We just bought a house with land (800m2 / 0.2 Acres) that is located on Madeira Island (Portugal) in the Atlantic Ocean. My goal is to create a tropical looking garden, but I don't have knowledge of what kind of tropical plants would grow in this kind of climate.
We are located at 460m (1500ft) in the northern part of the island, in the middle of a valley far from the ocean (3.0km) with very little wind. It's a relatively sunny location (when it's not raining) - about 1500mm yearly rainfall