Inspiration From a Mediterranean Garden

A Canadian garden draws on gardens from similar climates

Today ’s photograph are from Cherry Ong ’s recent visit to Butchart Gardens in British Columbia , Canada . You ’ve believably seen photograph of parts of the garden , but Cherry is treating us to a looking at some less visited ( but no less beautiful ) areas of the garden . She indite :

These photos are from the Mediterranean Garden , which is sadly found adjacent to the parking lot and not frequented by the hordes like the Sunken Garden or Italian Garden . The description of the garden on the folder reads : “ A festivity of our mild clime , this unusual garden features many drouth resistant plants from various orbit of the public that share standardised growing condition to ours . ”

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Mediterranean - type climate are establish in only a few places in the world : around the Mediterranean Sea ( plain ) , central Chile , westerly South Africa , southwesterly Australia , and the west coast of North America . These climates are symbolise by dry summers and blotto wintertime , and a typical lot of plants thrives in those shape . model at the edge of the North American zone of Mediterranean climate , British Columbia is a natural home to fete the unequalled plant and gardens of this climate type .

This beautiful planting of tropical plant boast the striking Sarian elephant ear ( Alocasia‘Sarian ’ , Zones 9–11 ) .

Closeup ofAlocasia‘Sarian ’

agave are native to the arid American West , but they adapt well to milder climates such as in British Columbia .

Planting for drought tolerance does n’t have to be deadening ! Just keep your distance , as these century plant and burry pear ( Opuntiaspp . ) can do some damage . The good affair about that is that cervid and rabbit go away them alone .

Yuccas are another Greco-Roman plant for dry climates . By featuring unlike metal money and cultivar , this planting gets a lot of interest out of just yucca .

Echeveria ( Echeveriasp . , Zones 10–11 ) have boom in popularity in recent years , but usually as houseplants or in containers . They reckon amazing found out en masse like this . If you require to make a planting like this in a climate with cold-blooded wintertime , remember that attender succulents can easily be planted alfresco in the summer , then bring in to a gay windowsill for the wintertime before being used again the next year .

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