Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day - Dec. 2014

Here are some of the photos I took on the 15th. This is how my garden is looking in December. After a very wet November, the grass looked straggly. Sometimes you just have to let the professionals take over. I saw the gardener working across the road and invited him to come over and do his stuff. 

He cut back the creeping rosemary quite drastically and some lavenders too but I asked him not to touch this one.

If I'd had time, I'd have deadheaded all the roses and maybe I would have more looking like this...

... or like this....

The aloe arborescens has flowered!

My enormous orange tree has lots of sweet, juicy oranges.

My first orchids of the season.

My other orchids were under the orange tree, which isn't the best place to be when oranges start falling to the ground. Well, trying to move them to the verandah, I managed to break two of their fragile stems - the oranges didn't get them but I unfortunately did. Clumsy!

And that's all from my Algarve garden. Merry Christmas!