Re: Rosemary
I am growing a hedge of Rosemary 'Miss Jessup's Upright' which is about 6
metres long and about 1.20 m high, which separates the sunny rock garden
from what I call my mini-woodland ,(it's really not mini- but tiny). On the
sunny side it consists of all the medit-plants : salvia officinalis with
small leaves (lots),all types of thyme, lavendula stoechas
'pappillon',helychrisum rosmarinifolius, phlomis 'caballero',everywhere the
purple annual allysum. etc,etc... On the "woodland-side I grow a
Liquidambar, Laburnum x wateri ' Vossii', Philadelphus 'Belle
Etoile',Viburnum Tinus ( different types), Robinia
pseudacacia 'Tortuosa', pink hydrangeas and geranium 'Wargrave pink',
Narcissus 'Tete a tete', and lots of primula veris.
Coming back to the rosemary : this June I took lots of cuttings to make the
hedge thicker underneath. I am gardening near the coast in Belgium on sandy
soil, maximum frost about - 10 * C., my garden is small. What do you think
of this combination? I love the scents as much as the flowers. My aim is to
recreate the Mediterranean in the garden, with lots of rocks and gravel
(dolomite) and different niveaus (levels). During the summer I put
everywhere yucca's and agave americana's amidst the plants. Has anyone an
idea what else I can do to recreate the Medit-feel?
By the way, my husband is greek ,that explains a lot, :-) . In Octobre we
travelled to Greece, where we visited the garden at Sparoza !
