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[gayleywaley]

What on earth is happening? I don't remember a wetter winter since I have lived here, over 10 years now.
We have had an olive tree slide down the embarkment and relocate itself poolside, I prefer it there, but really hope we don't get many more landslides.
My neighbours who live at the bottom of our land now have a lake, not a garden.
How is everyone else bearing up with this wet stuff ?

[Campo Girl]

I remember rain like this last winter, in fact I did a blog post about the rain and posted images because our garden was just gone

I have posted a link for you here so you can see the photo and see how much rain we had this time last year and it is more than we have right now, we will see if it catches up!

Funny I titled my blog post "the rain in Spain" hehe

Rain in Spain

[Suzy]

Hola Everyone

I have just registered, so very new to your site but I love what I have been reading, lots of helpful stuff and no patronising posts for the greenhorns.  Also bird info and wonderful pet blogs.  We have been here for nearly 3 years now, up in the mountains between Loja and Huerta.  We have had the most horrendous winter this year, thought last year was bad with the rain but the old guys here say this is the worst for 50 years.  Our little bridge over the barranco has been swept away, so we are practically marooned.  Luckily we have a vehicle parked on the other side of the stream so equipped with wellies can manage to get out.  To think I wasn´t going to bring my wellies over here- glad I did.  I had a lovely garden in England and was eager to start again here but it is proving very hard, all my RHS studies have gone by the board.  Still it is a challenge and am slowly learning by trial and error, as I imagine most people do here.  I look forward to making new friends and learning lots of new tips from you seasoned people out there.  Have already found many helpful hints.  Still the sun has shone today, for the first time in ages and I have enjoyed a bit of weeding.
Cheers
Suzy

[Campo Girl]

Hola Suzy

Good to meet you and thanks for the compliments on the forum, we look forward to seeing images of your garden and learning what you are growing.

I have upgraded your membership as you don´t look or sound like a spammer to me, we had to tighten security to prevent them from annoying us

Now you can edit your profile, create new threads and add images to your post

Simone

[Suzy]

Hi Simone
Thanks for your welcome and upgrade.  It is good to know that you take internet security seriously, spammers are an absolute pain.  Will take some pics of the garden soon.  It mostly consists of osteopermums, which I have just clipped back today, in between showers [I could only grow these as risky annuals in pots in my Cheshire garden so they are an absolute delight here] and felicias which do very well, they have been flowering their little hearts out all winter, it has been a shame to cut them back but suspect they would get very leggy if I didn't.  Also have marguerites which are still flowering, not too sure if I should cut them back as they are quite woody at the base.  Unfortunately with all the rain everything is just too muddy to do anything much at the moment.  We have about 60 olive trees and 20 almond trees, the blossom is gorgeous at the moment, alas all too short lived.
Lots of other stuff to say about pets, garden, lifestyle over here but don't want to bore people ... much more interesting to listen and learn from you guys.
Cheers
Suzy

[Campo Girl]

You are not boring at all, I love learning about what other people are doing in their gardens and what their pets are up to, you carry on

Yeah I do take spam seriously and it became a real problem for a while but I seem to have a lid on it now, we are waiting for the new upgrade to come out of beta so we can have better security and posts that are moderated before release - and all that jazz. As long as we continue to fight it our forum will grow and become more about gardening than spammers

I lvoe osteopermums too and have a white and purple one in one of my bedding areas, I never succeeded with felicias so perhaps you can give me some tips about them?

Marguerites, not sure I know them either, will look them up, unless I know them by another name and have one in the garden already HA!

Where are you based? I am in Monda, a rather wet and soggy one at the moment, I have to say the strawberries are not looking too shabby and the raspberries are also fighting their corner, the onions and garlic is happy as larry, we have a slope on our garden and we have left many rocks in the soil to prevent top soil sliding, so I think we are lucky when we have heavy rains, our planst do not slide down the garden to the gate!

You should be able to post photos now and edit your profile too, if you have any problems, let me know and I can relax your status further

Simone x

[Suzy]

Hi Simone
Have looked up Marguerite and their official name is Chrysanthemm frutescens if that is any help.  They seem to thrive here, mine are yellow and they have been flowering all winter.  Cannot really help you with Felica as had never grown them before, just loved the blue daisy flowers on them.  My RHS book says they love it dry but they haven't had a lot of that lately and have been flowering all winter.  It was a shame to cut them back. They do seem to do stem rooting, so I could probably send you some cuttings with roots on if you want.   

You appear to grow loads of fruits and veggies.  I grow French Breakfast raddish, cos I love them.  However to be honest the stuff in our local markets is so cheap it's not worth the effort, plus our neighbours are so generous with their produce it's embarrassing !  I love to surprise them with flowers - when I showed our neighbours my daffodils, with pride, the first year we were here, they asked could we eat them!!!! 

Hey ho, have got lots to tell about our menagerie but will do that on the animal page.   So nice to talk.  Perhaps I am getting cabin fever not being out in the sun !!!
Cheers
Suzy

[Campo Girl]

No, that didn't help much! LOL I think a picture would help me better but it seems this is a new one on me

I have an RHS gardening book for growing my vegetables and fruit

I agree that fruit and veg is cheap so why bother growing, however, I enjoy it and get pleasure from it so I continue to grow, strawberries and raspberries, however, are not cheaper to buy than they are to grow and I have found many fruits like this so I am leaning towards fruit these days than vegetables, tomatoes are the same, so easy to grow so why not

I have never had much success with potatoes, carrots, cauliflowers and cabbages anyway so I think I will give up and stick to my raspberries, nectarines, strawberries, kiwis, oranges and lemons

The first year I tried carrots they were a failure because I planted them in too good a soil and they should have gone into my crappy ground with stones and sand so I know for the future but this season I have not planted much in terms of vegetables, the cabbages I did have, are taken by caterpillas and I have decided to let them eat away

We are strange gardeners like that, we share our food with the birds and insects - we must be nuts LOL!

Simone