An Algarve Garden 2020

@Victoria ,

Hi Victoria,..with your Cat Avatar i was thinking Cats,..i was mistaken in reading your post and presumed i had read ( my Cat Izabel ( Izzy Blue ) i was watching for the Cat in the car finally the penny dropped ,..very nice car and i like the colour,..looks in perfect condition,..T'other Half made a brief but good video,..liked the music as well,..top marks for that man

 

Thank you Philip. Izzy Blue is a 1997 Peugeot 306 Cabriolet Pinafarina. I got her in 2007 with very low mileage on her. The sun is havoc on cars here so we had her repainted last year.

The programme is called Imagination2 and then of course I had to set up the You Tube account. So today is a learning curve for me.

Will sit in the arbour later so will take the phone (camera) but not much blooming at the moment.

 

Victoria,..as mentioned i like that blue colour,..oh yes the sun can cause terrible damage on cars with the intense sun you get,..your paint job last year brought your car back to a new car look.

I will have a look at Imagination 2,..i am always trying out something different hoping for improvement,..oh setting up the YouTube Account can do ones head in at first then it gets easier best of luck,..enjoy your Arbour session.

 

@glengarry23

Sorry Philip, it is Imagination 3.0!

Our mechanic is fantastic, matched the colour ... it is stunning. I have two people waiting to buy her if I sell (NO WAY) and one is the mechanic!

 

My sport Geranium is now morfing into pinkish white ...



... a few weeks ago...



In front of the house. The patio is over a 19,000 litre underground cisterna filled by rain which was the original way to get water into the cottage. The raised section with the water feature on top is the access. I think we got mains around 2004 but do not have mains out but a soakaway down the garden, which is possibly why things like the Viburnum and Brugmansia grow so quickly without being watered.





We have a French drain under the gravel here ...

 

Aw it looks so lovely Vicky..I can feel your sunshine penetrating it's warmth onto me.
A perfect place to chill with a good book....bliss!!

 

Thank you Upsy. Currently the sun is out and the sky is blue but the wind is gusty and sharp so am staying indoors with the windows open at the moment looking out!

T'other Half came in earlier with a baby snake (dead) which he took off Munch and Van who were playing with it. The joys of the country! He then made this meme for his Facebook page ... it is a pic of Munch when she was smaller ...

 

@Victoria ,

19.000 litre in your underground cisterna is a fair amount of water,..does it run dry in long dry spells?,..might you have a spring somewhere en route to your house as well,..its a great bonus whatever and no wonder some of your plants are getting benefit.

Another bonus you have is with your Geranium changeling,..one of mine was also pink and changed to white so i took some cuttings,..i now have three white one's where as before i never had a white.

Munch and Van Snake Hunter ,..so different from ours restricted to mice takeway's brought home,..cute image of the young 'Munch',..now introduced to Facebook.

As @Upsydaisy posted,..i can also almost feel the heat in your beautiful garden images

 

@glengarry23 Horrors, just realised I didn't answer you Philip! How rude of me, slap hands!

We haven't filled the cisterna in years, unhooked the rainwater connection and removed the pump. No, there is not a spring nearby. All the properties around us have boreholes ... ours was the farm worker's cottage so had nada!

My concern now is this ... where is Momma Snake and her nest??? For years we had one living in our shed which we named Casa da Cobra and it lived on rats. We also had a pair living under the tiles of our bread oven but when we had the bread oven removed one builder got a scare and sadly chopped the head off one and the other escaped but we saw it come back several times looking for its mate. Had a little one in the kitchen once ... an arty pic I did of it ...



Poking its tongue at me ...

 

A few pics I took yesterday ...

Melaleuca (Tea Tree) ...



Iochroma cyanea just budding after massacre pruning ...



Hibbertia scandens ...



T'other Half then climbed ladder today to get better view of |Hibbertia ...

 

@Victoria ,

Not to worry about forgetting my post ,..i had forgotten it myself,...

Ah yes,..where is Mamma and Papa Snake and all its little Brothers and Sisters,..when you know where they reside you don't get a big surprise,..still getting a bite isn't what you want at all,..i like Snakes and used to search for them when stationed abroad in fact any time a Snake was found in Camp it was me they sent for,..most of the others gave them a wide berth.

You did a nice Arty job on the little one even though it stuck its tongue out at you .

Soooooo no rainpipe or pump going to your 19.000 Litre tank,..space below ground used as a Wine Storage area .

Your Melaleuca alternifolia 'Tea Tea',..is the first i have ever seen and a great tree to have,..the Australians export a lot of the oil from them as an Essential Oil,..i have a 10ml bottle of it on hand just now of course that's a small bottle but costly enough to buy.

Love the blooms on your Hibbertia scandens,..T'other half has reached new heights getting that shot

 

First Sunseeker roses blooming taken from inside the Arbour, must get photos from the other side.





A problem I have now is the Jacaranda. I had the other cut down last year but this one has become an eyesore ... they are unattractive shedding and podding, yesterday ...





... and I want it cut in half and the extra trunk angled to the left removed. I will have this done October/November.

This was how it looked last year from up the lane ...

 

@Victoria ,

Hi Victoria,..looking forward to seeing the Sunseeker Roses from outside the Arbour,..still the view from inside is attractive its the shapes/pattern of the wood.

I can well understand your feelings about the shedding and podding of the Jacaranda,..yep that left trunk at an angle would catch my eye every time and like you i would cut it off

Beautiful colours in your last image

 

From inside the Arbour yesterday ...

Toward the orchard, the Cane Begonia ...





Toward the orchard, mismatch of Solanum, Geranium and Myoporo ...



Opposite side with Brugmansia ...







Outside Arbour beneath Sunseeker Rose, Justicia brandegeana ...





And from the front of house patio ...

Iochroma cyanea ...



Hibberttia scandens bud grouping ...



That's all folks.

 

Very beautiful Vicky.