By Euro Weekly News Media • Published: 05 Feb 2013 • 11:35
MINI GARDENS: Several small sections can transform your garden
MOST gardens in Spain benefit from being designed as a series of interesting mini gardens.
Preferably each with its own soul and style, but integrated into an overall holistic landscape that enables great enjoyment the year round. If you have visited Cordoba you may remember the gardens of the VianaPalace. Another large scale example are the gardens of the Alhambra or Alcazaba in Sevilla.
But you don’t need a large garden to do this. Any house with land on four sides even if only four to six metres on one or two sides lends itself to five distinct gardens. One on each side and a fifth under a covered terrace. The latter can be attractive all year round with shade from the high sun in the summer and the warmth of the low winter sun.
Such a terrace garden immediately integrates the house into the garden.
Success in having a number of integrated mini gardens is choosing what to have in each area and how you separate them. Possible types of mini garden include the following.
As we say in our writings, there is so much creativity required in creating a master plan for your garden before one thinks about what plants to buy and plant. Our book ‘Your Garden in Spain’ will help you on your way. We can be contacted on yourgardeninspain@hotmail.com.
Clodagh and Dick Handscombe www.gardenspain.com
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