Tibouchina does well here....

Boy, I'll say it does! I've never been tempted to try it here, as the ones I've seen look pathetic. Those are beauties!

I wonder what species that could be. Most of them are only hardy to zone 10 or to 9b.

I've seen quite a few, though these two are the largest I've seen. These are between CC and Brookings...Banana Belt....The last time I had one was in Contra Costa years ago.

I have a T. urvilleana now, but it dies down to the ground as soon as the frost hits it. It grows back every year, but it only gets to be about 6 feet tall. Usually it doesn't have a chance to bloom before the frost cuts it down again. I haven't had a big Tibouchina since I left Piedment, which was zone 10a.

These two particular ones are growing the equivalent of a half block from the ocean. I'll have to make the rounds of CC and see what we have going here, we're a bit colder than the area where these two are. I did see another almost the size of these two about a block away from them. The ones I've seen here in town so far are smaller...

My lantanas in bloom, they look better during this time, fuller blooms.



Rebutia muscula, last of its blooms I think, been blooming on and off since April:

I drive this street regularly, but am usually watching the road...just noticed this today...

My guess on that last pic would be a cantua, but I've not grown cantua before and I'm just guessing from pics I've seen of cantua...anyone know what that lovely thing is?
TIA
Sherry

Janet says it's a brugmansia sanguinea......

No new blooms yet..but waiting for this three...




Noid phal-den; Plumeria Celadine; Odontonia samurai

And finally my Plumeria Celadine is in bloom!

Gorgeous plumeria!

Worth waiting for!

Now I want to try some more next year!

Uh oh.....I see the beginning of a 'collection'.....

It seems resistance is futile

Bougainvillea 'Raspberry Ice' finally shows its little blooms:





Senecio anteuphorbium continues with its blooms:

Roadside asters seen today...I think they must be asters? First ones I've seen here and I didn't know they would get this tall, maybe 6 ft.....