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Our gardens, a month-by-month pictorial diary of what's looking good now => Our Gardens => Topic started by: KatG on April 15, 2013, 03:28:00 PM
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Some photos of my garden, taken in March and April.
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Gorgeous, Katerina - and the Felicia is such a wonderfully cheerful plant, isn't it!
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Yes, and we've just had heavy rain so everything will be refreshed after a dry spell.
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Really lovely photos Katerina and your paths are inviting.
I want to see what is out of shot. ;D More photos please.
Daisy :)
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Thanks. Here are some more. Sadly the Echium has gone over now.
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Lovely pictures again, Katerina!
Is your gravel deep enough to prevent or at least discourage unwanted weed growth?
(And the distant background looks very familiar - is that Mt Profitis Ilias in the third picture, and in the last is that the headland that protects Kitries on its far side?)
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In the entrance area the top layer of gravel is about 5 cm deep over a 20 cm layer of sandstone spoil, excavated from the lower floor of the house. This was spread over the existing substrate, which in one area was mainly bedrock, so there is very little weed growth. Elsewhere the gravel was laid over Mipex membrane on soil.
Yes, that's Profitis Ilias, well spotted. The last picture is taken looking due west - it's Koroni you can see.
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Beautiful!!! I wish I had even a bit of your design talent...
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Oooh - very nice Katerina, and nicely photographed. Some good execution of good concepts. Bravo. //Mike
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Beautiful design. So hard to get that harmonious yet informal feel but this is perfect...
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Thank you all. Nice to have such positive feedback. Here are a some photos taken before work began on the garden.
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Hi Katerina, having just seen your garden I have just come across this posting and it is lovely to see it again especially with the Echium in flower. The before pics are also very interesting. I think it worth mentioning that Katerina also has some native plants amongst the plantings including Euphorbia characias ssp. wulfenii, poppies, probably Papaver rhoeas and what I believe to be Stachys canescens a Messenian endemic.
Here's a picture of the Stachys canescens growing outside the front door.
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The finished garden was impressive enough
But when we see what you created it from
"Hats off" well done Katerina, amazing
;D
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John, it's a shame you missed the Echium, they were spectacular. Hidden in the Stachys was a clump of Allium neapolitanum - very pretty, but they've gone over now. Some other natives: Verbascum, Eurphorbia rigida, Borago officinalis, Phlomis cretica, Arbutus, Cotinus and quite a few more.
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Flowering now.
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Lovely to see the first violets of the year!
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Yes, especially as I didn't plant them there. I thought I had lost them but apparently they just migrated from their original spot.
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Although I can't match the excellence of Katerina's plantings I find this approach to the front of our house quite cheery on a bright, cold winter's day.
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Unusual and attractive mix of succulents and non-succulents!