An Ordinary "Flower" Walk .:. Wednesday Walk
After the great Portugal trip series (you can find links to all 10 posts in that one), it is hard to get back to writing these "ordinary" walk posts from my neighborhood... I mean, I do live in a beautiful area and there are a lot of great sights around, but it's a different "feeling" when you are exploring the unknown territory... 😃 So, it will be hard to beat that Portugal series, but the life goes on... until the next big trip... Until then, I will show you my "living area"...
As I live at the "end" of the urban part of my town, I don't need to walk a lot to go into the "wild"... It's not the wild per se, but it is out of the ordinary streets that you can see in cities...
The plant that you see on the left in the image above (or right above) is oleander... I know that my mother was trying to grow it in Eastern Europe and she was unsuccessful to do it... and here, it grows as a plague... I saw in some place that they cut the tree (bush) almost near to the roots and it grow 2 meters in 2-3 months... lol...
I knew the story about these irrigation canals, but I forgot when they were built, but, I know that there is a whole network that brings water from the mountains to the sea... and it goes zig-zag through gardens and between properties... As that's a kind of "no man's land", I like to follow it... 😃
...right and left... along the old church... They call them "ermitas" and they are built mainly for the neighborhood, which means that inside them, maybe 5-10 people can fit... It is like a living room...
The part that is ruined was probably just an attachment to the church... As the church itself is in good shape...
These are the flowers of the medlar tree... I took this walk maybe a month ago (or a bit more) and they were like this... At these moments, you can already eat fruits from the tree! It's amazing how fast it grows!
Just a short look into the civilization as I had to pass over the regional road to get to the other side...
This is a small, unfortunate restaurant as it changed the owner at least 3-4 times (that I know), but it never succeed to survive... It looks cute, and the interior is also great, but the problem is the bad location... 😞 It is for sale (again), and I hope that the new owner will have more luck than the previous ones...
... already mentioned the oleander flower...
I don't like too much to go up and down, but this was just a short part so I have survived... 😂
... views at the mountain behind me as I was going back home, toward the sea...
This should be the flower Bougainvillea if my Google search doesn't lie... It could be white as in these photos, but also in pink/purple/red colors too... Also, if you scroll back up, you will find them in yellow color, but those are already dried flowers... They also like this climate and grow like crazy without too much hassling around...
What kind of walk would this be if I didn't take any photos of oranges? They are the most popular tree in this area... After oranges, we have a lot of olive trees, almonds, lemons, and of course, already mentioned medlar...
This one is one of my favorite flowers... Chalice cup vine has flowers that are sized like a palm, or maybe a bit bigger... It looks almost like it is made of plastic... So surreal... :)
And here we are... in the last photo which is very near my apartment... I have to pass back along the small church and that narrow passage and I'm home... Before that, let's enjoy these spectacular views at this "lonely" house with medlar trees around and palm trees close to it... Btw, 100 years ago, this whole area was covered in orange trees with only a couple of houses... and to "find" their home, farmers would plant a high palm tree next to the house so that they could find the way back home...
Another curiosity... Do you see that "weird" tree on the right side (left to two palm trees)? I forgot the name of it, but locals say that it was imported from North America as it had a straight trunk and it was used to make ships!
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What was that in Russia,I remember you saying everyone calls you Russian!
Bougainvillaea I can never seem to spell it right I used to see mostly in pink
Still a good walk, whatever is on our doorstep is not on someone else's doorstep!
Heheeh... I lived in a small town in Serbia, near the Hungarian border...
Yeah, most of those Bougainvillaea are pink... that's why these white got my attention... :)
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Ah Serbia, well they are very pro Russia. Enough of that, pink yes and thorny if I remember, well spotted with the white, they do look different.
Why the building behind the church was demolished, is there any specific reason you know of ?
I don't think so... I suppose it was built later, from some "cheaper" material, so it didn't survive the test of time... 😃
In every places, there are different plants that grow. Like here in our place, a lot of fruit trees are growing and when we go to Kapatagan, another place I posted last week I think, they grows a lot of vegetables but fruit trees didn't succeed in their area. We found some fruit trees there but it never gave fruits.
About that restaurant, how sad that many business man are trying to use that but the location is not that good. Food business is the number one best business but location is also the number one to consider. It will go along with the target market.
I agree with you about the plants... Sometimes, they just can't grow in a different climate... It's not just water, and sun, but very often the air humidity itself...
Very often it doesn't count that the food is great if the place is out of sight... :(
Yes, so we just need to enjoy the plants available and learn to share or barter or nowadays sell to others and buy from others too so we could taste different fruits.
Yes, location is very important in a food business too.
Thanks for joining the Wednesday Walk, its my pleasure to host it and see all the posts each week from all around the world, including yours, if you have time visit some of the other walks this week there are so many interesting ones
Well, this isn't my first post in this community and I really enjoy reading people's stories about their walks!
Bougainvillea, oleander and tecoma plants also survive well in our area. They are almost everywhere here and blooming profusely these days. I also made a post few days back of my orange trumpet vine and how it has grown so vigorously that it has arrived at my rooftop garden in just two years time.
Flowers are most beautiful in spring and I love to photograph them and share their beauty with others... I was doing that more often in the past when I was doing my Actifit posts, but lately, I don't have that much time to create an additional post per day...
Have u enjoyed the beautiful views of my orange trumpet vine? I wanna hear your feedback about it.
Your post is muted in the community where you posted... You should really contact community leaders and fix those issues... ;)
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Thanks for sharing the photos. Both the Oleander and Bougainvillea can be grown in my area but lately we have had some very strong freezes in the last two winters that killed off the ones we had planted out doors. Take care.
I suppose for that reason (cold) my mother didn't have success with them... Where she lives is much colder and it looks that Oleander can't support the cold that well... She was bringing the plants inside the house, but still... it's not the same...
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BEERKING.Boungainvillea is one of the flowers I love so much. I think it goes very well at the enterance of a house, commonly at the outer door.
Yes, it does go great as a fence, or at the entrance... Btw, when you said that, I noticed that there is another one in this gallery... Where I photographed the small restaurant! It's not a white one, but rather pink...
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In my area most of these beautiful flowers don't survive,but just a little rain fall and a twink of an eye unwanted and fruitless grasses will full every where,
I love you place there is really alot of beautiful flowers available
Yeah... Rain can make miracles! Here is also very dry in summer and everything gets burned by the sun... So, I'm trying to enjoy this environment before summer hits... :)