My Cottage Garden,..glengarry23.

Amazing how Cats are not bothered by fireworks ,..Hedgehogs are not bothered by Cats

 

I am more bothered by excess heat but don't mind the cold ,..i never mentioned that every time i am coming home through town i think of you,..i pass the Prince Hotel and there is always a van parked outside,..writing in the van is ' 40 tastes of Portugal',..then across the town nearer home i pass the Portuguese Restaurant,..i have never come across one before.

 

I managed to get two new cuttings,.. across the road from the house,..touch wood they take root,..its a 'Barberry/Berberis',..don't know which species as there are approx 400 species,..ideal shrub or bush where one has Deer eating from your garden,..they dont touch them.







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Beautiful bushes.

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No Id Roses.






Look how Dense the Saxifraga hypnoides densa is.






Ophiopogon planiscapus 'nigrescens',..Black Mondo Grass.

 

Fingers crossed the Berberis cuttings take. It is very pretty. The Saxifraga is lush. The Black Mondo Grass is lovely. @pete sent me a rooting of it a year ago but it did not settle in and "disappeared"!

Hope you pop in one day have have a taste. In saying that, I am not particularly fond of Portuguese food, a lot of fish and pork. But I love things like soft goat's cheese and pumpkin jam.

 

I got that black grass in a planter, had it for years but never new it’s name, thanks @Victoriaand @glengarry23

 

Hopefully the Berberis cuttings will root and i intend planting some in my small front garden,..as its an open plan i get the odd intruder or dog .

That Black Mondo Grass in my garden likes some shade,..it produces small beautiful flowers then it produces seeds almost pea size.

For a small town we have Chinese/Portuguese/Thai/Italian/Indian/plus several Chip Shops,..the only one i have not visited is the Portuguese one,..they dropped a flier in my letterbox but i couldn't relate anything on the menu to something i would eat ,..ah i do like goats cheese

 

Grilled Piri Piri chicken is good, but I can't eat it too hot. The area where I live in Central Algarve is famous for it. Sardine pate is good too, I make a good fluffy light one.

 

@shiney ,..thrives on neglect is an apt description,..i have some placed under a garden seat as it was in my way,..not a bother on it and another mostly in shade,..they have proved to be very sturdy plants and easy on the eye,..must thank mine and some others i ignore

 

Oh i must pay a visit to see have they got Piri Piri Chicken,..when i am not so narky and bad tempered,..even sitting is a pain,..enjoyable when it stops

 

Just two of the many Foxgloves cuttings taken from the stems of the parent plant after it finished blooming,..these were ones that had very nice blooms,..plenty of others have self seeded for next year.




Wallflower cuttings.



Still showing its blooms,.. Snapdragon.



Two No Id Roses.






Rose (Rosa 'Korresia')

 

Black Mondo Grass divides very easily too, I had one plant and now have 9.

 

I never manage to keep more than two as anyone who visits tends to ask for one,..i would like to have it spaced between Sedum or between Saxifraga hypnoides Densa,..the contrast would be great,..so between visitors and as i now have no room left,..its wishful thinking

 

As we are almost two weeks into Winter i am really over the moon with all the blooms on the images below,..captured in the past two days.

Peruvian Lily 'Alstroemeria'






Looking into a Shuttlecock Fern.



Coal Tit.



Blue Tit.

 

Beautiful pics Philip...I hate to say this but Winter doesn't start until the 21st December. So we still have a way to go yet.