Tropical flowering shurb photos needed

Song off India in Bud

Calliandra Large shrub/small tree

I'll get some pics of overall shrubbies, but we rained today (only from the time I got off work until dark...), so couldn't get to it.

Here's Ficus auriculata (syn. F. roxburghii) from this spring. Very red new growth, these are all baby leaves, about the size of a dinner plate. Not flowering, but it's one of my faves...

Carter...I LOVE your orange Tecoma!!!!

Slim pickens from the drivers seat of the air conditioned truck today. I just wanted to get home and take a nap, so I can go to a late movie.

Plumbago auriculata came to America from the Dutch in S.Africa. Widely used in the USA. In zone 8B (Austin TX) it will usually freeze to the ground and return like a herbaecous perennial. Here in the land of few freezes it make a large, fast growing shrub.

My photo of Plumbago.

How about a tropical sage.The salvia Madrensis:)

or some Salvia Van Houteii

Annette,

The salvia madrensis gets huge, you are gonna have some pruning to do to keep that one in its place. I like all the salvia, I will have to put them on my list.

Bromeliads are not a shrub, but they should be on everyones 'got to have one' list.

Yes Dale I know it gets huge but it is so beautiful with its buttercup yellow flowers, it is just 1 off my 130 salvias:)

Annette,

My father's sister and you share the same lovely name.

Your my kind of people. 130!! I want to be like you when I grow up (that will never happen).

I thought my 55 coleus was -- remarkable, I guess not.

Your 55 coleous is spectacular,I didnt even know they had that many varieties;)

Try the site www.coleusfinder.com they have almost 1200.

Wow, 1200 it blows the mind:)

And you thought you had a large collection, makes you an amatuer, makes me novice.

Absolutely nothing wrong with being an amateur or a novice, as long as we enjoy the plants we grow;)

I do enjoy all my plants. And based on your numbers you really enjoy plants.

I sure do;)