Garden and Municipal Flowers and Plants seen.
I am always pleased to see so many lovely plants and flowers not only in private gardens but in parks and along the roadsides in towns too. Many have ids unknown as my identification App only works on wild flowers so help gratefully received. Here are some of my favourites:
Bougainvillea is always spectacular and makes quite a hedge too
Wild tobacco tree has spread from gardens to roadsides
Common Aloe is another garden plant that has spread out to wilder areas
Fire Bignonia makes an impressive spread over walls
Hibiscus - so many colours
Nerium Oleander white
Duranta erecta Golden dewdrop A really pretty bush covered in these flowers at this time of the year
Oleander used as a hedging plant around the bottom of the posh golf course
Plumbago
Id ? A sprawling shrub again alongside the golf course
Natal Plum ?
Also Plumbago (Thanks Roz and Beryl)
Id? A larger flower than the wild tobacco and more upright
Id ? Again similar to the wild tobacco but larger flowers, it could be one just called the Tulip Tree.
Crown of Thorns Euphorbia milli
Strelitzia and White Strelitzia
Of course we were expecting and have seen many traditional small orange Strelitzia
But we had never seen or heard of the White Strelitzia Strelitzia nicolai which looks more like a large palm tree - it can grow to 8-12 meters in height and has these large blue/black and white flowers!
Lantana (Thanks Roz)
Id? Very unusual almost square flowers on quite a sizeable bush
Id? Again one I should know with these coloured leaves
Castor bean - many of the indoor plants that we have back in the UK are here in gardens and parks but flowering or fruiting as well.
Albizzia ? Huge seed pods
Recurved Thorn-apple Datura innoxia grown for it's large upright white trumpet flowers but the seed pods are quite spectacular too - this one had escaped from a nearby garden.
Pelargonium
Used here as planting in the middle of roundabouts !
Canary Palm
Washington Palm
Fox-tail Agave Agave attenuata
Cassia
I struggled to identify the original photo early in the holiday but having now found 2 much larger bushes complete with seed pods they clearly mark it as being the Cassia species which is a member of the legume family.
Id ? very different leaves to other plants here. Again a small/medium garden bush
Id ? A very unusual variegated-leaved bush as the leaves are very large and look amazing with the light on them
Giant cacti - also used on roundabout and roadsides 
Ids ? Such a variety of shapes - all of the last 4 pictures are from the planting around one coastal development
A rockery - Tenerife style, really solid lumps of volcanic rock with Busy Lizzie etc.
Statice
Huge cacti and succulents
Id ?
Id ?
Gabonese Tulip Tree Spathodea campanulata My favourite tree from last year so I am pleased to have found it again this year and to see it in full bloom, I love the edges of the petals
Parrotbush Polygala myrtifolio
Many plants get called parrot bush or parrot tree but this seems to be the local one 
Id ? A really interesting leaf fold and leaf edge to this shrub
Periploca laevigata
Another evergreen shrub which was overlooked until it started flowering
Berberis sp.
Quite unlike the Berberis we see this is an open woody bush
Firecracker plant Russelia equisetiformis
Large spikes of foliage covered in these bright red flowers. This one was at the airport, even the airport carpark had an amazing array of trees, shrubs and flowers.
These flowers really are very large and the tree was covered in them
Abutilon theophrasti Chinese Jute / Velvetleaf / Lantern Mallow
This photo is worth zooming in on as I have tried to show the definitely mallow shaped leaves and flower but the unusual seed pods too (the oldest on the extreme left). Take a look at the Wikipedia entry for it too - it's got a fascinating history and many uses.
A stunning shrub with thick leaves with red veins on the underside and these large colourful flower groups
This looks so odd and I can find nothing like it on the web - huge white flowers totally out of keeping with the foliage ? I even wondered if they were plastic.
Barbados aloe
The roots of this garden tree were strange enough but then I saw the flower assuming that the onion shaped green and white bit is a bud and the weird cotton-like bits are flowers? It's worth zooming in for a closer look.
I just had to include a few pictures from my day at the Palmetum to show just some of the amazing trees, flowers and fruit. The botanical gardens are arranged geographically and really are from all over the world despite it being just a small area built on an old landfill site. That last fruit is the famous Vomit fruit Morinda Citrifolia as the flesh smells awful even though apparently it tastes great - I'm not going any nearer to it.
Coastal Morning Glory (and many other names) Ipomoea Carica
Makes a nice show climbing amongst Bougainvillea etc.
Golden Trumpet Alamanda cathartica
There are a lot of yellow flowered shrubs many more trumpet-shaped than this but this gets the name. There are also white and red Alamanda just beginning to flower
Delosperma cooperi
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