A Coastal stroll - Puerto Cruz + ID's?

[charlie]

One you can do in sandals!

You start off in the town and head east

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There is an attractive series of gardens at this side of town which we only went across the edge of but some interesting stuff

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This looked useful! Young Michael Ben from the old forum has one his grandad used on Madeira in his garden

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Heading off past the Playa jardin or the rather aptly named "garden beach"

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I think one of my favourite things has to be the Aloes

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The palms seem to love this coastal region

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Lots of this double oxalis, the single is everywhere as a weed but this appears to suggest that the plants along this walk have been tarted up for us tourists!

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Anyone know what this is? felt like Goose Grass

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Anyone know this? first picture is the flowers and the second the leaves, it was over a garden wall so is probably not native

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Someone had made a real effort here

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There is a little cafe at the end while you wait for a bus back, all very civilized.

[Chad]

'Anyone know what this is? felt like Goose Grass'

Fagonia cretica

'Anyone know this? first picture is the flowers and the second the leaves, it was over a garden wall so is probably not native.'

You are having a laugh! Without scale, some description of habit and a picture of an open flower your only hope is that someone actually does 'know' it.

In medicine we call it an 'Aunt Sally'. A condition that you recognise because Aunt Sally had it, but is difficult to explain why you recognise it; it just is.

Chad.

[charlie]

I will try on the edge and see if anyone from the more tropical areas grows it, I was certainly left without a clue, but I do have a couple of seeds so would be good to know where it is on the impossibility scale :)