Madeira 2026

[charlie]

Only just arrived, good newd re the new ees border checks, it was acyually a lot quicker than its ever been before!

Todays walk yeilded somethng i didnt recognise

[Chad]

Japanese persimmon, Diospyros kaki?

[charlie]

Thanks Chad

Some pictures from today

20261003_131844 by charliepridham, on Flickr

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That's all for today, glass of madeira beckons

[MartinNicklin]

I always think those big Aristolochia flowers look like something to be discarded following an operation to remove a large growth.
The Tibouchina is lovely (assuming it is still so called). Do you know if that utterly magnificent grandiflora (not grandifolia) is still alive near the caves?
What is that lovely pink climber? My device is not allowing me to click on the pictures to expand them.

[charlie]

I am with you on the dutchumans pipes to me they stink! Anyway the snails have made sure none that I have been given over the years have survived long enough to offend my nose!

I think I know the tibouchina you mean and yes it's still there, I can't see a pink flowered climber, did you mean the last picture?

[charlie]

Stroll down to funchal through the park today something we haven't done for 7 years!

20261004_112505 by charliepridham, on Flickr

20261004_113111 by charliepridham, on Flickr

The new sea front built in 2012 after the floods has really come on

20261004_114856 by charliepridham, on Flickr

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[Paul S]

Is that giant leaning Yucca filifera still there, Charlie?

[charlie]

Yes it is, but notfor much longer I fear!