Terrace in the Mediterranean

Hi everyone, (and sorry for my English),

This is my small and humble terrace, nothing compared to the gardens you grow in Britain. It is a terrace with 5x4 meters that faces east very close to Valencia, Spain, close to the Mediterranean sea. In Spain, most of us live in apartments, we are not fortunate enough to have gardens. In fact, having a 20 m terrace like mine is unusual. Here in Spain there is also no the passion for gardening that you the British have, I think it because it is not easy to maintain a garden with the high temperatures, little rain and lack of water that we suffer here.

We have lived in this house since 2019 and little by little we have been adding plants. Some came from the previous house, others come from cuttings, some have grown spontaneously and others are from a nursery. I water it with a watering can except for the month of August when I spend it outside and turn on the irrigation.

For my taste it is too colorful, but my wife (who is the one who chooses the color of the flowers and many of the plants) loves it that way. And "happy wife, happy life." We have zonale pelagorniums, regal pelagorniums, bouganvilleas, honeysuckles, jasmines, bignonia, a philodendrun and some other plants.

I put some photos from the past year month by month. I will post new photos from this year to! Thanks for reading me!!

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You have created a delightful space there @PzaMayor3 . Fantastic!

 

Thank you so much @Plantminded for your nice words!!!

 

Looks amazing,, surprised to see the honeysuckle flowering so well

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Looks brilliant

 

How lovely to see sunshine in December!

The daffodil took me by surprise, in amongst all those pelargonimus, etc, that we associate with summer not April.

 

Ohhh that's beautiful, PzaMayor3! I'm green with envy
Some of the plants we can grow in northern Europe but always needing winter protection and the flowering is much later.
Your wife is right about the strong colours..in bright sunshine they make much more impact.
Do you both like scented plants? I have a nice collection of scented climbers (and Cestrum nocturnum, Lady of the Night) so I'd be delighted to share cuttings with you if you'd like some.