Perennials

May 092014 0 Responses

Granada – The Alhambra & Generalife Gardens

Today was one of the highlights of our Spanish trip no doubt.   The famous Alhambra and Generalife gardens (the garden of the Architect).

Coming this far and to something so incredibly important we find it extremely worthwhile to pay a little more, take more time and enjoy the experience with the insight you can only really gain with a local guide.  There’s no way in the world I’m going to remember half of what we were told, but will manage to retain some I’m sure. We bought the book – as you do – it’s only the second one in three weeks so we are being restrained!

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May 022014 0 Responses

Traditional tuna fishing the Almadraba way

Today our plans were changed abruptly when the cooking class we were going to participate in was called off.  However not to miss out on a “foodie day” we drove down to the coast at Barbate where the tuna fishing season has just started.  Tuna is always so hard to get in NZ and really fresh tuna, more so.  The opportunity to try tuna fresh off the boat and caught in the Almadraba way was not to be missed. Read More…

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Apr 282014 0 Responses

A fleeting find

We found a wonderful patch of these baby iris whilst driving from Montejaque to Benaojan on the weekend.  I couldn’t believe it!  Out the window was this little flash of blue amongst the grass.  Phil didn’t believe me.  He thought it was another mass of Muscari.   Normally you’d be thrilled with a mass of Muscari, but Muscari has become “old hat”.

There were hundreds of them only a few inches high.  We went past the next day and they were “over”.  Can you believe it.  We were SO LUCKY.  Peter identified them not as Iris reticulata which is what they looked like to us, but Gymandriris sisyrinchium – was called Iris originally but has been reclassified….  it as a case of being in the right place at the right time.

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Apr 232014 0 Responses

In the mountains surrounding Zahara

We are spending three days in this wonderful White washed village which has been perched upon the mountain since Moorish times.  We are here to see the wildflowers and spent today visiting the most likely sites with naturalist Peter Jones.

What a day we have had finding, can you believe it a patch of WILD PEONIES growing under the Cork Oaks.  Peter knew just where to find them as he has been guiding here for the last 11 years. Read More…

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