Tibouchina urvilleana
Archive entry 12.10.08
7th November 2008
A rather twiggy shrubby species from Brazil. For a long time it has been grown as a greenhouse shrub, and always looks best where it gets winter protection,
but it has proved to be fairly hardy in the milder parts of the south west.
My plant was a cutting earlier in the spring and it is wintering in a cold greenhouse - if it survives then I will look for a dry sunny place outside
to see if it still prospers.