An Algarve Garden

I've just had another wander around and found some new blooms ....

Hardenbergia violacea, 'The Happy Wanderer', just starting to bloom but heaving with buds ...



The Rosemary officinalis which had a drastic cutback in November is starting to bloom again ...



Abutilon hybridum ...



... and Abutilon megapotamicum ...



Passiflora Victoria violacea, a bit pale with the winter sun ...



... and my Strelitzia reginae ...





... and Strelitzia nicholai with it's new leaf ...

 

Ahh looking gorgeous, it's been raining here none stop so lovely to see the sun if only through your postings.
I've just heard Anne Swithinbank in You & Yours (Radio 4) saying winter experimenting has shown that a surprising amount of indoor plants are surviving our winters - including bougainvillea - which she recommends having a go at. I think they are more likely to be drowned than frosted if this winter is anything to go by :D

 

Boa tarde, Blackthorn. Pleased my flowers cheer you.

In saying that we just had a mini hailstorm!

Our plants drown in the winter. We need rain from November-March in order to survive the summers. Our rains are torrential, roads becoming rivers and flatlands lakes.

So if our Bouganvilleas and others can survive months of rain, yours should be able to. The difference is, we are wet but not cold. Wednesday we went to 20 degrees but today we are only 16.

 

I agree with you Blackthorn - however, I just came across a canna root which I forgot to dig up, its been frosted, drowned and frozen, but root was fine when I lifted it.

I went to local garden Centre today and they are selling bougonvillia, orange trees and figs in new cardboard type rooted shoots, I think they will probably be OK too.

LoL - I used to have an abutilon at our holiday cottage, everyone remarked about it, but it was left outside one winter and that was the end of it. Then I went to a garden center (another one) last week and there was the fantastic one half price, it was red like yours, but had an orange yellow skirt to the flowers which were huge. I was tempted for my big hole in the lean-too, but have so many candidates that I left it - having seen yours, I may make the effort to go back and buy.

 

My mid March tour of the garden is fairly colourful.

Left to right ... Tecomaria capensis, Cercis siliquastrum, Leonotis Leonuris, Oleander ...







The Bouganvillea has bloomed non-stop this year ...



The shed with Cobaea, Passiflora Victoria violacea, Jasminum polyanthum and Sollya (not blooming yet) scrambling around the trellises ...



Left to right ... Hardenbergia violacea, Canna Indica, Abutilon hybridum 'Canary Bird' and Abutilon megapotamicum ...



Hibbertia scandens and Chlorophytum variegatum, both of which live in the shade of a Jacaranda ...



And one of my lovely Salvias ...

 

Pretty colourful for March LOL :D

 

I'm fed up!!!!!!!

 

Yes, it's not very like my garden, in so many ways, sigh............ :(
Still, I'm not all that keen on the heat, so I'm better off in rainy old Scotland! :D

 

Thank you, pete, roders and dendro. Thought it might cheer those of you with rainy days! I like sharing my sunshine!

Dendro, did you mean not very "unlike" your garden or have I got that backwards, teacher?

It wasn't hot, didn't reach 20 and there was a lovely breeze.

Funny thing was I went out to do a specific thing, trim he Euryops (Paris Daisy), spent three hours out there and guess what I didn't do? :D :D :D

 

You got it backwards! It's nothing like my garden at the moment - the weather is so grey all the colours of the plants seem dull too - completley different from yours!

I think I might possibly guess, LoL - that's exactly the sort of thing I'd do! :D

 

A few more sunny photos to cheer you up ...



Verbenas always looking good ...





Cercis siliquistrum in full bloom now ...



Osterpernums enjoying the sun ...



First Eschscholzia, California Poppy. opened today ...



And something that's worse than a weed ... Oenothera speciosa 'Rosea' ...



Kalanchoe Tomentosa blooming ...

 

It's nice and sunny here too LofL but of course we don't have the warm temps to match. Everything is looking nice and colourful and I do love poppies, this one is like a little sun!

 

April really isn't a very colourful month here but I found a bit in the garden today ...

Cestrum "Newellii" ...



Herb trough on the kitchen patio ...



Salvias in a border ...



First Morning Glory to open at just a couple of inches tall ...



Callistemon viminilis developing it's brushes (way behind strongyloden's) ...



And the Rosemary looking quite healthy at almost five foot tall again ...

 

Very beautiful.. so bight and colourful, Well done!

 

Just had a wander around to catch a few blooms in the sun before the rain comes back.

Glowing in the sunshine ...



The first carnations opened today ...



... and Sweet Peas ...



Dianthus ..



... a single Hibiscus that is supposed to be a double ...



and the beautiful Podranea ricasoliana ...