An Algarve Garden -2023/24

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  1. Victoria

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    Thank you. Yes it is Michael. We are delighted how it has grown back in six months.
     
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      Mid month catch up ...
      Nandina 'Fire Power' changing from red to green ...

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      We don't get the colour change in the Autumn but come into our own in the Spring with Callistemon viminalis, Photinia 'Red Robin' and Bougainvilla ...
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      Here is my Cy ...

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      Photinia Blossom ...
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      A couple of Geraniums ...
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      First Buds on my Pink Brugmansia ...
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      Blooms on Hibbertia scandens ...
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      Jatropha multifida growing micely with new germinated seed ...
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      • Michael Hewett

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        Great to see the Photinia flowering, I've never seen it before ...
         
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          Oh, I just assumed it was normal.
           
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            It must be normal @Victoria, It's just that I haven't seen it before. Maybe the Welsh rain doesn't agree with them.
             
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              Callistemon looks good, all of mine have suffered badly this Winter and it looks like a lot of forming buds have died.
               
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                Thanks Clive. We are delighted with the Twin Peaks. They are nearly as tall as the electric wires and the best they have looked. They are superb swaying in the winds we have been having.. The guy who pollarded our trees inn October asked if we wanted them cut back ... and it was a resounding NO!

                Sorry about yours. :sad:
                 
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                Catchup for the week ...

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                Oleander 21 Apr 23.jpg Kalanchoe 21 Apr 23.jpg

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                • Victoria

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                  My new Red Hibiscus rosa-sinensis ...
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                  My Peach Hibiscus from 2007, this being a single raher than double ..
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                  A surprise today ... first blooms on Dwarf Cosmos Vega done from seed ...
                  Cosmos Vega 23 Apr 23.jpg

                   
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                    Nice and colourful @Victoria, and I must say I always like that wall and the lamp that's on it.
                    Your single Hibiscus is as beautful as the double, I always like ths simplicity and unfussiness (made up word :heehee:) of single flowers.
                     
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                    • Victoria

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                      Thank you @Michael Hewett.

                      Munchkin always sits on the front doorstep before venturing out (taken from my chair in the lounge) ...

                      Munch in Doorway 23 Apr 23(1).jpg

                      Sending some sunshine for those who need it ...(taken from my chair on the Front Patio ...

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                        We are delighted the Myrtus 'Tarantina' is quickly recovering from the October massacre ...
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                        Pots Myrtle 26 Apr 23.jpg

                        After 13 years being dormant followed by some TLC, my pink Brugmansia started blooming today in a helicopter fashion ...

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                          Closing out the month of April ...

                          Pandorea jasminoides coming into glory in The Courtyard ...
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                          Double Pink scented Oleander at the bottom of the garden ...
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                          Pink Brugmansia being a showoff ...
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                          Melaleuca ...
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                          Jatropha intergrrima ...
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                          Hibiscus rosa-sinensis ...
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                          Rhipsalis baccifera ...

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                          Pots by the Raised Patio ...
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                          Looking down the path with Van heading up into his Treehouse ...
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                          • Victoria

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                            May Flowers ...

                            Hibiscus rosa-sinensis opening its first bloom this year ...

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                            Melaleuca is looking its best ever and contrasts nicely with the Callistemon now dying off ...

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                            The Yellow at the top is the Tecoma stans sneaking in.

                            Close up of the blooms ...

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                            The Honeysuckle has come back on the Dining Patio after last year's massacre ...

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                            Also, the birds seeded one in the Rockery and we transplanted it to a trough by the house and it has its first blooms nesting in the Bougainvilla ...

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                            A few shots from this morning ...
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