Archive for the Tag 'Mediterranean plants'

Summer returns - and so do I!

An amazing Morning Glory in the sunshine to welcome you back to my blog!
Thanks to everyone who has been posting encouraging messages about my Hampton Court and Eco Gardening Secrets from Africa stories - much appreciated. Comments from Dagny, Eric Bronson, Willem Von Cotthem and Intercontinental Gardener now up-loaded. Please do keep these [...]

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Mediterranean plants - for rain or shine?

Kew Gardens planted The Mediterranean Garden last year to educate and encourage gardeners to think about the wide range of drought loving plants that will survive our hotter summers. The plants are well established despite the record summer rainfall of 2007. http://www.kew.org/medsummer/mediterranean/index.htm

Normally, the native wild plants of the Mediterranean like dry conditions .The garden [...]

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Mediterranean Scene

Here are just a few flower pictures from my trip to Calabria in Italy.
The pink messembryanthemum are particularly good for underplanting. In the right hand picture they are used beneath some impressive architectural Agave plants - the dramatic spiky green leaves of the Agave provide a sharp contrast to the bright flowers .This [...]

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