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RE: Small pleasures in life - Winter walk & Hot cup of tea
So it is spring for you already? Wow! Here's my guess on the row of plants. 1 = some kind of acacia tree, 2 and 3 = some Portulaca, 4 = a Gorse of some kind. Enjoy your spring and I hope you can get outdoors a lot as the spring moves forward!
It's still winter, we don't have snow only cold and rain! You are right with two of the plants, thanks for giving it a try! 1 - Acacia longifolia, 2 - Corema album, 3 - Halimium calycinum and 4 - Ulex minor (gorse, like you said)!! Spring is much better than this and we have much more flowers :)
I'll take that success rate for a quiz on plants in Portugal, lol. I will look into the Corema and Halimium species. I see that the
CoremaHalimium is recommended for the US Pacific Northwest as a great shrub in our Mediterranean climate. And I see theHalimiumCorema berries are supposed to be edible. I'll do more research on it, of course, but it's always fun to find another food plant! Thanks! Happy "still winter"!Note: Comment edited because I mixed up the names that I meant in each sentence.
Yes, south Portugal has Mediterranean climate. Corema berries are edible, very sweet. I don't know about Halimium. I should not advice plant introductions...because they can be harmful there. I know of Ammophila arenaria that is native here in our sand dunes and one of the most problematic invasive weeds of coastal California.
My mistake -- it's the Corema berries that I meant in my comment about having edible berries -- that's how misinformation starts , isn't it! I'll add an edit to that comment so there's not any chance for someone to get a wrong impression.
I do check whether a plant is on any invasive plant lists before I plant it. And I prefer seeds or bareroot planting, because so many troubles can tag along in the soil from nurseries. The last thing our natural lands need are more invasives! =8O