An Algarve Garden - 2021

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Beautiful photos @Victoria autumn is a colourful time for you.

 

Awesome images Victoria,..it was just like wandering around a Botanical Tropical Gardens

 

I love Autumn here Michael coming out of the heat.

Yes, Philip, that is what I tried to achieve.

Ben the Gardener came yesterday to cut the shrubs back so I will try to get some photos later.

 

Obrigadinha. Você também querido Woo. xx

 

After all the cutbacks yesterday by Ben the Gardener ...

Sunseeker Rose cut back for the winter ...


Three Hibiscus cut down under Brugmansia ...


Brugmansia cut to walking under height ...


Tecomaria capensis cut one metre from rockery as it roots when it touches earth ...


Tecoma stans cut back ...


Jacaranda mimosifolia cut back to trunk for winter exposing Van's treehouse much to his horror ...

The Myrtus "Tarantina" in foreground is yet to be cut back along with Plumbago.

 

@Victoria ,..lots of work completed by Ben the gardener,..sad to see the cut backs but it must be done,..you still have lots of blooms to enjoy,..plus you have achieved that Tropical Garden Look

 

Thank you Philip. Ben is amazing. I have used him for some years now and he only charges 10 Euros an hour plus takes the rubbish away. Sadly he cut away a couple of my "danglies" that must have attacked him!!!

It was really a mess in The Skwijery as we call it because our departed white cat Skwij loved that corner. and is buried there as is his sister Puschka. So besides cutting the undergrowth of the Tecomaria he tied back the Bougainvilla so it is lovely and neat now. It has taken a few years already to get it up and over the entranceway over a chain from the Almond tree to the lamp post.

 

Brugmansia "Charles Grimaldi" in the fading light coming into glory after the heat of the Summer and cutback earlier this month ...






Coleus which I cut back to about 10cm in the Spring now 58cm ...


Mandevilla and Plumbago (and an Hibiscus peeking from below) ...


Van sitting in doorway to K3 (Kitty Kat Korner), Salvia farinacea going great guns on the left. Pelargoniums starting to bud again ...


Different view of the Brugmansia 'Charles Grimaldi' looking through to the dining area ..






The one and only Cleome 'Rose Queen' opening nicely ...

 

Beautiful photos @Victoria, and nice to see that Brugmansia again ...
Van is lovely

 

The Brug. is to die for.

 

Thank you Michael. I know I duplicate but I keep my "records" in this link and not everybody follows it.

Besides being a Big Boy, Van solidly weighs about 7 kilos (15+lbs) and has his crossed eyes, the Babe has a cleft palete and his food sometimes falls out when he eats, bless.

 

@Victoria ,..its said by others but i will repeat it,..that Brug is to die for,..masses of beautiful blooms.
I envy you that Cleome,..i had seeds sent from America,..sowed them but they failed me

Wow 'Van' surely is a big boy at 7 kilos,..interesting about his crossed eyes and cleft palate,..a friend in Utah has a cat with six toes,..on both front paws.