Strongly considering collecting seeds and planting these around trees as revenge on squirrels for digging up seedlings and stealing fruit. 😈… 🐿️🐿️🐿️😱☠️
These small ornamental trees are in bloom now in southeastern Spain. They are new to me, but it’s some kind of Bauhinia (“Orchid Tree”) in the Legume family. Possibly Bauhinia variegata.
The blooms started in early spring. The internet says they bloom in the fall. (Lies, LIES!) Plant is not self-fertile so you need two. Currently hand-pollinating bc only two plants have opened flowers and the rest are still buds. No pests noticed. Needs protection from high winds.
#ClimateDiary year and 1/2 ago, chipdrop arborists used a stump grinder and chopped up a lot of iris bulbs with the tree and brought the bulbs with the drop. I planted all of them and some are flowering now… a couple months early.
And this winter was so mild, squirrels planted peanuts in the yard last fall and they survived and grew. Replanted them in the garden.
Flores: the wild island at Europe’s western fringe.
Europe’s final scrap of land before America sticks out of the Atlantic like a shark’s fin. The Azores archipelago is part of Portugal, but Lisbon is only a few miles closer than Newfoundland in Canada.
The furthest-flung of the Azores, little Flores boasts grand volcanic landscapes, craters and waterfalls.
En Roma tenemos el Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, recoge una de las más importantes colecciones arqueológicas de el mundo.
Aparte del legado escultórico, numismático u orfebrería, tenemos sus frescos, como este de la Villa di Livia, donde podemos contemplar un jardín con flores, arboles frutales o una variedad de aves y pájaros.