Terrace in the Mediterranean

Thanks @JennyJB!!!

Here we have a pest, the geranium borer, many people have stopped planting geraniums because, if you are not continually controlling it, it is relentless. It's a great shame, they have been traditionally the kings on balconies and windows.

 

Hi PzaMayor3, get yourself some Bacillus thuringiensis (otherwise known as BT, treatment for pyrale de buis (box moth caterpillar) or pine, processionary caterpillar). It's a bacteria that targets caterpillars only, which is what those geranium pests are. No chemicals involved and it doesn't harm anything else. You spray it on as a prevention and also as a cure. I managed to get rid of the geranium nasties using that.

 

You’ve got me pining for some more pelargoniums, @PzaMayor3. Have found this site that has the most astonishing choice, so might pick out a few to dabble with. They are pretty easy to keep outside overwinter here, often lasting 10 yrs or so, which makes the outlay worth it.

Fibrex Nurseries Ltd

 

[QUOTE="PzaMayor3, post: 1535808, member: 39876
Big containers are indispensable when gardening without land![/QUOTE]

I have a small garden but it is all rock with pockets of red clay. Trees and shrubs we have we had to use a pick axe to plant them/ Being a house surrounded by orange orchards they plough the fields and pile up the rocks in a corner and border the fields with dry stone walls .... and we are that corner. We give the UK a run for stone walls.

 

Your garden is beautiful, I love lots of colourful plants and try to have as much colour as I can in my wet Welsh garden during the spring and summer, but you can have it all through the year it seems - that's nice
I try to have colourful leaves as well as flowers.

There's one member here called @Balc and he lives in a flat in England and he's only got a balcony, but his garden is amazing in the summer. Like you, it's wonderful what he can do in a small space. I haven't seen him around for a while though.

 

... and he lived in Spain for many years. He actually visited here on 19 January ... I miss him.

 

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Thank you so much for that info @noisette47, I was completely unaware!! I'm going to try to get BT, it sounds great. I will try get it online...

 

I am very glad that my terrace has inspired you in some way @ViewAhead!!
And that nursery is amazing, I didn't know about many of that kinds of pelagorniums!! Zonartic pelagorniums, I have never seen that in Spain!! Here in the nurseries they only have the basics. I am very envious of your culture around the gardens in Britain.

 

@Michael Hewett, thanks for your nice words and for writting!!
I will try to get a look on that balcony!

 

I didn't know he'd visited you @Victoria. He's also on another forum I belong to and he hasn't posted on that for a few days either.

 

We are very lucky here. Bill Bryson (the American travel writer who came to the UK as a young man on his first trip oversees … and loved it to much, he stayed to marry and bring up his family here) said England just wants to be a garden … and it’s true. A gentle climate helps a lot, of course.

 

Actually, he visited all of us here https://www.gardenerscorner.co.uk/search/170951314/

 

Hi @PzaMayor3. I think it's beautiful and you've done very well. I think the colour palette is perfect.

Having moved from gardening in Belgium - cold, wet and sometimes deeply frozen in winter to hot and humid in summer and always plenty of rain - to the hotter, drier climes of the Véndée on France's Atlantic coast, I find my colour plaette has changed from whites, purples, pinks, rich reds to more yellows, bright reds, even orange tones as they are so well suited to bright sunlight. Paler colours can just look washed out unless you have some shade for them.

 

Thanks @Obelix-Vendée for your compliments and praise!!! I'm glad you like it!!
Your words about the colors seemed wise to me.

 

Yes, you definitely are!!