TIBOUCHINA

Tibouchina clavata is a beautiful plant Native to Brazil. Known as the Bears Ear Glory bush, it has striking purple flowers and lush green leaves. It's similar to Tibouchina multiflora (or grandiflora) but has more delicate, longer leaves and thinner branches. This plant loves warm weather and adds a tropical touch to your garden, whether you plant it in the ground or in a pot. Grows into 5-7 foot showy shrub with silvery green, pubescent leaves. It blooms spring, summer, and fall with clusters of purple flowers about 1 inches across. Stamens with distinctive long, eyelash-like appendages. Needs some pruning to shape and plenty of light to bloom. Takes both sun or shade, but the more light, the more flowers.

Glory tree, Purple Spray Tree - very rare, spectacular blooming tree! Blooms 2-3 times a year, spring to fall. Flowering panicles at branch tips can completely cover the tree with rich, velvet-like blossoms.

Princess flower - beautiful purple blooms and velvet leaves. This is a dwarf compact variety that gets very bushy and flowers profusely in full sun or filtered light.

Glory bush, Quaresmeira. Large shrub or small tree with branching habit and huge velvet fuzzy leaves up to 10" in diameter, nice to touch, tend to turn orange/red at the lower part of the trunk. Spikes of purple flowers. A striking plant! Can be grown in both sun or shade. In shade the leaves grow up to 1 ft in diameter.

Pink Glory tree - very rare variety with pink flowers, spectacular blooming tree! Blooms 2-3 times a year, spring to fall. Flowering panicles at branch tips can completely cover the tree with rich, velvet-like blossoms.

Glory tree, Purple Spray Tree - very rare, spectacular blooming tree! Blooms 2-3 times a year, spring to fall. Flowering panicles at branch tips can completely cover the tree with rich, velvet-like blossoms.