Hey chenoa0125,
I know some guys up in the Washington DC area that used to live in Jacksonville, FL (
http://www.washingtondclawnser...). Due to the climate in your area you can get away with almost anything you want. Usually what I recommend to home owners is to look through Home & Garden magazines and find your top 10 favorite pictures that are featured in the magazine. Once you do that, analyze each photo until you can pinpoint exactly what you liked about each one. Once you figure out what's gravitating you to certain designs you should be able to pick 2 of your photos that you like the most and then you can just emulate a combination of them. Finding out the names of plants should be a fairly easy task too. You can always turn to this wonderful forum OR just bring your 2 photos to your local garden center and ask them the names of each plant or anything that's similar in both aesthetics and functionality. Anyways, hope this helps!
