Gardening

This month’s Plant of the Month usually comes as a Christmas present in a box, complete with pot and growing instructions and, after a month, is left to languish and

WITH ONLY a few weeks to Christmas and facing the prospect of friends and relations coming here to visit, now is a good time to consider what plants will be

By JEAN CLAUDE DEFRANCE Yet the appeal of the Mediterranean or indigenous garden is vast. Once established, it will live and prosper indefinitely on seasonal rainfall alone. It requires much

THE USE of xerophytic plants, which are drought adapted plants, is an increasingly popular topic in the gardening world, and a timely subject to consider during a summer of water

I DO NOT mean this disparagingly, but if there had to be a standard garden, seen right around the Mediterranean, it would have a lawn with a palm tree in

Marvellous Mirabilis Plants that come out in the evening or at night are a real problem for garden centres because customers mostly choose plants that are in flower. For that

SUMMER CAN be disappointing, especially if you don’t live here for a full gardening year. Even with full irrigation, many plants more or less stand still during July and August.

By JEAN CLAUDE DEFRANCE GIVEN THE likely shortage of water this summer, I take no pleasure in repeating what I have said for years now; that we should not be