Camellia japonicaA stamp issued by Poland in 1964
We have seen many Camellia plants growing in Spain; these two were in the courtyard of the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum in Madrid
Janice Thompson writes in THE MEDITERRANEAN GARDEN, issue number 91, in A PATH – EVENTUALLY ”The third space is designed to accommodate a pot which can be changed from time to time with different plants.”
I thought a small Camellia might look good in her path
There seems to be a need of gardeners to make paths using recycled materials. I remember my father and I when I was ten going out in the dead of night, there is no dead of night in the summer in north east England , with the wheel barrow to collect old broken bricks from a piece of waste land to make a garden path. Then again when I was twenty we looked for pieces of local sandstone to make a rockery in our new garden, The new housing estate was built on farmland and there were pieces of sandstone scattered around after the walls surrounding the fields had been destroyed. In fact we were rather late as most of the stones had been ‘saved’, there was many a rock garden on our street.
Here is the link for you to read about the famous pavements of Pikionis, the architect entrusted with the remodeling of the Acropolis area and access to Philopappou Hill
http://www.greece-is.com/dimitris-pikionis-the-man-who-shaped-the-acropolis-landscape/Unfortunately I don’t have a photo of these paths in Athens but I do have a photo of the marble floor of the Basilica of Lechaion
A photo of a pavement in Kousadasi with a ‘blue mati; surrounded by broken tiles
and a photo of a path a friend of mine made in her kitchen garden
After preparing this post an account of the garden and the A PATH - EVENTUALLY turned up on the MGS website
http://www.mediterraneangardensociety.org/central.html