tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7797056195068621352011-11-28T02:12:50.113+01:00For anyone wanting to live on the Costa Blanca, an area of warm winters when the rain comes, and hot, dry summers - you may get some idea of the experience from the information here. For info about the sale please contact the owner at ....... vip13h@gmail.comHalvenonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07067722445845819187noreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-779705619506862135.post-48021690109923218922008-12-04T06:31:00.009+01:002010-04-06T10:40:20.130+02:00

The Yucca plant in flower in March this year to the south of the Garden in the Sky. In the photo BELOW is another March event, the ice-plant on the western boundary. The strong colour of the flowers splashed over an otherwise featureless areas is very welcome. The ice plant in gardens on the fringes of Los Angeles helped to dilute the effect of the brush fires of recent years because of its

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The background to this parable. The breakdown of the financial systems in the USA and Europe in 2008. Starting with the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September, 2008   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_of_Lehman_Brothers and leading to disasters such as the failure of the Royal Bank of Scotland and other banks in UK. As a result the UK Government by guaranteeing their solvency made a

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It is expected every autumn. It may not always come, but it has done the last two years.The threatening sky is awesome. Over the pale purple bignonia flowers particularly. It is their best time just at the end of the summer. After continual rain for a couple of days even the hose-pipe is embarrassed when the pummeling downpour pauses. It wants to retreat to its base on the wall out of sight.Soon

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Readers were invited to explain why a folding chair was in an unusual place - shown in a photo in the previous blog. (To see it click on September in the column to the right, then October to return here) I have to say how impressed I was by the range and quality of the response.62.5 % of the answers mentioned wind in one way or another. Usually expressed with gust-o!Some 25% of the answers

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Can you deduce or guess why it is there, lying recklessly or positioned carefully on the ivy, bignonia, honeysuckle and vine of the garden in the sky?(See the blog 'Looking Around', 5th August, 2008 for explanation of the 'garden in the sky').Send your solution to the address below:halvenon@englishwordhelp.comThe chair, by the way, is the lightweight, collapsible type used for putting in the car

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I was browsing palm tree specimens along with my wife, Flora, (I must be Fauna) in a garden centre one hot afternoon about ten years ago. We had lots of space still to fill in our almost virgin garden. We met another couple doing the same and found in conversation that they had an unwanted wee Washingtonia (she was a Scot) and if we cared to go and dig it out of their garden we could

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The patio, on the lower terrace of the site.The lower terrace has a patio outside the door leading into the apartment under the main house. In the foreground of the photo showing this door are the two stems of a yucca planted 12 years ago at about one metre high, and now grown to three metres. To the left of the yucca you can see a Phoenix Canariensis (Canary Island Palm) - again only about a

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I managed to restore some of the dry stone wall structure of the original terraces after the excavating machinery had left the site. In the photo you can see the lower stones are more firmly bonded that the ones I added on top. This is a shady spot, early evening in July. To the right is a view under the apricot tree across the lower level of the garden. There is a small lemon tree in the

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In the photo of the village opposite our house you can see the horizontal lines of the terraced hillside - between the two roads. The earliest terraces are very ancient indeed, built by slaves and peasants centuries ago. The people who lived here in earlier times had to make the best use of the mountainous land available to grow their crops. The hillsides were therefore worked into areas of

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The main room of the villa looks out on to this terrace with pool and plants. The leaves on the right in the foreground are of a carob tree, algarrobo in Spanish. This particular carob is only about 14 years old. It shades the cook at the built-in barbecue in the left foreground. And the feature has other uses too - storage! I think barbecues are a disastrous method of cooking but can be fun

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