08 Apr 2026 FILM DIARY

The power lines were in place long before the then owner of the house planted the row of tibouchina in Central Avenue, which I filmed more than twenty five years ago and photographed today. They have been regularly pollarded since, to prevent them encroaching on the power lines. I have never seen them looking so well as now. I suppose tibouchina are the autumnal equivalent of Spring’s jacaranda. Both species are endemic to Central and South America.