like warm and dry. Bismarckia, Triangle palms, Brahea armata..in various blue and silver forms. SIlver Med palms. All look great with Cactus and succulents.

Stan, my Triangle palm never looks great. It looks worse if I water it too much. I end up just watering enough to keep it alive. Do you know of a season it actually wants water?

You might have it where the soil stays too wet. Mine..is next to banana plants and..cactus to the other side. But in summer,it gets hot there all afternoon. It was a sprouted seedling from soucal I had ordered from ebay for a couple of dollars. It hated pot life and soil..so in the ground it went three years ago.

I think this is one palm that really wants you to amend the soil around the base of the trunk area to keep water moving through.

You might mulch Aloebot around it..to spread any water evenly and keep it more even keel damp and then slowly dry. Surface palm roots might enjoy rooting into a gravel mulch.

Such a beautiful area. beautiful white house and nice trees. Is that in the U.S some where or abroad? Looks like the perfect growing conditions for just about anything!

Mike

From the sign in the side area, I would guess that he is in Greece or Cyprus, which is the next place I would like to visit.

Thank you all for the good comments :)

stanofh I love Bismarckia and is my favorite Palm but I discover it after I plant the big trees and now I don't have space for her. I plant Chamaerops humilis which was quite expensive but looks very nice , it has 6 trunks and more are coming out. Also I plant 5 Arecastrum romanzoffianum which get very tall and very nice trunk. They will go up in few years and they will let more viewing area for the succulents.

myermike and Lars : Yes Lars has right, the house is in Europe \ Cyprus and hardiness zone is 9b to 10a.

I tried to Plant succulents compatible to 9b-10a.

Lars, you will enjoy full sun if you visit Cyprus from June to September. Juy until middle of September the sun is very dangerous and you may suffer from Sunburn :P around 37 to 45 celcius.

When I do go to Greece and Cyprus, it will be in June, but not this year - hopefully in 2020. I always pack plenty of sunscreen when traveling during the summer or when I go to the tropics. I don't mind heat if I am near a beach where I can cool off in the water.

Lars very good you are welcome :)