Here are some possible ids:

tropical looking leaf - Aralia

vine - purple trumpet vine

white rose - probably Iceberg

palm - Phoenix roebellini

big billowy tree - podocarpus (maybe, can't see leaves well enough)

pink puffy - Calliandra (maybe, couldn't see leaves)

I couldn't see the leaves on all of these well enough to be sure, but if you search for pictures on the internet you can compare them to what you have.

Thanks! Calliandra seems to be correct from the images of it I googled. Here's a closer look at the leaves of the billowy tree.

More specific on the Aralia: Fatsia japonica

More specific on the lavender trumpet vine: Clytostoma callistegioides

Looks like I have some pruning to do with the trumpet vine to keep it under control!

Photo 1: Magnolia grandiflora. It belongs to the city and they will trim it periodically. It is well established so don't worry about watering. In time it will destroy the sidewalk and the city will remove it. Orange has had very poor parkway tree selections for years--for a while they had Ficus benjaminas, then these big magnolias. Lately they've been trending to Lagerstroemias, a somewhat better choice.

I know this because my Mom & Dad lived in Orange and that is exactly what happened--it popped the sidewalk and the curb. It is the city's tree, so the city had to fix all that.

In the meantime, enjoy it.

The second plant is Fatsia japonica.

The white flowers are 'Iceberg' roses, a good plant, easy care, blooms a lot.

The billowy tree is Podocarpus now Afrocarpus, and it WILL destroy the foundation of your home eventually. It was planted waaaaaaaaay to close to the house. This is a tree that can get 80' tall and wide. Remove it as soon as you can. Yes, they are gorgeous trees; I love them, but it will crack your slab and any concrete paving nearby. The longer you want to remove it, the more expensive it will become to remove. Sorry.

Enjoy your new home. Orange has some lovely peaceful neighborhoods and is a pretty nice place to live. :)

Good to know. I'm not too attached to the tree out front by the garage so I don't mind getting rid of it so much. It doesn't sound like this place is TOO water intensive which is good. My only concern is with how often to water the Orange tree and how to handle that wild, wild calliandra.

Citrus like a deep soak, then a slow dry out to nearly dry, then another deep soak. A deep soak once every month or six weeks, with nothing in between, is better than a light watering several times a week. Or so a professional citrus farmer told me. However there are more knowledgeable people over on the citrus forum, so a visit there will help you out. Again your poor Orange tree doesn't have a lot of root room, but it looks fairly healthy.

Sheer the Calliandra with hedge trimmers to keep it away from your stucco is about all you can do if you want to keep it--it looks like an effective privacy screen if nothing else. Whoever planted it long ago didn't think about how big it would get (like the trees).

If you want to save water, make the foundation beds around your house a lot wider (6'-10') to get rid of some of the more thirsty grass, and give the foundation plants a lot more room away from the stucco. Your stucco will last longer. Of course that is easier said than done with a mature landscape, but something to think about for the future. Builders always make planting beds very narrow. This is because shrubs are a lot more expensive to plant than sod. Shrubs (appropriate ones) are cheap to maintain but expensive to buy; sod is the opposite--expensive to maintain but cheap to buy. So builders make planting beds too narrow, and people end up planting 50' trees 2' away from the house.

Orange has the cheapest water rates in Orange County. Not that you want to be wasteful...

Thanks for the citrus tips. I've actually lived in Orange since 2011 when I bought a condo in the Old Towne area. But I've always wanted a single family detached so I sold that. Besides, I want kids in the future and this area of Orange feeds into the Villa Park schools.

I did a lot of trimming and pruning and laying down mulch today. Things look much better.

Here's a before after collage:

Hoovb, I have to disagree about why builders plant sod. Sod is expensive. A lot more expensive than a bunch of #1s of groundcover shrubs. The problem is that the landscapes look empty snd not very green with a bunch of mulch and onsies. Sod is the epitome of instant landscape and it is finished and green straight away. The market demands instant landscapes.

Phil, congrats on your new home. Word of advice, unless you are really attached to the trumpet vine and don't mind doing a lot of constant trimming, I would take it out completely. My home came with several of these vines and they span well over 100 ft. If I let them go, they climb over every plant in their path, fencing and onto the neighbors house! It's beautiful when it blooms, but very aggressive in growth.