An Algarve Garden - 2021

Hi Victoria,..all beautiful scenes,..i like your new gate,..oh does it open inwards or outwards,..either way its going to appear even better when your Bougainvillea completes its training,..ah i discovered just what happened to cause me to reply to the images of the Sierras,..i presumed i had made a Boo Boo which old gardeners tend to do

 

It slides sideways ... you can't imagine the difference backing cars in.

 

Thats great,..it never hit me that it would be sideways,..i was working out which was worst or best,..opening in or opening out,..neither way seemed best,..well done

 

Following the house and garden walls being painted Pale Yellow last week, T'other Half went out this morning and painted the planter insets in the garden walls Terracotta ... wow, it is an eye opener but will soon fade in the sun as it did before.

 

@Victoria ,..i like it,..Terracotta always reminds me of the Med area,..of course its the colour i painted the front of my cottage

 

Cycad revoluta is starting another round of fronds ...





Suddenly in the past few months the Melaleuca is producing dangly branches. We think it is wonderful and looks quite exotic ...




Nerium Oleander by the house ...


Nerium Oleander bottom of the garden ...

 

@Victoria ,..those Melaleuca dangling branches are very attractive,..reminds me of trees one will see in parts of America with mosses and cotton dangling from branches,..very exotic,..as are the fronds on your Cycad revoluta

 

Your garden is truly beautiful Vicky, a real haven to relax in and escape from the worries of the world.

 

Yes, Philip the Melaleuca reminds me if the Spanish Moss from when I lived in South Carolina. It was lovely, all the old Ante-Bellum homes surrounded by huge trees draped with Moss. Very ethereal.

 

@Victoria ,..ah Spanish Moss,..i couldn't remember it was named so ,..i like the new Avatar.

 

Thank you Philip.

 

The Weeping Trees ... Callistemon viminallis, Melaleuca and Tecoma stans ...

 

Now that is weeping,..one can almost hear the bull frogs in the Bayou,..imagination running riot here ,..that tree is really leaning over!

 

Cicadas live in the trees so that gives us a spooky background. That leaning tree is the Melaleuca. New growth has come from the base.



That was cut back ...

 

This morning different views ...

Through the Fronds ...





At the gates ...