en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibouchina

Plant Description

Fruit / flower: large purple flowers
Colour: purple
Flowering time: Late summer through Autumn but can flower all year round.
Flower size: large, 3 – 5″ wide
Fragrance:
Height: 10-20 feet at mature size; can be pruned to be more compact
Width: Compact round bush
Foliage description: Leaves are 2-6” in length and 1-1.5” wide, covered in soft hair.
Foliage colour: green sometimes tipped with red around the edges

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Glory-of-the-Snow (Chinodoxa) is a beautiful flower which looks wonderful in rock gardens, under trees and mixed in among other miniature Spring bulbs. In light shade they can bloom up to 3 or 4 weeks. The name Glory of the Snow is derived from the Greek words chion, meaning snow and doxa meaning glory.

Glory-of-the-Snow is best suited for cold weather. It peeks out in the coldest weather to welcome Spring. There are up to 8 to 10 1 inch flowers to each short 6 inch stem, in a sparkling violet-blue with a white center. There are two or three slender basal leaves per bulb, with a single flower stalk no taller than about 6 or 8 inches. They grow in forests and on mountains, and bloom in early summer as the last snows melt.

Thank You "island native" for your expertise on the ID of this plant :0)

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Looking up a Birch tree trunk

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