Your yard sounds lovely, Doc!
Since we do landscaping, we are ever collecting plants that our customers want to get rid of (I can’t bring myself to discard perfectly good plants!). Our yard is full of all manner of flowers, shrubs and trees. Here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, we have good weather for tropical-ish plants. We have almost a nursery-quantity of azaleas we have salvaged and many other plants—roses, bananas, lilies, mums, etc.