Thank you for your kind greetings. I must say all of you are indeed very gentle, and I appreciate it very much. Nowadays I'm a bit inclined to growing mostly mediterranean native plants, because they are best suited for our climate, waterwise, and easy to grow, hardy and drought-tolerant. Besides most of them are aromatics, you know, like lavandula, santolina, rosemary, Artemsia absinthium, sage, thyme, origanum and so on, and they smell heavenly even when you're just passing by
I have one that it's kind of funny, it smells just like curry, it´s name is Helichrysum italicum. And you can use them in cullinary too, that's another advantage. I also have some olive trees, citrics, etc.even banana trees and carica papayas lol, (not with so much success
, as well as some palm like phoenix, washingtonias, and other kinds of palms.
I love pure ornamental plants either, of course, and try to grow the beautiful strelitzias, agapanthus, lavateras,... cactus and succulents are one of my favorites also.
Answering to greenfinger... don't be harsh on George lol portuguese is not a very easy language to start learning... indeed it's pretty tricky, with a pronunciation that not even the locals can sometimes acchive to the full
Let's say that learning spanish or italian would be a better start
But enough chat for now... I'll be giving news about my mediterranean growing garden, or so I hope, and seek your advice about many other plants that aren't so kind to my always droughter , sunny and usually blue skied region (that one was intended to make you all jealous lol)
Have a nice weekend
