Dinos in your front yard?

I walked by this house the other day and was simply amazed by the succulents in the front yard. The giant aloe plants were twice my height, (I am 5’5”). Those with the cactus it felt very primitive, like some sort of animal from a primitive time were about to walk around the corner of one of the plants. Since we have done zero landscaping to our yard and I have a great deal of time on my hands I was thinking about starting to put our yard together. I like the idea of succulents since I am not very good at keeping things alive and we live in Texas. I have it on my grand list of things to tackle so we will see what happens. Here is a picture of the giant aloes I encountered.

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