Today I saw

[veggiechicken]

If you eat dried chestnuts - they were really cheap compared to here.
Seeds of any interesting fruit or veg are always welcome

[julesapple]

I don't live in Madiera.

So easy to confuse Cardiff with Madeira though........

[bearded bloke]

We got a bit "out of sync" for a post or two Jules

Anyone fancy a go at castor oil plant ? I reckon there will be seeds to be collected next week.

Will check out seed packets at the market & maybe some of the hardware shops in town,will be "up & down" for a week or so

[binley100]

BB there's a lovely seed shop in the old town tucked between two restaurants and goes through from one road to another .....lady chucked in some extra packets for me. Hope you're gonna splash out and take your good lady to Mozart's , fantastic food and even more fantastic toilets
Watch it in the farmers market , some of them are shysters but I'm sure you know that..

[bearded bloke]

Ere VC,now you got the hang of gardening on several layers how do you fancy trying .....




Or .......





or even the inversion,gardening here ..........




at the foot of ...........





where even the trees have pretty flowers

[veggiechicken]

A doddle, BB! Though the 4th photo ? Cabo Girao (or something) is giving me vertigo just looking at it. I remember hearing that the cows live in little cowhouses on the side of these cliffs and they have to blindfold them when they move them, or they're too scared to walk. I know the feeling!!

[bearded bloke]

BB there's a lovely seed shop in the old town tucked between two restaurants and goes through from one road to another .....lady chucked in some extra packets for me. Hope you're gonna splash out and take your good lady to Mozart's , fantastic food and even more fantastic toilets
Watch it in the farmers market , some of them are shysters but I'm sure you know that..

Have you got an address or pic of the shop please Bins,not been to Mozart's will mention it to herself but we normally have a snack at our favourite near the foot of the cable car then evening meal at fav on the marina,we were going into Churchill's at Camaro de Lobos today but it was closed

[bearded bloke]

Though the 4th photo ? Cabo Girao

Yep thats the one VC,I got a pic somewher I took from the top 20+ years ago,tis a looooooooong way down

[veggiechicken]

Its all coming back, BB and it must be 20 years since I was there. One year we went over to Porto Santo for a few days - so quiet in comparison and, by coincidence, I came across a print of the island here today and decided that it could go.
There was a photography museum in Madeira, all the old photos that had been taken of islanders - in a tiny little shop. Going to goggle it now -see if it still exists

Yes Here it is http://www.madeira-island.com/museum...hy_museum.html

[binley100]

Have you got an address or pic of the shop please Bins,not been to Mozart's will mention it to herself but we normally have a snack at our favourite near the foot of the cable car then evening meal at fav on the marina,we were going into Churchill's at Camaro de Lobos today but it was closed

Churchills was closed when we went as well.........Shop directions .......start at cble car on the main road with your back to the sea, turn right and follow road into old town, its on that road before you get to the fishermans church , tucked in between two restaurants...just looks like a doorway no big shop window...We never ate at the marina we tried all the places in the old town ..
Mozarts is a set menu with unlimited booze ,about five courses. Thursday night was chefs night and plenty of fish but you need to book....

[binley100]

oh and have you spotted the allotments by the main road on the way into Funchal .......we took photos from the cable car .

[bearded bloke]

Cheers VC will give that a looking at

Cheers Bin's should be able to find that the allotments have been there a long time but were VERY rundown,but as they were severely damaged in the floods (about 4 years ago) they have had a new lease of life with modern fencing & all those nice sheds looks very upbeat now

[binley100]

Don't know if all the art work was there in the old town when you were there last BB but soome of it is pretty amazing.........gonna be nosey now and ask where you're staying

[bearded bloke]

We are out of the town Bins just past the lido on the way to Praia Formosa


Have found white courgette seeds also white pumpkin seeds


Found a kapok tree with ripe seed pods,just gotta figure out how to get to them

[binley100]

Does the open top bus go past them .........

You're staying the other end to where we were then .....