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June 7, 2018

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)

 
 

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