Checking my Spanish Cudeca Calendar for the next Fiesta, l look and admire the photo which is of Almendros enflor - Almond Blossom, this is another natural beautiful sight in Spain, a mass of white and pink blossom every which way you look. I think back to childhood memories of spring flowers and blossom. As l sit on my terrace with an array of colour all around me from my plants and flowers, the never ending blue skies attaching to the darker shade of the med and l have to say a beaming beauty of sun at 28 degrees, you d think it was in full, swinging, sweaty summer but alas l am sat here in the season of Winter (Dec-mid March) Spring (mid March- May) Summer (June-August) Autumn (Sept-Nov)
I still plant as l would in England, waiting for my Sweet peas, Irises, Tulips and Daffodils.I am trying to get to know these gorgeous brightly coloured mediterranean flowers, when to water when to prune. I know we have now finished our Olive Harvest, and now I have oranges and lemons from the orchards of my spanish landlady ( ready to make marmalades ) My seasons are still up the creek even after seven years my brain and bikinis say "Warm Summer" and my terrace garden says "Winter"