My Global Garden

Mediterranean plants - for rain or shine?

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Kew Gardens planted The Mediterranean Garden in 2007 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 2007/2008 and are simply loving the mercury busting temperatures of 2009. http://www.kew.org/medsummer/mediterranean/index.htm The native wild [...]

The uncertain future for UK gardens

Thursday, January 29, 2009

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We may be experiencing an artic winter at the moment but this extract from an article published on the Independent online newspaper on Monday, 26 January 2009 provides an excellent reality check for what climate change could mean for UK gardeners in the future. In 1992, Tom Clarke became an apprentice gardener with [...]

Mediterranean Scene

Saturday, April 12, 2008

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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 [...]