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Ceratostigma plumbaginoides
Unsung hero of the dry garden. Ceratostigma plumbaginoides – the “blue-flowered leadwort” – is a native from Western China. It grows and grows, unfettered by heat or drought, and blooms from June through September in a very beautiful bright blue over somber green leaves. The leaves may also turn red in the fall. I had…
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Teucrium – Germander
Teucrium, also known as “germander”, is a large plant genus with about 250 species of flowering perennials and shrubs worldwide. Most of them are native to the Mediterranean region and thus are pretty heat- and drought-tolerant while also being frost hardy to -10℃ or more. They are simple to cultivate, have no great demands besides…
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Salvias for a Mediterranean Garden
My husband collects lighters. I collect garden plants. One the one hand I want to have as many different plants as possible and on the other hand as many interesting varieties of one kind of plant as possible. One of those kinds of plants are Salvias. Salvias are of course predestined for a Mediterranean garden…
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Lychnis coronaria
The friendly and well-behaved sister of Silene latifolia, Lychnis coronaria is found in the wild anywhere between Italy and the Himalayas. It grows on rocky slopes and in dappled woods and copses and in our Mediterranean garden it tolerates sun, heat and drought quite well. Along with the three bright pink plants I put in…
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Soil Retention and Stabilization
Our garden is located on the middle level of a terraced hillside and on its Northern edge bordered by a steep and almost straight slope of about 6-8 meters height. From what we can see, the hill seems to be made mostly of clay with a few firmer rocks in it. We do hope that…
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Trees for a Dry Mediterranean Garden
When we re-did our garden layout in the winter of 2023/2024, the goal was to turn the wide open vegetable and flower garden, where everything burned up in the summer, into a “park garden” with lots of shade trees. I researched a lot and made up a nice little shortlist of more or less drought-tolerant…