Harvey Bernstein, curator of Fairchild Garden's arid plants section, holds a Euphorbia tortirama that started his South Miami front yard garden. JOHN VANBEEKUM / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Harvey Bernstein steps carefully through his South Miami front yard garden filled with succulents. JOHN VANBEEKUM / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Alluaudia procera, a small tree from Madagascar, in Harvey Bernstein's South Miami front yard garden. JOHN VANBEEKUM / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Alluaudia procera, a small tree from Madagascar, in Harvey Bernstein's South Miami front yard garden. JOHN VANBEEKUM / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
A Euphorbia stenoclada in Harvey Bernstein's South Miami front yard garden. JOHN VANBEEKUM / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
A menacing Agave neglecta thorn juts out from beneath a flowering ocotillo branch in Harvey Bernstein's South Miami front yard garden. JOHN VANBEEKUM / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Pachypodium rutenbergianum, a small tree from Madagascar, in Harvey Bernstein's South Miami front yard garden. JOHN VANBEEKUM / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
07.07.2008 -- JOHN VANBEEKUM / MIAMI HERALD STAFF -- Harvey Bernstein in front of a Pachypodium rutenbergianum, a small tree from Madagascar , in his South Miami front yard garden. JOHN VANBEEKUM / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
An Adansonia rubrostipa, a baobab tree, in Harvey Bernstein's South Miami front yard garden. JOHN VANBEEKUM / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
An Alluaudia montagnacii in Harvey Bernstein's South Miami front yard garden. JOHN VANBEEKUM / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
A species of huernia in Harvey Bernstein's South Miami front yard garden. JOHN VANBEEKUM / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
A Pyrenacantha malvifolia in Harvey Bernstein's South Miami front yard garden. JOHN VANBEEKUM / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
A Euphorbia bongolavensis, in Harvey Bernstein's South Miami front yard garden. JOHN VANBEEKUM / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
A Deuterocohnia brevifolia bromeliad, foreground, and a Hechtia texensis (Texas false agave), in background, in Harvey Bernstein's South Miami front yard garden. JOHN VANBEEKUM / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
A trithrinax campestris palm in Harvey Bernstein's South Miami front yard garden. JOHN VANBEEKUM / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Closeup of a Euphorbia tortirama, with small flowers, in Harvey Bernstein's South Miami front yard garden. JOHN VANBEEKUM / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
An Agave neglecta (wild century plant) in Harvey Bernstein's South Miami front yard garden. JOHN VANBEEKUM / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
A variegated Opuntia, Mexico, in Harvey Bernstein's South Miami front yard garden. JOHN VANBEEKUM / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
A Dracaena draco in Harvey Bernstein's South Miami front yard garden. JOHN VANBEEKUM / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Harvey Bernstein, curator of Fairchild Garden's arid plants section, inside a small greenhouse filled with succulents. JOHN VANBEEKUM / MIAMI HERALD STAFF
