Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - December Flowers in Algarve, Portugal

I am truly happy to share with you today the December flowers of Algarve, Portugal. Winter here is the season I would call Spring to my standards. 17-19C/65F in the day, 7C/45F at night. That's what I am used to when the Spring is warm in my country (Poland). Yep. Warm. Sometimes its colder in the Summer :( Climate is a great unjustice... 

Algarve looks so different than in the Summer. The gardens are still graced with the flowers, usually red/beige soiled hills are covered now with carpets of green tiny plants that are dormant in the heat of the summer and the sun is blessing all creatures living in this mundane domain… Algarve - the narrow south facing stripe of soil at the coast of Atlantic Ocean, separated from the rest of Portugal by mountains.

The flowers on the photos are only flowers blooming in the garden of my host’s house, you have seen here. There is so many more flowers around that I am not including in this post. Would you like to see them too, in separate posts?

I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

I wonder, since readers of my blog come from all over the world, which of the shown plants are familiar and also grow in your garden?

Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day is organised by Carol from May Dreams Garden. If you would like to see more blooms from around the world hop over.

Recommended further reading The Flower Recipe Book.

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day in Poland November 2014

What a true surprise! Such Novemebr can be blessed like no other! I don't remember that warm November and that many flowers in the garden so late in the Autumn. Usually mid of this month there was a heavy snow fall.
Some of the gardeners, especially those maintaining other people's gardens are very unhappy and use to say... we will all pay for this weather next year.... plants will suffer.  Are they right?

I can't say I am unhappy with this temperatures, warmer is better, isn't it?

Thanks to this year's unusual weather conditions I can proudly present flowers from my Moms garden, located in the Western part of Poland (closer to Berlin than Warsaw).   

Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day is organised by Carol from May Dreams Garden - if you would like to see more blooms from around the world have a look here.

Rudbeckia of unknown kind...like little sunshine...

Rudbeckias look much better in my Mom;s garden than mine...

Bergenia usually blooms in the spring, it's definitely not the best time for her.

They grow where they want and they are invited to do so... garbage can is kind of picturesque, don't you think so?

Hydrangea macrophylla still pretty...

Mums thriving every year over one month in the garden...

Some roses are still in bloom... unfortunately of unknown kind...

Double flowered garden growing mums...

Nasturtiums still in pretty good condition...

Look great with rough stones...

Mid-day or rather all-day dew....  

Recommended further reading The Flower Recipe Book

Flowers today - GBBD October 2011

Flowers today... just before freezing temps will come. Tomorrow. Prophecy says...

...beloved white pelargonium came home already....

... pansies went out, bought at the local bazaar today...

... fuchsia, lobelia and plectrantus came also home... fuchsia will survive... what about the rest? Do you see plectrantus flowering?

... barrel seems to be good location...

... Calluna vulgaris 'Elsie Purnell' planted last year, survived last harsh winter...This is really funny to see that so different flowers were blooming last October. For example Colchicum autumnale - naked ladies were blooming in October, this year end of August. I just had a thought that maybe its a sign that winter will come earlier... oh no!!

... Perovskia (Russian sage) self-seeded ....

... Erica vagans 'Diane Hornibrook' grow great in alkaline soil...

Thank you Carol for hosting Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day.