Specialty Gardening: CA cottage garden in winter, 1 by jkom51

jkom51 wrote:
This plant has the most beautiful leaves of any in my garden. It's totally sited in the wrong place but so established now I would probably kill it if I tried to move it. It is a Tibouchina heteromalla, with spikes of bright purple blooms - when it blooms at all; it hasn't bloomed two years out of the five we've had it.

In the bad freeze we had in 2006 I thought I lost it, but surprisingly it came back quite well. Leaves, that is; it refused to bloom again this past summer!

This message was edited Dec 18, 2007 8:01 AM