This beautiful and whimsical planting of the succulent plant Sedum morganianum AKA burro's tail is growing at a friend's house. It is healthy and one of her pride and joys. She has carted it around as she moved about the country and tended it lovingly for years.

Succulents should grow well here in Florida and some do. It is sunny, hot in the summer, warm in the winter (at least in South Florida) and dry - well for 6 months of the year. Great conditions for most succulents; it's the other 6 months of the year the rainy season when most of the 55 to 60 inches of annual rain falls that causes problems for succulents.

Most succulents have plant tissues such as thick waxy or hairy leaves, swollen stems and trunks and thickened roots for storing water. Some have spines which are modified