Mediterranean Garden

Purpose

This is a demonstration garden. In this garden you will find plants and shrubs from all of the five Mediterranean Regions. These are: South Africa, California, USA, Chile, the Mediterranean Basin, South-Western Australia.

Many of the plants found in this garden are grown from seed or from cuttings. Private donations also augment the three garden beds found here. The garden incorporates a variety of drought tolerant and other plantings. The soil found in a Mediterranean garden is traditionally poor and gravelly. We have enhanced this look by adding broken shards or terra-cotta pottery and pebbles.

Features

This garden incorporates a variety of drought tolerant and other plants. The soil in this type of garden is traditionally poor and gravelly. We have endeavored to show this with use of different materials such as gravel, rocks and broken pottery.

Maintenance

Mulch is used in Spring and Autumn when readily available. Many of the more tender species found here must be lifted in the autumn and over-wintered in the poly houses. As we live “on the edge” of a Mediterranean garden, we encounter colder and wetter conditions than do our neighbours to the south. This provides a constant challenge for us.

History

The three beds that comprise the Mediterranean garden were once filled with roses and oriental poppies. The transformation began as a student project and the beds were planted with available materials. While some of these plants still remain, there has been a transition toward truer and rarer specimens.

Variety has been increased substantially. At the present time, there is a volunteer garden curator and two part-time assistants. There is no stipend or existing budget in place to maintain the three beds.

Plants:

Bed A	Bed B	Bed C
Atriplex halimus Acaena Aethionema grandiflora African daily Alchemilla mollis Brachyglottis (Sunshine) Cistus (Rock rose) Cistus (Shirley Smith) Cotula hispida (Silver cotula) Dierama (white) Echevaria Erysimum Eschschozia californica E. myrsinites E.wulfinii Genista aetnensis Lavendula: (var.beds) L.augustifolia ‘Dwarf Blue’ L.augstifiolia ‘English Lavender’ L.heterophylia ‘Goodwin Creek’ L. stoechas ‘Otto Quast’ L.x intermedia ‘Papilon’ L.x intemedia ‘Provence’ L. x intermedia ‘Grosso’ Meuhlembeckia Miscanthus ‘morninglight’* Nigella Olea europaea (Olive) Perovskia ‘Blue Spire’ Phlomis Santolina neopolitana Salvia argentea Sedum rupestre Sempervivum Stipa Thymus (var.) Watsonia Yucca ‘Golden sword’	Aethionema grandiflora Arenaria balearica Artemisia ‘Powis Castle’ Atriplex halimus Ballota pseudodictamnus Campanula persicifolia Catananche caerulea Cerastium tomentosum Cistus (Rock rose) Convolvulus (?) Digitalis lanata (Grecian foxglove) E. myrsinites E. wulfinii Gaura lindheimeri (white) Geranium ibericum H. argutifolius H. ericsmithii Hebe ‘Quicksilver’ Lauris nobilis Nerium oleander Origanum vulgare ‘Aureum’ Origanum heracleoticum Paracaryum coelestinum Perovskia ‘Blue Spire’ Phygelius ‘Moonraker’ Phlomis Salvia officinalis Satureja (Winter Savory) Santolina Sedum ‘Herbstfreude’ Thymus leucotrichus Trachelium	Achillea ‘Summer Pastels’ Agastache Anchusa azura Arctotis Aristea Bachyglotis (Sunshine) Blue oat grass Ceanothus Cynara Echium Eschschoizia californica Euphorbia wulfinii Mt. Atlas daisy Nigella Phlomis Salvia Salvia argentea Sedum ‘Herbstfreude’ Sempervivum Sicilian foxglove Stachys lanata Stipa Verbascum Verbena bonariensis Yucca (var)