We've been away for 2 weeks, our neighbours have been helping themselves to the tomatoes.
I expect our local neighbourhood squirrel has been enjoying the freedom of the garden with the cat on restricted access to the outside with the house sitter working different hours to me and Peter not being around all day to answer to her every need.
We did do quite a bit of work in the front garden before we went away, mainly weeding and shifting the soil from the back garden to finish levelling off the front.
We had been watering the front with the washing up water, whilst we haven't been on a hose pipe ban we have been conserving water. It'll be interesting to see how the garden has been doing and by the time this post is published on the 21st, we'll be back home and the UK should have had some rain.
It's strange seeing plants that grow in both climates. The UK and where we've been holidaying in Crete. Our fig tree has fruited for several years and the fruits are lovely. It's taking its time to grow and we don't do anything with it in the winter, no cover. it's on a south facing wall.
We've also got grapes growing, but again the vine is small and the grapes are also tiny.
We have an Olive tree also, which is in a pot and has sadly never had an olive on it, but I'm looking at changing that this year and inviting time into the tree.
But the one thing I can't grow in the UK due tot he climate, that is everywhere over here in Crete and over most of the Mediterranean and we had an abundance of in our garden in Dubai, is the Bougainvillaea.
I have a small plant that has been thriving in the garden during the heatwave in the UK, that I'm going I've managed to get back to in time now the temperatures have dropped and I can keep it alive in the back room throughout the rest of the year.
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