Orange house

[professor]

Hello Maribel, I know I'm too late for this, but wanted you to see my sort of milk chocolate coloured wall with the white bougainvillea on it. It made me think of your orangy house & all I could imagine was cream or white roses growing on it. I liked the colour by the way!

Isn't it funny how this forum keeps referring to various foods in connection with plants and roses? I never would have described our garden wall in this way - until writing this posting!

Roma

[Maribel]

hello Roma,
Those bouganvillas are really beautiful, thank you for the pictures. Especially the white one, hard to believe it's such a young plant, it looks very vigorous. White bouganvillas aren't that common are they? The wall it's growing on looks quite a lot like the colour of my house, actually, though perhaps a BIT more muted .. :), it really is a good combination, very fresh-looking. So I think you're right that white/cream are good with orangey tones. I've been thinking more of bright colours as I have a lot of spring tulips planted in front of the house in bright orange and red, as well as a Mutabilis in a pot, the whole effect gives a lot of life to the front garden. Well the great thing about roses is they can be MOVED if we fancy a change of scheme... I hope we all have good chiropractors come autumn - lots of musical roses and hole-digging ahead!
have a lovely evening
Maribel
BTW I'm gob-smacked at the Madeiran government's plant initiatives, I never heard of anything like such service. If they are like that in all departments then you are very lucky indeed!
pps food and roses - see thread on roses and choice, perhaps there is a master plot linking all these things after all ..

[Britta]

Hi Roma,
I love those bouganvillas. Somehow to me they are THE flowers of sunshine and summer. I never managed to grow them successfully though.
Food and roses: The fragrance often enough makes your mouth water, doesnt it? The only other thing that does it is either drink or food. Propably this is why we love roses ;)
Britta

[professor]

Hello Maribel and Britta

Glad you liked the bougainvilleas. The white one is a real star; we have very strong winds here sometimes up to 120km and the poor thing has been smashed and broken several times during its growth. It just seems to make it grow stronger and more resistant! When we despair, up it pops, overnight it seems.

As for the Madeiran government subsidising domestic fruit growing - it's great isn't it, one of the better initiatives although many people don't know about it; nothing is ever advertised and the island seems to operate by word of mouth. It probably comes out of EU funding, so thank you to all our European neighbours. However, the European money pot now appears to be empty and some funding diverted to the Azores and new EU members, so thankfully no more new motorways or road tunnels, or apartment buildings here ....... (many remain empty). They were desperately needed, but enough is enough!

Sorry, getting off the subject!

Roma