I'm not a great 'flower' gardener, but I do like to see plenty of colour around. Perennials are my answer.
The Oleanders this year have been wonderful. Such an easy plant, they very rarely disappoint. We have planted more this year.
I'm not sure what these are in the big green pots (I'm sure someone will tell me). Lady M bought them on Day 2 of our visit, and they have been flowering ever since; they are stunning. Just the type of plant I like; dark green and deep red.
And this is the second flowering of our old faithful Wisteria. The colour isn't very inspiring; I much prefer a darker blue, or even white. The photo doesn't do it justice.
Otherwise the Hibiscuses are all in flower, and our climbing roses are just about hanging on.
It's hot here; 37 C in the shade for the past few days. Early morning watering is essential.
We swim and sit in the shade. Not much else we can do.
Our tallest poolside Palm tree took a battering this last winter, and it's looking very bedraggled. It looks awful, and the wretched seeds continue to fall into the pool. We've decided that it has to come down. A nice young man on a big Triumph motorbike will come this morning to do the essential. We shall now have to think about what will replace it; maybe nothing!
And here he now is!
Looking good. Plants in green pots are impatiens otherwise know as busy lizzie.
ReplyDeleteAh, thank you. They are superb; lovely colour.
DeleteYes, Impatiens.
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DeleteI think it will look so much better without the Palm tree .... they always look tatty to me !!! Your love of colour probably comes from your artistic side although, I would say that I'm artistic but I love white and green in the garden interspersed with a smattering of pink and lilac ! I love that we are all different. My friend who is a potter and went to the same art school as you, LOVES colour ..... her garden and her house are full of colour and she wears colourful clothes ..... I wear black, white and neutrals ! ...... my home is off white and neutral and we always laugh at how different we are when it comes to colour. Your garden looks beautiful especially with the inviting pool ..... i have pool envy as it's hot here at the moment. XXXX
ReplyDeleteI knew someone who had a green and white garden; it was fabulous, but I think he really knew his stuff!
DeleteIt's forecast to be 37/8 C again here today. Too hot really.
p.s. The pottery dep't at my old college was highly regarded. I used to delve into their 'rejects' bin, and still have quite a few of the bowls and pots that weren't quite perfect.
DeleteDefinitely bye bye time for your palm. Our neighbour's palm is also a nuisance here, shedding dead fronds all over the place. They can't be composted so have to be laboriously gathered up and taken to the tip.
ReplyDeleteIt's very strange wood, and our man was worried that the exterior 'matting' would get clogged in his chainsaw. But it's going OK. He's got the top metre off so far.
DeleteI think the red flowers are mandevilla, I'm not sure, maybe there will be better experts here than me.
ReplyDeleteI know nothing of flowers; only vegetables.
DeleteI am not a flower geek either. I prefer to grow plants I can eat. However, I believe those flowers in the pots are bizzy lizzies or "impatiens". I am the new Alan Titchmarsh!
ReplyDeleteThat seems to be common identification. I'd always thought of 'impatiens' as something entirely different.
DeleteThe PALM TREE has now gone. What a paralarva; now all the clearing-up.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's impatiens or busy lizzie.
ReplyDeleteMost gardens here lost their palms to the weevil some years ago. We never bothered to replace ours and haven't really missed them. They aren't a tree you can prune easily yourself. I have a specialist in every so often to tidy up the one remaining one.
We found some large Hawk Moths burrowing at the very top, and it looks as if they might have been part responsible for its demise. I'm pleased that it's now gone.
DeleteI feel as I am at home with you
ReplyDeleteI hope your weather is better than ours. It's about 35 C, and VERY humid here. We're all sweating like pigs.
DeleteI love those bursts of colour in your garden. Oleander are in so many colours. Beautiful. We don't have any but have geraniums which give us our main colour at the moment.
ReplyDeleteI hope the heat is not too tiring. We have about the same here today. I shopped very early morning and have now flopped
It's the humidity which is so debilitating. I keep having to change my T shirt.
DeleteWith hotter summers, I see more air conditioning in places where it was rare. The Gite we rented near Nimes had A/C, we didn't need it in May.
ReplyDeleteWe're staying indoors for the rest of the day. We were outside this morning and it was awful. Too hot and too humid.
DeleteI'm enjoying my patch of colorful zinnias so much this year! They readily reseed themselves so there's never any work involved in having them. The butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds adore them and they also make great cut flowers! One benefit of flowers near a veggie garden is the fact that they attract pollinators which can mean better productivity.
ReplyDeleteI really envy your Hummingbirds. We have Hummingbird Hawk Moths which are beautiful, but not the same!!!
DeleteI really like all the color and the pool adds such a calm inviting color as well.Wisteria , of course.
ReplyDeleteWe sit beside the pool in the evenings, with a glass of wine before supper, it's just about as perfect as we can manage. Far too hot today!!!
DeleteYour property with the beautiful pool is lovely.
ReplyDeletePops of color growing in pots is a nice way to add to the decor. The palm is best gone and taken away
The Palm had been worrying me for a while. There's another much smaller and healthier one on the other side of the pool which is enough.
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