Spring in my town (botanical themed photos)

Unfortunately Spring is fairly behind.. there's plenty of colour, but we've seen it so much, so I thought I'd give a few photos, of my town and the gardens and plants that are grown. Most are architectural plants of a Mediterranean style. This will be fairly photo intensive. Put in simple, descriptive terms; this is the marriage of architectural plants, and architecture from buildings.

My town looking towards Wrexham


Begenia cordifolia in flower


Lampranthus roseus giving a Mediterranean flavour (amazing when in flower)


Rather tender Aeonium 'Schwartzkopf' surviving a run of winters here, and looking excellent for 2015.


Collection of gardens


Nerium oleander (Mediterranean shrub) battling the wind.


Cordyline australis with thick trunk!


Cordylines battling the wind


Potted Chamaerops humilis


Cordyline australis peeking over this Mediterranean style wall


Sunny Spring day in someone's front garden

 

South African plant Lampranthus roseus (larger one this time), with tulips and wallflowers flowering, and Berberis darwinii in the background.


Carpobrotus spp (Again South African succulent trailing down wall)... Tulips and trailing rosemary also.


Last years bedding, next years bedding. Pelargonium keeping hold of their flowers.


Xersicaping


Cordylines et al.. architectural garden


Osteospermum still going


More Lampranthus roseus (the town is literally over-run with this South African gem)


Mediterranean inspired house with palm trees (Trachycarpus fortunei)


More palms


Last one.. Acacia dealbata flowering

 

Heswall Stephen? there seems to be a lot of flowers out there, we were at Parkgate yesterday but not a lot there. We went to Ness but the gardens were closed, there are two Acacias in flower next to the old house.

 

Yes Heswall, there is a few flowers, I could have taken more floral photos, but I'm already making people feel uncomfortable by wielding my camera like a photographic psychopath, so I decided not to! Yes I know those, there's about 6-7 trees in all, they used to be a lot lot bigger before 2010 (the Acacias at Ness).. and yes Ness is now closed on a Tuesday :-(

 

absolutely NOT Stephen. It's made a super refreshing change to see some lovely plants, gardens and rather nice properties,
thanks for showing them tonight,
Jenny

 

The Wirral definitely seems to have it's own micro climate and misses some of the bad weather around there.