An Algarve Garden 2024

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  1. Victoria

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    The Sand Garden is to the right of the path to The Courtyard ...
    (I had not changed over the Mandevillas yet) ...

    Path to Courtyard 18 May 24.jpg

    Iochroma ...
    Iochroma 18 May 24.jpg

    Myrtus 'Tarentina' and Iochroma ...
    Sandgarden 18 May 24.jpg

    Munch in Sand Garden ...
    Sandgarden & Munch2 18 May 24.jpg

    In the pots ... Red Iochroma, Iochroma Australe and Clerodendron Ugandense ...
    Sandgarten1 18 May 24.jpg

    Plumbago to left, Grapefruit Ruby ahead and Tecoma stans (Ginger Thomas) and Callistemon in background ...
    Sandgarden & Munch 18 May 24.jpg
     
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      Lovely pictures Victoria, I like how you have balanced them plant pots, is there something holding them on ? :spinning:
       
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        Thank you Sweetie and hi xx. Yes, there are spikes that poke up out of the posts that the ballustrade fits onto. Therefore, you can balance a pot by placing the hole over the spike. Make sense?

        Putting new pictures up tomorrow. :biggrin:
         
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          We worked in The Jungle Room this morning. I cut back the Begonia x corallina (Angel Wing Cane Begonia) and started fresh rootings whilst Jim tackled the Solanum rantonetti and giant Geranium (2-3 meters tall up and over the roof.). Here are before photos. I


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          Jungle Room2 3 May 24.jpg
          Jungle Room3 19 May 24.jpg
          Jungle Room5 19 May 24.jpg
          Jungle Room 8 19 May 24.jpg
          Jungle Room7 19 May 24.jpg

          Me enjoying a Rum and Coke in the sun ...
          VB1a 18 May 24.jpg

          I will put up after photos when I take some this evening.
           
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            A couple of views now ...

            Before ...
            Begonia 13 Sep 21.jpg
            Jungle Room7 19 May 24.jpg
            JungleRoom6 19 May 24.jpg
            BJungle 20 May 224.jpg

            ... and after ...
            Jungle Room Orchard 20 Mat 24.jpg
            Begonia2 20 May 24.jpg
            Oranges Jungle Room 20 May 24.jpg

            The Squeak and Munch (and Van) have easier access now ...
            Squeak & Munch i3 in Jungle Room 20 May 24.jpg
             
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              Lovely Pictures Victoria, you look so happy in your chair there, is that a glass of rum there ? ;) :spinning:
               
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                Thank you Flumpy. xx Yes, with Diet Coke, my tipple. ;)
                 
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                  End of May is nearing and not much is going on here at the heat progresses.

                  One Adenium is going into full bloom ...
                  Adenium 'Anouk'2 27 May 24.jpg

                  ... and in the baby Nursery all is progressing ...
                  Adenium Nursery  29 May 24.jpg

                  Begonia going strong ...
                  Begonia 25 May 24.jpg

                  Excited as Hibiscus syriacus French Cabaret Double finally blooming ...
                  Hib French Cabaret 28 May 24.jpg
                  Hib French Cabaret1 27 May 24.jpg

                  And a few beauties ...
                  Hib Duo2 25 May 24.jpg


                  Hib Paradise Beauty2 28 May 24.jpg
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                    Here it is a week into June and a strange week it has been. There were six Hibiscus blooming at once, and today there are none (except for the French Cabaret H syriacus ...
                    Hibiscus collage 4 Jun 24.jpg
                    Hib April 3 Jun 243 Jun 24.jpg
                    Hib French Cabaret 6 Jun 24(1).jpg

                    First blooms of 2024 on Brugmansia suaveolens Pink ...
                    Brug Pink2 6 Jun 24.jpg

                    First blooms on Adenium Red ...
                    Adenium Red 6 Jun 24.jpg

                    Two of the Oleanders on the Raised Patio ... Double Pink and Double Peach ...
                    Ollie in a Pot 6 Jun 24.jpg
                    Olis & Toby 1 Jun 24.jpg
                     
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                      Oleander in the Lower Border ...
                      Oleander & Izzy 6 Jun 24.jpg

                      Close Up ...
                      Oleander Close 6 Jun 24.jpg

                      Honeysuckle planted at base of Myoporo trunk ...
                      Myoporo trunk 6 Jun 24.jpg

                      White Oleander planted forther to the right in the birder ...
                      Ollie White 6 Jun 24.jpg

                      Jasmin Philadelphus virginus planted further right ...
                      Jasmin Philly 6 Jun 24.jpg

                      Justicia brandegeanna ...
                      Justicia brandegeeana 6 Jun 24.jpg
                      Justicia brandegeeana 6 Ju 24.jpg

                      Tecoma stans ...
                      Tecoma stans 6 Jun 24.jpg
                       
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                        Honeysuckle in Front of House ...
                        Honeysuckle1 25 Apr 24.jpg
                        Honeysuckle 25 Apr 24.jpg

                        Plumbago in the Sand Garden ...
                        Plumbago3 6 Jun 24.jpg Plumbago2 6 Jun 24.jpg Plumbago1 6 Jun 24.jpg

                        Jatropha interrgrina ...
                        Jatropha Spicy2 2 jun 24.jpg

                        Pandorea jasminoides in The Courtyard ...
                        Pandorea1 2 Jun 24.jpg
                        Pandorea2 2 Jun 24.jpg
                         
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                          It is nice to see the sun again after five days of dust haze.

                          The Oleander and Bougainvilla by the house ...
                          Oleander & Bougie 11 Jun 24.jpg

                          The Melaleuca offshoots now the mother tree is almost all gone ...
                          Melaleuca 11 Jun 24.jpg

                          The Raised Patio ...
                          Raised Patio 11 Jun 24.jpg

                          Cy looking handsome with the sun going down ...
                          Cy Sunset 9 May 24.jpg

                          My Adenium "big Five" on step with three blooming ...
                          Adenium Big Five2 11 Jun 24.jpg

                          The Plumbago from the Sand Garden ...

                          Plumbago1 11 Jun 24.jpg
                           
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                            The month is nearing the end so let's see what was happening in the garden ...

                            My Hibiscus rosa-sinensis are starting to bloom at the same time finally ...

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                            Hibiscus syriacus French Cabaret (first year blooms) ...
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                            Artistic photo of my only Hibiscus rosa-sinensis blooming this morning under our Sahara Sand Cloud ...
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                            Bougainvilla and Oleander ...
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                            New Hibiscus blooms. The top one is in the ground, the two bottom ones in pots ...
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                            Hazy view from front doors ...
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                            Zantedeschia aetheopica (Calla Lily) back for second year ...

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                            Platycodon is blooming in the same pot on a pedestal since 2008 ..

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                            I planted some Pink and White seeds around the pot last year but guess they did not germinate.
                             
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                              @Victoria I've just noticed your lovely pics. It must be a full time job watering all your pots!
                               
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                                :) Thank you for visiting. That is T'other Half's job. :heehee:
                                 
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