An Algarve Garden 2024/2025

A couple from this morning ...





... and with Van back in his tree now it has fronds ...

 

The Hibiscus are very slow this year but a few from this past week ...










The two remaining solar panels went up...

 

The Hibiscus are beautiful @Victoria

 

Thank you Michael. Even though they are one day wonders I love them. There was just one Red Pagoda today,

 

Well, July and the heat got away ... well no, the heat is still here. So Jim got up on The Baffa roof and took some pics yesterday. For ten years we had a deck up there but it was too hot to sit up there so we had it removed.

The car park area at sundown with Plumbago and Tecomaria ..



Tecoma from house ..

Looking around ...











We planted everything here. A reminder of when we bought ...

 

Well August just disappeared, along with the high heat thankfully. and here we are into a more pleasant September. This was August ...

 

... and we go into September ...

 

Lovely, @Victoria. I wish we could keep plumbago outside in winter in Dordogne, it's such a beautiful blue.

 

Yes, we love it, but it took three years to really settle in. We cut it back ti about a meter in October, I can see it from the bed in the morning with the rising sun. It blooms May to October. It is the one thing we let run wild.

 

I always like to see your Plumbagos @Victoria, I've got two in pots but they haven't flowered this summer, I think they needed more water than I gave them. One has a few buds now at last but that's all, and it won't look as good as yours.

 

I think it is long periods of hot sun too Michael as I don't believe ours gets much water. It is just one plant in the ground next to the Iochroma which it clambers through.

 

I think in the ground they have a better chance of obtaining some water, even if only a small amount, but a pot dries out quickly.

 

Podranea ricasoliana
Climbing up side of house from orchard where we originally planted one some 18 years ago but it took over.


Pandorea jasminoides
On Courtyard side of Baffa ...



Pandorea jasminoides Variegata ...
On Dining Patio side of Baffa mingling with Honeysuckle ...

 

Ho I bet they smell gorgeous mmmm

 

Just very lightly Flumpy ... prettier than scented.