An Algarve Garden -2023/24

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda @Victoria ... I am looking forward to seeing some interesting photos from your Algarve garden as the months go by
And Bella wishes Van and Munchkin Feliz Ano Novo too

 

From ours to yours ...

 

A sign of life to begin the year from the massacre of the Myrtus 'tarentina' and the Jacarada the end of October ...

 

Maybe they will look better after they've regrown, than they did before

 

True Michael, but it will be a challenge for them.

 

Schlumbergera truncata (that is what I have it listed as) Christmas cactus on the North facing ledge of The Baffa ..


jatropha podagrica hanging on to its leaves and bloom in The Courtyard ...


Salvia coccinea (Texas Sage, Scarlet Sage) giving a few blooms, also in The Courtyard ...

From the front of house ...
Hibiscus Petit Sunrise, a dwarf variety ...


Thunbergia alata ( Black Eyed Susan) with Creeping Verbena coming through from the rockery ..


Sitting in The Courtyard this morning, view down path with pretty Geranium blooming at Gate ...

 

Very pretty and uplifting Vicky.

 

Thank you Upsy.

 

A month on and new growth at the top of the Jacaranda ... we are so excited.


The Birds of Paradise are dying off but still look good after our cold spell ....

 

I have a Bird of Paradise seedling, (4 years old), growing in our kitchen. It will need repotting in the spring as its roots are pushing the compost out of the pot!

 

February brings ...

Nandina coloured up nicely (behind Munchkin)... I wasn't sure it would here ...


Iochroma still with blooms ...


Oxalis triangularis ...


Thunbergia alata (oirange) still climbing trellis ... and self seeded and climbing Bougainvillea nearby)





Van is peeking through the trellis Find the cat ...


Nandina 'Fire Power' in full colour mode now ...


Hibiscus rosa-sinensis Double Peach under the Brugmansia ...


Brugmansia 'Charles Grimaldi' ...


Pelargonium in lower rockery (about 5 ft tall) ...

 

you have so many plants in flower!

 

March is here already and we haven't had any rain to speak of which is why I prefer evergreen ...


Freesias, Photinia and Iochroma ...




Munchkin lazing on the air/heat condenser under the Bougainvilla ...