Too new on local market for longtime experience. Perhaps as long as several years ago I bought one and gave it to a friend who overwinters it in a tub, under plastic. It's about 6'-7' high, in the pot, I guess. I also planted a small one on the north side of a customer's house, in an urban neighborhood where it many persist for awhile. I have also noticed one on the south side of a building in a mild urban neighborhood.

Tender plants like this are grown here as long as winters stay mild enough, say above 15 degrees F. In the past there have been wipeouts at irregular intervals, sometimes as long as 30 years, where the men are separated from the boys. Waterfront banana belt properties and other favored sites are sometimes able to keep California Specials alive/less damaged through some of them.

I planted one in about 1999; it is now about 11 feet tall, still quite narrow. No sign of flowers. My nearby eucryphia hybrids flower reliably.

Seems odd for any Eucryphia to grow that tall without flowering, let alone one that would be a vegetatively propagated clone with the sexual maturity of the original seedling. The one in the pot has been blooming.

If you purchased it at Cistus, inquire if it is truly Pink Cloud. I recall that they found out a while back that the clone they had been selling was not this clone.

Mine could simply be odd. Purchased 3Mar2000 from Gossler Farms in Springfield OR about 40" tall and planted 7Apr2000. Quoting their catalogue: "We found it through a great nursery in California". It is definitely ~11 feet tall and has typical E. lucida foliage. It has received sun only 3-4 hours daily even though in a southern exposure due to a nearby white pine that has been removed; sun-time should now double.

My two large Rostrevors have had none or a handful of blooms at much greater size after previous years of heavy flowering. This year was a nice bloom, upwards of a thousand flowers.

Also two E. milliganii x lucida have not bloomed; after 3 years they are already 5 feet tall.

Later I wondered if it was shaded, which might be the problem. Recommended situation for Eucryphia is cool roots, top in full sun, such as might be found in a heather bed. You might need full light on the coast. B. Mulligan felt they needed a little shade there, so the Seattle arboretum specimens were planted where shadows from other trees played over them.

I'm glad there is one up there that has bloomed; I look forward to mine doing the same.

Thanks everyone. I think I would buy this and take my chances if I saw it for sale. The flowers, if they ever come, sound quite nice.