Here are some pictures I took yesterday in the garden. You can see the two stray dogs that Alma found on the road. They stayed overnight in the kitchen and were then returned to some people down the hill. Very nice dogs, but the barking!
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A Bad Guide 
Lovely. For us it’s being a very fine year for roses. The winter did claim a cistus, alas.
I lost all my lavender in the winter. I don’t know why now, suddenly.
¡Guau! [Wow!]
Amazing pictures! The black snail is fantastic and I love all these (to me) exotic flowers
¡Guau! [Wow!]
Thank you for that. It looks really good.
And thanks for the comment. Things have really dropped off here. I don’t know what happened to all the people. I like the little black snail too. It’s a very small one, not the usual French, eating type that we have elsewhere on the hacienda.
Here is more information than you need or want, probably:
The third-from-bottom picture, the violet pompon, is just the flower from a chives (cebollino?) plant – the thin green onion-flavour stalks that you chop up and put in salad. The one below is a clematis, but I’ve forgotten which one. Above that are some of our poppies (papaverales, I’m sure you know that one). The little yellow dots are buttercups, Ranunculus together with daisies (margarita).
The violet & pink wildflower at the top has been giving me a hard time with translation. It seems to be, more or less, this in Spanish. It’s a kind of geranium called storkenebb (I think it’s called cranesbill in England, a ‘hardy geranium’, not storksbill which is also a geranium but a pelargonium). There’s one local to this immediate area called Asker Storkenebb.
Than you, very much, Crown, I do wanted this information =)
I cant believe that this wonderful flower is from a chives plant, is so beautiful! In Argentina we use the French name “ciboulette” but also “cebollín”
I love the poppies, too. I have always read about them in English texts but I think I’ve never seen one properly (or paying attention which is the same). It’s wonderful how the bottom part of it (when the flower is still closed) appears to be eyelashes, don’t you think?
The ciboulette flower is very similar to garlic or onion flowers (onion flowers are much bigger), since all those plants belong to the same family. Onion flowers look spectabular, big and at the end of a tall stem.
I can’t believe that the solstice is past already, here I feel that we have barely started spring. Our spring is very short, winter drags on so long, then all the plants “spring” to life in a short time. The city is utterly transformed when the trees are finally in leaf.
The pink poppies in AJP’s garden are not the common type of wild European (and English) poppy. These are bigger than the wild ones too.
Wild poppies (in French coquelicots) are smaller and a very bright red, and when you look inside the flower the bottom of each petal is a deep black. They grow very well in wheat fields. They don’t do well once cut: if you pick some on a roadside next to a wheat field they get wrinkled and limp very soon and when you get home and try to put them in a vase they don’t revive like some other flowers.
I forgot to mention that in the US there is the wild California poppy which is quite small, with an orangey yellow flower.
Our poppies are shrimp-coloured. I know this because we were eating shrimp in the garden yesterday and Dyveke held one up for us to compare. You’re right, they aren’t like the ones you see growing in a field of corn. They’re much bigger and paler. Lovely in different way. Do you know the pale blue ones, Meconopsis? You can have them in Canada.
I hadn’t noticed the eyelashes before you mentioned it, Julia. I rushed out to look, and of course they all have them. I wonder why.
We have California poppies. Ours are not very small. But they are in a place where many things grow bigger than they should. Some enchantment, no doubt.
“cranes’ bills” – no idea what book we found that name in…we call “the Caroline flowers” because they match her eyes and we took pictures of her in flowery forests when she was a baby. I suppose they are blue here for litmus-test reasons. Slowly (who looks things up?) I have “deduced” that they get their name from their post-bloom stage, when the seed-pod develops a long crane’s-bill-like narrow cone…
Aww….the Caroline flowers. (I believe there are some “caroline flowers” which are yellow, and do not match caroline’s eyes.)
a version is here http://www.fotolog.com/catanea/350000000000010594/