An Algarve Garden 2024/2025

The Sand Garden is to the right of the path to The Courtyard ...
(I had not changed over the Mandevillas yet) ...


Iochroma ...


Myrtus 'Tarentina' and Iochroma ...


Munch in Sand Garden ...


In the pots ... Red Iochroma, Iochroma Australe and Clerodendron Ugandense ...


Plumbago to left, Grapefruit Ruby ahead and Tecoma stans (Ginger Thomas) and Callistemon in background ...

 

Lovely pictures Victoria, I like how you have balanced them plant pots, is there something holding them on ?

 

Thank you Sweetie and hi xx. Yes, there are spikes that poke up out of the posts that the ballustrade fits onto. Therefore, you can balance a pot by placing the hole over the spike. Make sense?

Putting new pictures up tomorrow.

 

We worked in The Jungle Room this morning. I cut back the Begonia x corallina (Angel Wing Cane Begonia) and started fresh rootings whilst Jim tackled the Solanum rantonetti and giant Geranium (2-3 meters tall up and over the roof.). Here are before photos. I









Me enjoying a Rum and Coke in the sun ...


I will put up after photos when I take some this evening.

 

A couple of views now ...

Before ...





... and after ...




The Squeak and Munch (and Van) have easier access now ...

 

Lovely Pictures Victoria, you look so happy in your chair there, is that a glass of rum there ?

 

Thank you Flumpy. xx Yes, with Diet Coke, my tipple.

 

End of May is nearing and not much is going on here at the heat progresses.

One Adenium is going into full bloom ...


... and in the baby Nursery all is progressing ...


Begonia going strong ...


Excited as Hibiscus syriacus French Cabaret Double finally blooming ...



And a few beauties ...

 

Here it is a week into June and a strange week it has been. There were six Hibiscus blooming at once, and today there are none (except for the French Cabaret H syriacus ...




First blooms of 2024 on Brugmansia suaveolens Pink ...


First blooms on Adenium Red ...


Two of the Oleanders on the Raised Patio ... Double Pink and Double Peach ...

 

Oleander in the Lower Border ...


Close Up ...


Honeysuckle planted at base of Myoporo trunk ...


White Oleander planted forther to the right in the birder ...


Jasmin Philadelphus virginus planted further right ...


Justicia brandegeanna ...



Tecoma stans ...

 

Honeysuckle in Front of House ...



Plumbago in the Sand Garden ...


Jatropha interrgrina ...


Pandorea jasminoides in The Courtyard ...

 

It is nice to see the sun again after five days of dust haze.

The Oleander and Bougainvilla by the house ...


The Melaleuca offshoots now the mother tree is almost all gone ...


The Raised Patio ...


Cy looking handsome with the sun going down ...


My Adenium "big Five" on step with three blooming ...


The Plumbago from the Sand Garden ...

 

The month is nearing the end so let's see what was happening in the garden ...

My Hibiscus rosa-sinensis are starting to bloom at the same time finally ...


Hibiscus syriacus French Cabaret (first year blooms) ...




Artistic photo of my only Hibiscus rosa-sinensis blooming this morning under our Sahara Sand Cloud ...


Bougainvilla and Oleander ...


New Hibiscus blooms. The top one is in the ground, the two bottom ones in pots ...


Hazy view from front doors ...


Zantedeschia aetheopica (Calla Lily) back for second year ...


Platycodon is blooming in the same pot on a pedestal since 2008 ..



I planted some Pink and White seeds around the pot last year but guess they did not germinate.

 

@Victoria I've just noticed your lovely pics. It must be a full time job watering all your pots!

 

Thank you for visiting. That is T'other Half's job.