Jade plant.

There's several here looking like this these. They typically bloom earlier.

thats amazing....a Jade hedge!!!

They commonly grow as a hedge in California. :>)

what different worlds we live in...:-)

They can also grow three time this size here. The tallest one I've ever seen was 12' (3.7 m) tall.

I saw one 8' in Oakland. As they get very tall,they are less squat and rounded, more tall then wide

The tallest one I've ever seen was in Newark (the 12' Jade tree). It was gigantic! It was very wide and taller than the house. I can't imagine how old it was. I wish I knew where it was located, now.

That had to be pre 1990?
My brother lived in Newark...great soils. So I could see a jade thriving.

Many jade plants survived the 1990 freeze without any problems (around the Bay). I was so amazed to see so many live through such a horrible freeze. I think it's because so many are planted close to homes. The larger the plant the hardier, also. I'm sure many in the Livermore valley were toast!

its amazing the protection a house wall can offer plants in a cold spell...glad some of them survived

Sandra:

So many Jade plants survived the the Dec. 1990 Freeze (it was a very rare, unusual severe freeze that hit the San Francisco Bay Area and most of California around the 20th through the 26th of December in 1990 (San Diego and parts of the Los Angeles areas were the only places spared from the horrible cold). It was the worst freeze to hit the area in recorded history. San Francisco had three consecutive subfreezing nights...the most consecutive nights of subfreezing temps ever recorded! I think SF tied or recorded the coldest low temp ever, at 28ºF (-2.2ºC). The city very rarely ever receives frost.

I just remember it was horrible for our plants. I had a tremendous amount of damage to my plants (many of my tropicals were killed!).

Some things that survived I had? White Sapote. In a pot too. Killed to thickest branches only. Schefflera arboricola...like the Sapote,it was basically pruned hard.
Staghorn fern: Defoliated eventually..but it came back from growing points.
Schefflera calyptratus..killed to the ground from about 15' tall. It came back to eventually make a 25' tree by 2010. All that from 1 " of live bark that was protected by leaf litter.

Stan,

It certainly was a HORRIBLE FREEZE! Most likely it's a once in a lifetime freeze. I remember some members of the Northern California Palm Society did some research going back to the Mission Days. There wasn't ever a record of such a horrible freeze going back to the the 1700's in California. So, it was really a terrible freeze which is highly unlikely to happen in a couple hundreds years, at least.

I was so bummed out at the freeze Andy,I planted nothing that following summer.
But,in 1992..I thought I was feeling the juices again and planted my Howea's,Beaucarnea and some others.
It seems to me every "arctic freeze" since then has never been as cold as the previous one. 1998 it was 28f..but that's much better then 1990's 24f. 2007 was about 30f for 5 or 6 days..better then 28f. And its gone on like that ever since. This winter one 32f day..in an Arctic event with 33'f and 34f's. The mildest big freeze ever.

We were all bummed-out by that 1990 freeze. I had to take so many bags of dead plants to the trash. It was a very horrible freeze! However, as the climate gets milder, there's definitely more chance to grow more exotic, tropical plants.

It would be so nice to see some larger Delonix regia growing up there. Not sure if they'd bloom; however, you never know until you try. This is always what I say. I was always told I could grow many of the plants I was growing in Fremont...but, yet they grew and thrived!

My potted Delonix are alive now that you mentioned it. Like last winter,they died back some. I have to get them off the porch and into a hot spot now that the sun is getting higher in the sky. My porch is great in winter- low sun fills it warm early. Soon,no sun at all...but then its warm summer shade.