The Mediterranean Garden.

Three age ago I made my secret garden surrounded by a treillage to grow fragrant plants like pink wine , jasmine , honeysuckle and trachelospermum . At first it did n’t look very privy and everybody asked me what I was go to do with it , which was admonish as I had already done it .

Now at last it is how I planned it and is a lovely place to sit down .

The honeysuckle isLonicera periclymenum‘Scentsation ’ . It smells wonderful . The climb on the arches is ‘ Phyllis Bide ’ which is a very pretty rambler which smells gorgeous and unlike other rambler go along right on bloom .

Cistus x purpureus‘Alan Fradd’

Last year as I bonk having a newfangled project I decided to make a Mediterranean garden . There is nothing so much merriment in the garden as be after a raw area . I thought my secret garden see a routine lost sitting in the middle of the lawn with nothing to drop anchor it to the rest of the garden . So now you walk under the rose archway into a Mediterranean garden . To my surprisal I find a adorable former grape vine vine at the local supermarket . When I went home and told my adorable piano player about it he straightaway said‘Come on , have ’s go and get it’ . And as it was the only one we jump in the car and rushed back . After planting it I finger quite Mediterranean . It ’s such a pretty shape and not at all what you bear to find when you go to buy a pint of Milk River and some potatoes . Now what I needed was a 2000 yr - sometime olive tree . I had to make do with this one ; it is quite pretty and did n’t break the bank .

I used willow tree masking behind the garden to make a feeling of intimacy . It was a ignominy to hide out the trunk of the silver birch but beyond them is a balefire and general grot area . In any compositor’s case I want to enclose it . It is very sheltered down here and a real solar trap . I did n’t dig up the sward ; I had get wind my lesson after digging up lawns in my front garden and for the winter garden . This clip I used a membrane and covered it with gravel .

I had fun choosing the plants . Some of them blossom in later summer so I will show you another time . Looking good right now is a adorable genus Cistus with large white peak with a maroon splodge . It is calledCistus x purpureus‘Alan Fradd ’ .

Cistus x purpureus‘Alan Fradd’

Cistus x purpureus‘Alan Fradd ’

Also looking good are the alliums I establish . The white philadelphus on the rightfulness is a overnice summary one with threefold flowers called ‘ Snowbelle ’

Of course there have to be lavenders . This one isLavendula stoechas . Behind it is the gorgeous silky , silver foliage ofSenecio candicans‘Angel Wings ’ I was told that it was a pinnace perennial when I bought it last year , but it came through the wintertime very well with just a moment of fleece to protect it . I also buy a perennial antirrhinum last year which is a turn tender but gentle from clipping . It spent the wintertime in the glasshouse and now it has been released into the garden it has adjudicate to climb the fence . It is calledAntirrhinum‘Pretty in Pink ’

Antirrhinum‘Pretty in Pink ’

Obviously for a Mediterranean garden you need plants that the bee enjoy . As well as the lavender and alliums they are enjoying the pretty little calamintha that I have ever seen . It is calledCalamintha grandiflora‘Elfin Purple ’ .

Calamintha grandiflora ‘ Elfin Purple ’

You do n’t have to enter the Mediterranean through the secret garden there is another path alongside it .

This is the view looking back towards the secret garden .

Long lists of plants are a flake tedious so I will finish with a few word-painting and we can number and have another look by and by in the summer .

51 Responses toThe Mediterranean Garden.

Oh how mythologic Chloris and a Mediterranean garden seems so meet for your cervix of the woods . The planting must give much pleasure to bee and butterflies too . I love the area around your olive tree diagram . What is the variegate plant near to those ginormous Allium ?

It ’s marvelous ! And it connects beautifully with your mysterious Garden . I love crushed rock surfaces but I ’m untrusting of using them here as the crushed rock contemplate heat and our summer are all too toughened on plants as it is . Senecio ‘ Angel Wings ’ is one of my new favorites but mine is currently in a pot until I assess just how much summer Lord’s Day photograph it can take . I did a double take when I saw your Symphyandra , initially mistaking it for a South African plant I acquire , which has a very similar flower and growth habit , Wahlenbergia ‘ Blue Cloud ’ . I look onward to seeing more of the new garden in future posts .

Oh my goodness ! Everything about this is unadulterated . The secret garden and the Mediterranean garden look fabulous , and you ’ve selected great plant to make them function . One of the gardens we confab during the Garden Bloggers ’ Fling in Austin use a similar proficiency , create garden “ rooms . ” I eff it !