mediterranean flora

So delicously continental Miraflores,
where is this please?
Jenny

 

sardinia north coast

 

Oh, mira, I thought you were out in my back garden ... ... someday maybe?

 

Those red Dog Rose type things are gorgeous when in full bloom, along with most other Med shrubs and plants of course. Nice pics.

 

Gorgeous!!! Thank you for posting

 

I suppose technically Hibiscus in Chinese (down into southeast Asia), and Bougainvillea is Brasilian technically, but they do grow very well in mediterranean areas. I actually have a Bougainvillea at the moment in bract (struggling a little), nice photos though.. what is the plant in the first photo?

 

...still waiting for the details after last call though...chicky chicky

 

Yep nothing comes from where it grows these days.
First pic looks a bit like Euphorbia to me

 

It`s a species of ficus , there are many growing in my aerea in Italy , but can`t remember the name , overall even ficus elastica grows in south Italy .
look how big they get

 

Ok its a Ficus is it Sal.
If you can grow F. elastica in southern Italy with all that frost you mention that they get there, I'm sure it must be a lot warmer in winter than here.

 

I was thinking it looked like my E pulcherrima (ie, Poinsettia) pete, but really wasn't sure, mainly because mine droops a lot due to the dry heat and no irrigation.

 

My thoughts also Victoria.
Will have to get Mira to dodge back there about December? or is that too late.

 

Ficus are really though , plus the pictures have been taken in Sardinia , no frost at all on the seaside , If you ever go to Italy you will be surprised of the flora , when I was living there I never cared about ,but many variety of ficus can take few frost easy.
my last dicovery last year , it was the jacaranta tree didn`t even know was possible to grow that in Italy.

 

November to March-ish here Pete.

Wow, Sal, that is an old Jacaranda. Strangely, the ones I have here are completely different to the ones my sister (Kedi-Gato) sees in Florida. Two things in particular, mine have huge clusters of flower like a lilac tree and they are 'loose' in Florida and secondly mine bloom for about two months and in Florida about two weeks!

PS Sal, meant to say that Ficus is humongous, much larger than some of the large ones here.