Gardening on two continents

I've given myself an unecessary stress by trying to garden on two continents. Gardening always results in failure even if seemingly successful in that it never turns out as intended and the best bits  occur entirely by chance. I do not have green fingers although thankully Moha seems to and manages to keep my african plants alive. Nevertheless my original vision of the terrace with  bouganvillea climbing up the boudary walls mimicking the climbing roses of my fences at home have had to be abandoned. Bouganvillea really needs more rootspace than my pots provide and doubtless more assiduous watering than a nonresident gardener, even Moha, can provide in a 50+C summer heatwave. So we have turned the emphasis on the terrace to palmate/tree fern types and cactus.
The garden here in the UK suffers too and having spent the last several years trying to extend the flowering season I am now ruthlessly whittling it down to spring and summer. The vegetable patch is problematic too as we can only grow those plants that can be planted when home and forcing early by planting under galass is not really possible. We planted broad bean Aquaedulce Claudia before we left in October. Came home in December to prune roses and returned to prune the hibiscus hedge a second time and should have pruned roses in morocco but left it too late and they flowered. We have now come back to plant potatoes and eat purplesprouting broccoli, cabbage and spinach.

However the neglected flower garden is giving hope. The camellia is in full bloom.The dwarf narcissi are out and the main daffodils and tulips just starting. Primroses, pulmonaria and hebe give hopes for spring and the fatsia japonica is in full bloom. The grass needed cutting which is early this year and we will give it all a tidy up and get the veg in before going back to Taroudant . We will return in May in time for the roses here and to put in the summer bedding, but it will be expensive bedding as I will not have grown it from seed or grown on under glass. I am perusing catalogues which are of no use as they threaten late April/early May deliveries with plants dispatched "as soon as they are ready".Ah well , at least I will be eating broad beans.