The humidity of the last few days has taken its toll on me, as I forgot to mention two fantastic looking trees to the blog yesterday.
The first is of course the Jacaranda tree, or mimosifolia popular in many countries because of its beautiful pale blue lilic flowers that cover its branches in the early part of summer. Its also drought tolerant, once established it needs little or no water. Its not as rapid in growth as the trees mentioned earlier, but well worth planting one for the amazing mass of colour it delivers.
The other tree is the Chinaberry or bead tree or latin name Melia azedarach, this does grow rapidly and produces lilac purple fragrant clusters in spring a lovely tree for creating a shady place to sit. In winter bunches of pale yellow berries hang from the branches, which were once used to make rosary beads.
Back tomorrow with more gardening info from Villa care menorca, but now Im going to cool down in the sea.
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