I've always loved Tibouchina. We had a beautiful Princess Flower growing outside our bay window when we lived in California. I planted several Tibouchina Urvilleana when we moved to Florida, but they were in too much shade and never did well. I recently bought a Tibouchina Heteromalla at the USF Fall Plant Fair for our new house. It's proving to be a more finicky variety of Tibouchina and did not do well in January's freeze. This thread inspired me to do some research on the naming conventions used for Tibouchina and I'm finding that there is an unusual lack of agreement on the Web and in the gardening books . It doesn't help that there are "Glory Flowers", "Glory Trees", and "Glory Bushes" all within the genus Tibouchina. But the common names are not consistently applied. For example, there are a multitude of sites on the Web that refer to tibouchina urvilleana as Princess Flower and Glory Flower. My guess is this leads to a lot of unnecessary confusion for consumers. Which is a shame, since Tibouchinas are "glorious" plants. The link below may be helpful. It summarizes the major varieties of Tibouchina. Here is a link that might be useful: Tibouchina

Well. "Irrelevent and inapplicable" is to my question. I know what JMs should have so I don't need the instruction. However, the sun exposure is that it is here and will remain so until some of these trees mature enough to provide shade for themselves. Tornado: I didn't say I didn't lose JMs. The 1st tornado in 2008 took out 2 of my huge, shade maples and a 6o' pine broke in half landing on my pot bed, destroying 30(?) or so of my babies. This spring I had another tornade which took out two more shade-providing maples, but I only lost a sweet "J.J. Firered" and "Japanese Sunset" to the tree tops landing on them. I've also found hellebore, heuchera and many, many hosta are sun tolerant despite dire warnings to the contrary. Due to other circumstances and long story, building a shade structure is not possible. I'd love a sun sail, but again, not in the remotely near future. Ishboz, you've caught the gist of my question. Size would be nice, but daytime exposure is perfect. I have everything you've listed except "Jordan" and "E.P." I can add a ton more that would probably thrive in your area's sun, including: Atrolineare Maiku Jaku Octopus Boskoop Glory Berrima Bridge Nicholonii Chantilly Lace Japanese Sunrise Seriyu Otaki Kinran Butterfly (yup.) Trompenburg Baldsmith I'll stop now. :) This is a help. I've been searching for nurseries in the area where they say the varieties offered will tolerate full sun. If they can take it down there, they can take it here. Particularly if the nightime temps are such a variable. I'll keep looking. If you get it in your noggin to note any others you have in full sun, I'm interested. Thank you!

Would appreciate any info re:exposure & care of tibouchina in S.W. Fla....have gotten conflicting info re: sun versus shade/filtered sunlight. could use some help before planting.......many thanks

Anyone in the Palm Coast - St. Augustine, Florida area who would like to trade plants and cuttings? Just planted dwarf tibuchinas in my partial shade garden. Found them at Home Depot, nice size! Already filled out and blooming like crazy! I've got some lovely purple and yellow bearded isises, Devil's backbone, elephant ear, purple pothos, gorgrous red and yellow tall cannas, Looking for angel trumpet/Brugmansias, - want it badlly! Plumbago, gingers. Full shade and full sun perennials . BLUE GIRL and Angel Face ROSE.. Please contact at Rhonda9080@yahoo.com :)