DROWN YOUR SORRELS IN THE NEW YEAR!
Mediterranean gardeners´ would agree to hate it´s the Bermuda Buttercup (though it´s not from Bermuda and nor is it a buttercup!) also known as...
THE INTIMATE LIFE OF THE FIG
At this time of the year the trees silvered-grey bark glows in the moonlight. On misty, dripping days, its sheer bulk and...
Campo Cuttings
by Lorraine CavanaghMarch Winds and April Showers have certainly been the order of things recently and us ‘mountain dwellers’ usually suffer the worst...
SUN OR ROCK ROSES
The sun roses (cistusspp) are some of the most lovely, fleeting and delicate of flowers and yet the plants are as tough...
WHERE AN EARTH?
In our constant quest at the Garden Centre for pest control without harmful chemicals we have, at last, managed to get hold of diatomaceous...
BRUGMANSIAS and DATURAS
The Sacred ‘Visionary’ Plants – Angels or Devils?Through summer, these are some of our most beautiful perennials and shrubs yet their common names may...
SMALL POTS BUT BIG POWER PART 1!
I find the world of medical herbs fascinating. We had such a cornucopia of medicines all around us for thousands of years – Mother...
CACTUS CORNER
With the Summer Solstice beckoning as I write and temperatures soaring at last, irrigation, once again, becomes the topic...
The March of the Palm Beetle
In 1994 the palm beetle, rhynchophorus ferrugineos,or picudo rojo in Spanish, arrived in Spain. I last wrote about it in November 2007 so I...
