Notes

11 Incredible Flowers That Attract Bees to Your Garden

The US bee population has been declining at an alarming rate. Other than beekeeping, you can help boost their numbers through gardening. This provides them with a vital food source. To determine whether your location is suitable for such flowers, visit your nearest gardening center or refer to your ...

watered

watered all gardens

mowed

mowed lawns

Potted a Basil start to see if it will grow during the winter months in southern Portugal.

mowed

mowed lawns

mowed

mowed lawn and watered

water

watered all gardens fertilised fruit trees

How tall does photinia red robin grow?

If we begin to enumerate the bushes most popularly used in gardens around the world, the Photinia will surely come to our head, and among the large number of variances we will think of the Photinia Red Robin. Its great particularity compared to the other varieties of Photinias is that their leaves ...

New plant

Spindle "Harlequin"

New plants

Fuchsia "Alice Hoffman"

new plants

Today I have planted Pheonix Canariensis (Canary Islands date palm tree) and couple of mini Cyclamens in my front garden.

Grapes in August, 2019

Our grapes are turning from green to red. In a week or two I think we will be enjoying them for dessert.

My plants

Gaura lindheimeri'Whirling Butterflies' Geranium sanguineum var. striatum Delphinium pacific giant ‘Galahad’

The Lone Cherry

We appear to have an unexpected ability to grow fruit... thankfully, because we can't grow anything else effectively. This season we have been blessed with 1.5kg of gooseberries, 400g of blackcurrants, a cherry and a handful of raspberries. The blackberry bush is flowering, so we may yet see a few ...

orchid

orchid has two flower spikes

Grape clusters for May 30, 2019

So far, our grapes are progressing nicely. This is a picture of our grape clusters for May 30, 2019. We did cut a few clusters horizontally at the ends, because we read that this would yield stronger, bigger grapes. We left most of the grapes uncut, as the picture posted. By late July or August, I ...

shrub i like

Emerald 'n Gold Wintercreeper Euonymus fortunei 'Emerald 'n Gold'

Plants liked

Blue Balloon® Bluebeard Caryopteris x clandonensis 'Korball'

Grapes, April 20th

Our grapes are back! We hope they make it through the summer for harvest. We had a lot of rain this year for January and February. Maybe this will make a nice difference.

Forever fruit.... apparently

We actually managed to grow a few swedes this season.. that looked like swedes too, despite the slug's best efforts. Yay.! :) We've given up on the 'pretties' as 1) our soil is totally rubbish being mostly construction site sand and debris.. and 2) we get invaded by slugs and snails every time it ...

Cleaned up yard of trash from storms.

front yard

Front yard in Lewisville took four and a half bags of red mulch and added some to the side.

cut back ordimental grasses and ivies during March

Spring is Coming

Spring is coming. Our annual flowers keep blooming. They are a happy sign for us. A friend gave me these about 7-8 years ago and they still look beautiful every spring.

February 2019 Lawn

Here's how our lawn looks like this February. It has gotten much greener, because of the recent rains in December and January. It still has some patches of brown dirt. Hopefully, I can cultivate the lawn with some grass seed or patches of grass sod. Obviously, our drought has ended for this year.