@johnbishop and all...Want to show a bit of Florida Mayo.
It's so lovely. The construction is of the new building housing the largest protkn??.last??? I'll research and send info. Excitng!!! I love this campus! It's absolutely beautiful. Lovely. Opening yearlong due to Orinda weather ND the best landscape department in the are!!!!!
Enjoy. I'll send more regulay..
Blessings, Elizabeth

Good morning Elizabeth - What a lovely display of "rescues" - when I move to Texas, I have to leave mine behind in the tender care of the young woman next door. She comes weekly to water, trim and take pictures of anything unfamiliar to her.
The flowering plant is either dipladenia or mandevilla - at most garden centers the term is used interchangeably. Both vine, the flowers look the same, but mandevilla tend to have smaller leaves when young and are much more aggressive in sending long tendrils tat wind around everything. Dipladenia are much more polite and can be maintained in quite a bushy form.

I'm trying and experiment this year - when I trimmed the tropical hibiscus to bring them indoors, I dipped the cuttings in rooting hormone and put into pots of starter soil. I brought them to Texas, where we will plant them out in February (because January nights can be a bit too cold for them.)

Another experiment - I saved the seeds at home from all the tall perennials that will grow here - last year I set up gro-lights in the living room - will start the seeds in January & we will plant them out around the fences in the park to replace some of the volunteer trees that were sprouting (they damage the fences as they grow).

When I am not up to my elbows in side dishes for dinner, I will try to get pictures of the blue mistflower that our butterflies love. It survived the first summer thanks to my neighbor, and should be good to grow on its own by next summer. Also a tropical red salvia...

Have a great day - I am so glad you are back on the patio and tending your babies.
Sue

in reply to @ess77 Wow! Another fellow plant rescuer! I am continually amazed when I see plants left near the dumpster when tenants move. I also take cuttings to start new ones, and like my mother used to do, I have a special "plant ICU" for those plants that need some TLC. I have come to accept that I did in fact, inherit some very good traits from my mother: a green thumb, and also I am a voracious reader and baker. Well, I suppose I am also very independent and stronger than most give me credit for. Thank you for sharing these pictures.