Heck, it may not even be a North American cultivar. Still, one can drool over this lovely.

Now that you mention it, it does kind of look like a bougainvillia. If it is, I wonder how OLD this thing is? Look at the size of the trunks! I had no idea bougies got that large. I saw some pretty big ones on the side of the cotton warehouses along Broadway Blvd on Galveston Island, but even those didn't have trunks this big. I know LOL, because my Dad and I crept up to those at 5am one morning to steal some cuttings. Those were the variety of bougie that bloom the entire length of the branches (rather than just on the ends of branches).

Here's a nice article on pruning bougies. And isn't her garage bougie just gorgeous? https://www.joyusgarden.com/prune-bougainvillea/

I had a boogie in a rental house in Hawaii, actually at my father's house that I lived at for awhile . It perched over a hill that went over a perfectly manicured Japanese garden . That thing had 10" diameter trunk and it divided at the base and was HUGE. It fell down on this woman's garden after a Kona Storm. IT was a steep slope below the plant. My boyfriend at the time had an old Ford Truck with a tall pipe rack on it that went up higher than the cab. We filled that thing up three times and took it to the dump. Did I mention that Bougies have thorns? We tried to access it all from above and not walk on her garden but she had gardened right up under it. She was very appreciative none the less and took the damage as part of life. She had enjoyed having this incredible wall of color hiding a un-gardenable slope and we did the best we could... I never realized that it was the landowners responsibility, not mine till later. I don't think he ever heard about it. She said she had never seen a haole girl work as hard as I did before. She was Japanese and we made friends over the experience. I am still friends with her daughters who all watched me critically from their lanai. That bougie took it in stride and was almost as large a year later. I have admired them vicariously. They love warm and arid .

I just love the shutters on that second floor.

Found it - yes on bougainvillea and not on this continent. It's in Greece. Bougainvillea Chalki Greece

How interesting.

Mara, are you kidding about upper shutters?

Maybe an azalea in standard form but that puppy looks photoshopped to me

Not kidding about those shutters. I do admire true weathered brokenness. Those are artwork. I wonder about their age and their demise, their stripped down functionality .leaving fishbones of structure. I am not saying that they should not be replaced. Of the guy wants shutters, yea, he needs new shutters, but if he wants to meditate on time and entropy while gazing out his window and the music made by the rattling wind, those shutters are great. Being someone who fixes broken antiques, I admire true brokenesss.

Judging by the neutral colors in the stone, and the blue of the sky, I don't think the colors were that photoshopped ....not a whole bunch. The shot might have been over exposed originally, and they darkened the whole image and while darkening , the colors were richened.

Then I’m just downright jealous, ha

Mara, I think the shutters give the place some character, too. I can just see such a cool building in Italy, or Greece, or southern France. And the cobbled stone street is to die for out front of this building.