California Gardening: Remember last winter??, 1 by Kell

Kell wrote:
Remember the devastation? Were there any happy endings in your yard?

I was so miserable thinking I had lost my 3 tibouchina urvilleana trees that were growing across my front garden for they are the perfect backdrop to my front garden and also their backs show several feet of purple over the fence to be a backdrop to my courtyard also right thru to December every year!

Well here they are, in full bloom and several feet higher than my fence. I never would have thought it last winter.